Poznan

Pyrcon (in Poznan, Poland) may be the largest convention we've been to, with about 25.000 in attendance.  Mostly game-players and media, but thousands of readers as well. 

Yesterday I was interviewed by , and took questions from the audience, a couple of hundred people, which only took up a small corner in the front of the huge exhibition tent..   There was a panel discussion on __ with __ and ___. 

In the morning, Gay and I had wandered around Poznan for awhile, and had a good lunch at a deli, which was actually a pretty large quiet restaurant.  A tender beefsteak with good small potatoes.  They serve lots of interesting relishes and preserves with every meal.

The line to get into the convention was hundreds of people long, looping through another hundred or so milling around.  We were able to bypass it, going through a VIP entrance.

The convention center is large by any standard.  Parking for 2000 cars.   Sixteen pavilion buildings.  Modern electronic facilities that seem to work better than American ones.  The website doesn't say how old it is, but it can't be more than a couple of years.

Good beer!  Budweiser hasn't discovered them.

An interesting panel that examined the claim that sf writers are either architects or gardeners.  I courageously said I was both, though maybe I'm really neither.

Better run off to breakfast.  Lots of coffee.  Tryong to keep ahead of this unnatural desire to sleep.

Joe