X-Message-Number: 19836 From: "Ben Best" <> Subject: Cryonics at San Jose WorldCon Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 04:29:36 -0700 Cryonics at San Jose WorldCon The 2002 World Science Fiction Convention (WorldCon) is being held in San Jose Thursday, August 29th to Monday, September 2nd: http://www.conjose.org/ For many years I have used WorldCons as a place to promote cryonics partly because of the limited success I have had and partly because of the fun I have had doing so. It has seemed less fun recently, but the fact that the 2003 WorldCon is being held in my hometown of Toronto, Canada http://www.torcon3.on.ca/ and the fact that San Jose (Silicon Valley) has the highest concentration of cryonicists in the world means that I will be attending the 2002 WorldCon and having cryonics room parties. My cryonics/life-extension "outreach" room parties will be held on the evenings of Thursday, August 29th & Friday, August 30th from 9pm - 1or2am in the Fairmont Hotel (the party hotel). All cryonicists, whether attending the WorldCon or not, are invited (*requested*) to attend -- to talk to the guests and to socialize. In past years I have also had a cryonicists-only "inreach" party on Saturday evening. I will have one this year if there is sufficient interest. I would like to hear from other cryonicists or fellow travelers who might be coming to my room party or participating in the WorldCon program. I am wondering if anyone succeeded in creating a panel with a life-extension or cryonics-related or nanotechnology theme. I was completely stonewalled in my attempts to create a panel or be on a panel -- the worst treatment I have ever received from a WorldCon program committee (I got a worse treatment years ago from a Toronto Con committee). Send e-mail to me at with the subject line WORLDCON if you think you might want to come or have something to say. I will be posting the room number in the Fairmont Hotel where the parties will be held, but can e-mail this information to people who send me an e-mail address. -- Ben Best Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=19836