Salon Futura on the Hugo Awards
Mar. 7th, 2024 06:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kevin_standleeAs I fill out my 2024 Hugo Award ballot (deadline in a few days), I note that Salon Futura is eligible for Best Fanzine.
Cheryl Morgan has written an article in the latest issue ("Chengdu Revisited") that I think is well worth a look. She did give me an advance look at it, but I hasten to add that I've revealed no "insider information" to her, unless you think pointing people at the published minutes of WSFS MPC/WIP meetings is Revealing Sekrit Information. I did point out that a few places in the USA still use the Town Meeting form of government that we use for WSFS, although as she points out, few places (or none at all of which I'm aware) try to do the day-to-day governance of a town with thousands of residents using it, and that's what people who seem to think have a constantly-in-session, round-the-clock (except during Worldcon itself) online WSFS Business Meeting appear to want. Even a rules geek like me would get tired of that pretty quickly.
I read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. I have previously speculated that the Ad Hoc Congress of Free Luna was something that Heinlein was inspired to write after attending a WSFS Business Meeting. Note that even in the hyper-libertarian society posited there, they eventually ended up with an elected legislature.
Cheryl Morgan has written an article in the latest issue ("Chengdu Revisited") that I think is well worth a look. She did give me an advance look at it, but I hasten to add that I've revealed no "insider information" to her, unless you think pointing people at the published minutes of WSFS MPC/WIP meetings is Revealing Sekrit Information. I did point out that a few places in the USA still use the Town Meeting form of government that we use for WSFS, although as she points out, few places (or none at all of which I'm aware) try to do the day-to-day governance of a town with thousands of residents using it, and that's what people who seem to think have a constantly-in-session, round-the-clock (except during Worldcon itself) online WSFS Business Meeting appear to want. Even a rules geek like me would get tired of that pretty quickly.
I read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. I have previously speculated that the Ad Hoc Congress of Free Luna was something that Heinlein was inspired to write after attending a WSFS Business Meeting. Note that even in the hyper-libertarian society posited there, they eventually ended up with an elected legislature.
