Better late than never….
The good:
- Panels like Short SF (with James Patrick Kelley and others) and Intellectual Property (with Cory Doctorow, Patrick Nielsen Hayden and Beth Meacham)
- Cory and John Scalzi and others (Scalzi’s got a list here) hanging out and talking in the dealer’s room
- A Tor party where there was actually room to breathe and move around, and where I ended up in a corner conversation circle that at various times included matociquala, truepenny, arcaedia, autopope, Ken MacLeod, pnh, John M. Ford, and others
- Excellent food at Cafe Jaffa and Tapeo
- Seeing the friends and acquaintances that I pretty much only get to see at cons
The bad:
- Most of the other panels I attended
- A subpar dealer’s room that resulted in me buying just one book, despite going in with a list of things I wanted. I still can’t believe that there were no copies of wicked_wish‘s Four and Twenty Blackbirds to be found
- Hotel guests who think it’s a good idea to lock their small yippy dog in the room and then head out for the evening
- A shorter single malt list at the hotel bar, and their then being out of Lagavulin on top of that
- A Boskone with no suricattus. That’s just wrong.
The rest:
- Next year’s Boskone is going to be in a hotel that’s not even open yet, and isn’t in the Back Bay area of the city or conveniently attached to a large mall. That, combined with a list of guests that’s not yet looking very impressive (especially compared to this year), may mean I’m passing on Boskone next year.
- It may have been cold, but the lack of blizzards was a definite plus.