Progress Report Zero Chicon 2000 The 58th World Science Fiction Convention August 31 - September 4, 2000 "Elliot Hyatt Regency Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Nessie and Contact Information: the For information about Chicon 2000, Unfathomables" contact us electronically at: E-mail: chi2000@chicon.org Artwork by Bob Eggleton World Wide Web: http://www/chicon.org/ or via Snail Mail at: Chicon 2000 PO Box 642057 Chicago IL 60664 Author Guest of Honor: Ben Bova Artist Guest of Honor: Bob Eggleton Editor Guest of Honor: Jim Baen Fan Guests of Honor: Bob and Anne Passovoy Toastmaster: Harry Turtledove "Worldcon" and "World Science Fiction Society" are registered service marks of the World Science Fiction Society, an unincorporated literary society. Chicon 2000 Progress Report Zero Author Guest of Honor: Ben Bova Ben Bova started writing fiction in the late 1940s and has been at it ever since, even while pursuing careers in journalism, aerospace, education and publishing. Author of more than eighty futuristic novels and nonfiction books, Bova became involved in the U.S. space program two years before the creation of NASA. He was editor of Analog and Omni magazines, and is President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a past president of Science-Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He has worked with Woody Allen, George Lucas and Gene Roddenberry on film and television projects, and has been a regular science guest on "CBS Morning News." He lectures on topics ranging from the craft of writing fiction to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. He is now working on a doctorate in education. In his various writings, Bova has predicted the Space Race of the 1960s, solar power satellites, electronic books, the discovery of organic chemicals in interstellar space, virtual reality, video games, the Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars"), sex in zero gravity, and the advent of international peacekeeping forces. His novels combine romance, adventure, and the highest degree of scientific accuracy to explore the impact of future technological developments on individual human beings and on society. Elliot Nessie, the UnSMOFables and YOU Roaring into the Future! SUPERB FACILITIES: Our headquarters hotel, the Hyatt Regency Chicago, has hosted two previous Worldcons and is enthusiastically waiting to welcome Chicon 2000. With 2000 sleeping rooms and 210,000 square feet of function rooms and exhibit halls, you never have to go out into the sun or rain unless you want to. MORE FUN! But you will want to go outside. One of the "most visitable" cities in North American, Chicago boasts leading museums, thousands of restaurants, classic architectural landmarks, a vast variety of stores and shops of all kinds, first-rate theater, cutting edge blues and jazz clubs, 20 miles of beaches, the Cubs and White Sox (baseball), and hundreds of acres of parks, zoos and arboretums. The Hyatt Regency Chicago, our Worldcon site is in the center of it all. This is definitely not your stereotypical "downtown". (How many past Worldcons have been held within sight of a golf course?) EASY TO GET TO: As the world's leading airline hub, Chicago is a direct flight away from most North American and many overseas cities. Moreover, thanks to intense competition, fares are generally on the lower end of the price spectrum. For the truly budget-conscious, numerous cut-rate carriers, serving most regions of the county, operate out of Midway Airport. Nonfliers can get to Chicago easily by automobile, bus or train. Chicago is a focal point of both the interstate highway system and Amtrak's rail network. READY TO ROAR! Welcome to the Year 2000, the gateway to the Third Millennium, and the beginning of the Roaring 2000s, the virtually limitless future of Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlein. It's a unique opportunity to look back at where we've been and how we can get to where we want to be a thousand years from now. Chicon 2000 Progress Report Zero MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION If you voted in the site selection balloting, you have a supporting membership. You can convert this to an attending membership by paying $40, or if you were a Chicago in 2000 pre-supporter and voted in the site selection balloting you can convert this to an attending membership by paying $25. If you voted, pre-supported, and collected 20 different Chicago in 2000 trading cards, we will convert this to an attending membership when you present your cards with no additional charge. If you didn't see us at LoneStarCon 2, fill out the membership form below, and mail it along with your 20 different Chicago in 2000 trading cards. We will mail your validated cards back to you along with your membership information. Or see us at major conventions around the U.S. to be announced on our web-site and in future Progress Reports. If you did not vote in the site selection balloting, you can purchase an attending membership for $125, or if you pre-supported Chicago in 2000 for $115. Supporting Memberships in Chicon 2000, the 58th World Science Fiction Convention are $40. These rates are good through at least March 1, 1998. A child-in-tow (no membership, under 9 years of age) must be with parents at all times. Childcare/baby-sitting rates have not been set at this time but services will be available. Children's (under 13) attending membership rates are $50 until at least March 1, 1998 (do not receive publications or have voting rights). [Webmaster's note: If you were born on or after 1 September 1987, you qualify for the $50 rate.] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Chicon 2000 PO Box 642057 Chicago IL 60664 Please Print Clearly: Name: _______________________________________________________________________ Address: ____________________________________________________________________ City:_________________ State/Country:____________ zip/Postal Code:___________ Phone: ________________ E-mail (optional) ___________________________________ 1. [_] Yes I presupported 2. [_] I enclose 20 different Chicago in 2000 trading cards 3. [_] Yes I voted 4. [_] Child's Membership -- Date of Birth __________________ Send a check or money order or write your credit card number below payable to The 58th World Science Fiction Convention and send to the above address. If you did not check any boxes $125 attending, $40 supporting. If you checked Box 1 only, $115 attending, $40 supporting. If you checked Boxes 1 & 2 & 3, you are an attending member. If you checked Boxs 1 & 3, $25 attending membership. If you checked Box 3 only, $40 attending membership. If you checked Box 4, $50 attending membership (does not receive publications or have voting rights). Amount due $__________ VISA/MC # ___________________________________________________________________ Expiration Date: ___/___/_____ Signature: ___________________________________ MUST BE POSTMARKED BY MARCH 1, 1998 TO RECEIVE THESE RATES. Please send additional information about: [_]volunteering [_]program - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Chicon 2000 Progress Report Zero Dear Dwellers in Fandemonium, Do you remember the Year 2000? Of course you do -- a dozen times over! There was the Year 2000 when men piloted their family helicopters to offices in mile-high skyscrapers. There was the Year 2000 when newlyweds honeymooned on Luna. There was the Year 2000 when, amidst universal urban decay, tiny islands of afluence lived fearfully behind massive security systems. There was the year 2000 when remnants of the human race struggled back from plague or nuclear devstation, the one when an alien hegemony ruled the Earth, the one when . . . . That none of these depictions turned out to be much like the Year 2000 that now approaches doesn't prove that science fiction is an unproductive enterprise. The goal of the genre was never to draw road maps to the future, to 2000 or any other specific year, but to show us what traveling there might be like. The shape of tomorrow is not, as conventional "futurology" would have it, the mere derivative of the matrix of today's society, economics, politics and culture. When 2000 comes, the road to 3000 will point in more directions than we can comprehend. At Chicon 2000, we are not going to ask anyone to forecast the next millennium. Rather, our theme will be to enjoy the human interactions that will bring the future into existence. Hosting the World Science Fiction Convention in 2000, the most symbolically significant year since conventions have been held, is almost a frightening honor. On behalf of the Chicago in 2000 bid committee, I want to thank everyone in the worldwide science fiction community who supported us during the past three years and who will make Chicon 2000 possible during the next three years. One point about the future that is not indeterminate is that your efforts will be the key to our success. Very truly yours, Tom Veal, Chairman, Chicon 2000 AD RATES - Progress Report #1 These ad rates are for camera ready copy. Custom artwork layouts, typesetting or special positioning and other services are available at an additional charge. The deadline for advertising and other copy for Progress Report #1 which will be issued in March 1998 is January 31, 1998. 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