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Lynn Gold
Lynn Gold has been involved with west coast fandom for three decades (eeep!). She has run many bid and at-sign parties on a tight budget, she's been on The Net since 1980, and she writes funny music (titles include "I Lost My Baby on the Information Highway," "Iguanas (They're Not Just For Breakfast Any More)," and "California Love Song"). She's a technical writer by day, a broadcast journalist during "off" hours (as opposed to the daytime hours when she's just plain "off"), and she's been known to do standup comedy. She's been Fan GOH at LosCon, Featured Filker at Leprecon, Interfilk guest at Conterpoint, and was Toastmistress at this year's Consonance.
Lynn shares her Mountain View abode with her Bichon Frise, Lady.
Programming for Lynn Gold
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| Thu | 18:00 | (A09) | 1 hr |
Online Networking Before Social Networks
Before MySpace, LinkedIn and Facebook, there were CompuServe, AOL, GEnie and USENET. Yes, people were married, divorced, friended and unfriended (remember kill files?) online before 2005. |
| Sat | 22:00 | (Sorrento2-4) | 1½ hrs |
Match Game SF
Get ready to match the fannish stars! In this SF/F-themed game show based on the popular 1970s game show, audience members will be randomly selected as contestants to match wits with our panel. The object of the game is to guess how the panel answers fill-in-the-blank questions like “Captain Kirk has the biggest ___ in Starfleet.” Winners receive prizes such as gift certificates from Worldcon dealers, book packages, or convention memberships. All contestants receive Lovely Parting Gifts (TM). Doors open immediately after the Hugos and the festivities begin half an hour later. |
| Sun | 11:30 | (D01) | 30 min |
Concert: Lynn Gold
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| Sun | 14:00 | (A02) | 1 hr |
Fifty Years of Stranger in a Strange Land
Stranger in a Strange Land was an iconic novel of the '60s and won the Hugo for Best Novel. While it was a bit ahead of its time in 1961, it seems oddly dated to many today. A discussion of one of Heinlein's first controversial novels, but not his last. |
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