So this past weekend (Black Friday Weekend) I was at LosCon 35. And overall I have to say it was much better than my first experience there, which was LosCon 34.

Some interesting points I picked up:

• Science Fiction commonly doesn’t stay on TV, because TV networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) will only air Sci Fi that has been produced in such a way that the “average” person can get it. However the “average” person won’t like it because its Sci Fi, and the Sci Fi people won’t like it because its been to generalized, for the “average” person.
• Wil Wheaton (yes I can say I actually met him) doesn’t like for one person to ask to many questions, “Sorry can you repeat that, I tuned you out there for a second.”
• While Larry Niven may not understand being an author in the world of New Media (as far as I can tell, he doesn’t even have a website that is actually his) I do have to give him special Kudos for eating his breakfast Sunday morning somewhere that anyone could come up and ask him questions.
• Larry Niven looks very much in Real Life as he did when he visited Second Life once.

After I managed to get this it occurred to me, that I should have also asked D.C. Fontana and David Gerrold for their autographs on the same piece of paper also. Regrettably, I didn’t see either of them, after I got Wil’s autograph: