I'm pretty cynical about fandom. Or more accurately, what we recognize as fandom. I get the impression, from reading things like this and other stories, that it's becoming like the resistance groups in Monty Python's Life of Brien.
On the other hand, I disagree with norabombay that mid sized literary Cons are dying. Or, maybe they are, and I just don't see the bad ones. I really enjoyed FenCon I, which was a totally new Con in the Dallas Fort-Worth area. It had a very few rough edges, but it really was pulled off remarkably well. So even if older Cons are a rotting morass of drama and personality conflicts, new ones are springing up.
I think the biggest issue I have is the feeling that I'll never actually qualify as a respectable fan. Even as reader (of some books, and having skipped over many "classics"), dancer, occasional con-goer and all that, I still never lived through the 60s and 70s, never read a Fanzine, and I feel like until the last fan of that Era is dead fandom as a group will try to act as if that's what still going on.
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Date: 2004-12-18 11:34 pm (UTC)On the other hand, I disagree with
I think the biggest issue I have is the feeling that I'll never actually qualify as a respectable fan. Even as reader (of some books, and having skipped over many "classics"), dancer, occasional con-goer and all that, I still never lived through the 60s and 70s, never read a Fanzine, and I feel like until the last fan of that Era is dead fandom as a group will try to act as if that's what still going on.