{"id":72741,"date":"2025-11-23T13:14:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/?p=72741"},"modified":"2025-11-23T13:14:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:14:44","slug":"loscon-51-coming-up-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/?p=72741","title":{"rendered":"Loscon 51 Coming Up Fast!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s Sunday, just before Thanksgiving and the start of the 51st Loscon!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/loscon.org\/\">Loscon<\/a> is a science fiction and fantasy convention taking place in Los Angels, starting on Black Friday and going through to Sunday.  This year, the theme is &#8220;Tell Me a Story&#8221; and the guests of honor are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Writer &#8212; Ursula Vernon\/T. Kingfisher<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Arts &#8212; Benton Jew<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Music &#8212; Lynn Gold<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fan &#8212; Tadao Tomomatsu <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This will be the second year I&#8217;ve attended.  Melissa and I had a really great time last year.  This year, our daughter Bryanna will be joining us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is my schedule:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Name<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Date<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Time<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Location<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Autograph Session<\/td><td>29 November<\/td><td>11:30AM &#8211; 12:45PM<\/td><td>Dealer&#8217;s Room<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sci-Fi Crime Stories<\/td><td>29 November<\/td><td>1:00PM &#8211; 2:15PM<\/td><td>Newport C<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Time Travel<\/td><td>29 November<\/td><td>4:00PM &#8211; 5:15PM<\/td><td>Newport C<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>AI &amp; Science Fiction (M)<\/td><td>30 November<\/td><td>11:30AM &#8211; 12:45PM<\/td><td>Newport A<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>The Post-Scarcity Society<\/td><td>30 November<\/td><td>1:00PM &#8211; 2:15PM<\/td><td>Carmel<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Spirituality in SFF<\/td><td>30 November<\/td><td>2:30PM &#8211; 3:45PM<\/td><td>Catalina B<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Like last year, we&#8217;ll be taking the train down, traveling during Thanksgiving.  The train doesn&#8217;t go all the way to LA, so it&#8217;s bus from Bakersfield, then Uber to the hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I&#8217;m not on panels, I&#8217;ll be in the Dealer&#8217;s Room, attending the Water Dragon and Small Publishing in a Big Universe tables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We fly back on December 1st, and hopefully I&#8217;ll be able to spend part of that Monday recovering at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re in LA, stop by!  The event is held at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Sunday, just before Thanksgiving and the start of the 51st Loscon! Loscon is a science fiction and fantasy convention taking place in Los Angels, starting on Black Friday and going through to Sunday. This year, the theme is &#8220;Tell Me a Story&#8221; and the guests of honor are: This will be the second year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72742,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72741\/revisions\/72742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}