Here is some pictures from the Palais des congrès just before the opening of Anticipation.  Look at the panel room (the one with rows of chairs).  Its not a very big one and there is many of them not counting the floor where all expositions, signatures, fan events and merchants are.  It will help you [...]

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Worldcon is a big event.  Anticipation is a small Worldcon if we compare it to the ones happening in the USA but it’s still a major event in Montréal.  All things are run by volunteers who participate in the panels and expositions line any other member of the convention.  In any cases, the convention need [...]

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Human battleship is a huge hit.  The participants formed 2 teams composed if I remember well of five “ships” and 1 commander.  The “ships” are armed with plastic toys like a big inflatable hammer (everybody wants that one), swords and baseball bats.  The “ships” are then placed in line and blindfolded.  The only seeing the [...]

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The participants were Christian Sauvé, Joël Champetier and Benoît Girard. At this panel we have learned interesting tidbits about Worldcon. Worlcon’s fans follow three steps: 1 Going for the guest stars 2 Going for the panels 3 Going for friends. Also we have learned what is FILK. Its, in fact, an error in convention guide [...]

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Our first panel was directed by Kim Binsted(scientist) and Peter Watts(writer). It was crowded: people were standing in the back. Peter Watts is very good speaker and was good at this panel. Kim gave him a nice counterpoint. We love to look at Kim’s work about AI. The panel was centered on the following question: [...]

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