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 

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