Lunacon 12

Lunacon 12 was a convention held April 11-14, 1969 at the Hotel McAlpin in Manhattan, NY in meeting rooms on the 24th floor (away from the tourists). The GoH was Robert A. W. Lowndes.

Attendance was 585 (the largest regional of the time) and the chairman was Ted White.

Lowndes' speech was on the effectiveness of fans in influencing the SF field and his advice boiled down to: write letters to the magazines, and vote for the Hugos. He also entertained the audience by reading what Charlie Brown in Locus referred to as "some great excerpts from awful stories." Other events included

• a mystery panel with Lester del Rey, Ted White, Norman Spinrad, Alexei Panshin, Robert Silverberg, and Charlie Brown
• a "Women in SF" panel with Carol Carr, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and Anne McCaffrey
• a speech by Isaac Asimov
• interviews with Tom Disch and Norman Spinrad by Terry Carr
• many parties , including bid parties for Boston in 71 and Washington in '71, who were bidding for the 1971 Worldcon
• one of the last of the Eastercon parties was also held, with the demise of FISTFA there was no longer a sponsoring group

• Lunacon 12 publications and photos on fanac.org

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