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1047.0. "Balticon 26" by STAR::CANTOR (Have pun, will babble.) Sat Jan 25 1992 15:45

SF-LOVERS Digest           Tuesday, 21 Jan 1992        Volume 17 : Issue 19

                            A B S T R A C T

Date: 7 Jan 92 11:03:06 GMT
From: [email protected] (The Secret Man)
Reply-to: [email protected]
Subject: BALTICON 26, April 17-19, 1992, Hunt Valley MD, be there, aloha

BALTICON 26 will be held on Easter weekend (as always), April 17-19, 1992,
at the Hunt Valley Marriott in Hunt Valley, Maryland (like last year, and
the year before).  The address is 245 Shawan Road, Hunt Valley, MD 21031;
the telephone number for the hotel is 410-785-7000.  Rates will be $74.00
per night for up to four people.  Don't forget to mention BALTICON if you
call the hotel directly.

You can contact the Baltimore Science Fiction Society at 410-JOE-BSFS, or
write to them at P.O. Box 686, Baltimore, MD 21203-0686; they will be happy
to send you the flyer (from which I am transcribing this information), as
well as such useful items as a hotel card.  (Next year they will post this
information themselves as soon as it becomes available, since they're
getting an account on this machine.  You can direct your inquiries to them
via the Miracle of Email!  Oh, unbounded rapture!)

GUESTS of Honor: All ten winners of the Compton Crook Award (including the
1991 winner) - in chronological order;

Donald Kingsbury, Christopher Rowley, David R. Palmer, Shiela Finch, Thomas
T. Thomas, Christopher Hinz, Elizabeth Moon, Josepha Sherman, Michael F.
Flynn, and the as-yet-unnamed 1991 winner (BSFS members are still reading
and getting ready to vote).

Featured Artist: Guy Frechette (the healthy-looking guy in the third row)

Memberships:
Pre-register for $27.50 until March 15, 1992, or pay more at the door.
One-day memberships will be available at the door.  Children 6-12
pre-register for $12.50 each, kids UNDER 6 are free (if accompanied by an
adult), except for kinder consigned to the Babysitting people; Babysitting
kids cost as adults.

Feel free to send your check and vitalstats (pleasePleasePLEASE send an
address for each person listed if you send in a check for multiple people,
unless you all live at the same address).  Include a fannish name (which
will be printed on your badge, 32 chars or less) if you wish, but PLEASE
include your legal name in case of emergency.  Don't send an SASE (receipts
are computer generated and stuffed into window envelopes), but postage
would be nice, if you wish.

Babysitting:
They could sure use some help.  I can hear the feet of many net.people
moving; moving away, probably, but moving.  But seriously, they want you to
know that Babysitting will only be available to you if you pre-register.
No child care for at-the-door's, because they have to schedule space and
sitters before the con.

Art Show (& Print Shop):
Rules and info available on request, but since it's after Jan 1, 1992, you
must write to;
BALTICON Art Show
Suite 600
360 Dormer Avenue
Laurel, MD 20710

Artwork MUST be pre-registered.  No entries at the show.

Contests:
There will be a Young Adult's Writing Contest again this year.  Write to
Box 686 for info, but hurry, deadline for entry is Feb 29, 1992.

Gaming:
The usual; computer games (brought by "volunteers"), roleplaying and board-
gaming space, etc.

Masquerade:
For the first time in - well, in my memory, at least - the BALTICON
Masquerade will be held on Saturday night, NOT Friday night.  The
Masquerade will begin at 8:30 PM...  Masquerade Registration will be open
on Friday from 3PM until 8PM, and again on Saturday from noon until 3PM.
For information either write to Box 686 or call Marty Gear at 301-596-3936.

Miscellaneous:
Once again (happened last year, too), Easter (and so BALTICON) and Passover
are on the same weekend.  Miriam Winder-Kelly (3309 Taney Road, Baltimore,
MD 21215) is trying to organize a potluck Sedar (sic?) to be led by members
of the Jewish Science Fiction Society (JSFS) as well as BSFS and WSFA (and
probably the WWWA, too).  Please write and let her know if you would prefer
a first night (Friday) or second night (Saturday) Sedar and what edibles
you would like to contribute.

Programming:
Oh, yeah.  They do that at this con.  If you have a brilliant idea for a
panel (and aren't hoarding it for *your* con), drop them a line, and
they'll give credit if it's used.

People:
Aside from the Compton Crook winners, these kind persons have already
promised to BE THERE;

Roger MacBride Allen, Nancy Springer, Nina Boal, Eric Kotani, S.N. Lewitt,
Alexandra Honigsberg, A.J. Austin, Brenda Clough, William Barton, Scott
Edelman, Bennet Pomerantz, Martin Wooster, Jane Donawerth, Charles
Scheffield, and Darrell Schweitzer.

Filking:
Attention Filkers & Dandelion Conspirators; Larry Warner will be at
Balticon, as well as Spencer Love and Duane Elms.  Also (hopefully), Kathy
Mar, Joey Shoji, and Mary Ellen Wessels-O'Cane.

WIN A PAINTING ON YOUR CAR!
If you own it.  If you can remove part of the body.  Et cetera.

Canadian artist Guy Frechette (the Featured Artist) will do (up to) a 36"
by 36" painting, AT THE CON (so you kind of have to have your car
there...), of your choice of an astronomical scene, a barbarian (male or
female), or a mythological creature, onto a body panel (or hood, or door,
whatever suits) of your car (and sorry, no copyrighted or trademarked
characters).

TO have this marvelous chance, you need only donate $1.00 to the B.S.F.S.
Inc.  Building Fund (yes, they own their very own building, which they are
busy shredding into itsy-bitsy pieces and restoring in their own image).
You are permitted (ooh!) to enter the drawing more than once (aah!)!  Each
$1.00 buys one chance to win!

BUT - donations must be received by March 15, 1992.

Well - that's what the flyer said.  Pretty much.  Maybe with one or two
TINY differences.

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