Playgrounds of the Mind (2015)
“Lazarus Long says, ‘I’ll be there! Will you?’”
It started as a toast. Eventually I got the Heinleins’ permission to use it in a larger context.
Trantor is given (by Isaac Asimov in the Foundation stories) as the ruling planet of a galaxy-wide Empire, sited in the galactic core, 33,000 light-years away. We started the bidding twenty-one thousand years early, to avoid time pressure.
We didn’t intend to stick to the laws of the Foundation universe. Why restrict a daydream? TrantorCon w...as to be the ultimate convention, attended by every intelligent species anyone ever wrote about, with every technology available to add to the fun. Something like the party at the end of Robert Heinlein’s The Number of the Beast.
I got Marilyn involved. We designated ourselves the Bidding Committee. Randall Garrett became intrigued. Ultimately we gathered others: Guest of Honor: HARI SELDON Fan Guest of Honor: ISAAC ASIMOV Toastmaster: LIEUTENANT COMMANDER SPOCK* The Committee Chairbeings: LARRY NIVEN; FUZZY PINK* Secretary: FRANK CATALANO Publications: RANDALL GARRETT Artwork: MIKE MERENBACH We wrested promises from several Big Name Writers: they will attend the TrantorCon “barring acts of God.”MoreLess
It started as a toast. Eventually I got the Heinleins’ permission to use it in a larger context.
Trantor is given (by Isaac Asimov in the Foundation stories) as the ruling planet of a galaxy-wide Empire, sited in the galactic core, 33,000 light-years away. We started the bidding twenty-one thousand years early, to avoid time pressure.
We didn’t intend to stick to the laws of the Foundation universe. Why restrict a daydream? TrantorCon w...as to be the ultimate convention, attended by every intelligent species anyone ever wrote about, with every technology available to add to the fun. Something like the party at the end of Robert Heinlein’s The Number of the Beast.
I got Marilyn involved. We designated ourselves the Bidding Committee. Randall Garrett became intrigued. Ultimately we gathered others: Guest of Honor: HARI SELDON Fan Guest of Honor: ISAAC ASIMOV Toastmaster: LIEUTENANT COMMANDER SPOCK* The Committee Chairbeings: LARRY NIVEN; FUZZY PINK* Secretary: FRANK CATALANO Publications: RANDALL GARRETT Artwork: MIKE MERENBACH We wrested promises from several Big Name Writers: they will attend the TrantorCon “barring acts of God.”MoreLess
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