Unicon Freecon is a free Scifi conference being held at UTS in Sydney, 26-28 October 2012.
At the end of each day, starting today, I'm going to give my reflections on the conference.
Day One, Friday Night.
I must say up front that I enjoyed the first night of Freecon, but it was not what I had expected.
Seeing that it's being run on a University campus, and sponsored by a Uni group, I was expecting a lot of Uni aged people. But it was mostly people my age and older.
Because it's a free conference and I knew there were over fifty people registered I was expecting at least 30-40 people there on the first night. But there were 14.
One of the 14 was a man who was at the first ever Australian Scifi Conference held in Sydney in 1952. What he had to say was very interesting. One thing that he talked about, which blew my mind, was how they seemed to spend as much time fighting over differences if Scifi Ideology as they did in working together to promote there love of it. I didn't even know you could have such divisive views on Scifi, so I learnt something.
We had an open discussion on 'What is Scifi?' with a number of interesting views put forward, but no fights.
There are 12 short stories posted on the conference wall. These are the entrants in the Freecon short story contest. Apart from mine, I found three of them very interesting. One is a very different take on Technology gone wrong. The second is a time travel story with time travel being used in an interesting way that I would not have thought of. The third is a well written story about two people meeting on an asteroid.
I'm looking forward to day two.
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