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If your interested in staying at the hotel the number to call is
(617) 236-5800. Singles are 60.00 a nigth and doubles are 70.00.
For a guaranteed reservation you need an american express or diners
club, although it seems they will take visa/mastercard for payment.
The earliest one can check in is 4:00pm, and if your going to be
later than 6:00pm you'll need the guaranteed reservation. They
won't hold a room past 6:00 without it.
According to the back of my confermation slip the hotel has
an indoor pool, health club, saunas, game room, whirlpool, ect.
-vicki
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| Some information about Boskone XXII:
Dates: Feb 15-17, 1985
Guests of Honor: Damon Knight & Kate Wilhelm
Guest Artist: Carl Lundgren
Guest Editor: Shawna McCarthy
Presented by:
New England Science fiction Association, Inc.
Box G, MIT Branch Post Office
Cambridge, MA 01239-0910
Place: Boston Marriott at Copley Place
36 floors; pool, Jacuzzi, health club (7AM to midnight)
Reservations at the convention rate should be made by 1/26/85
Max 5/room. Check-in by 6PM. Check-out at noon.
Parking $12/day for guests, else $24/day. 6'9" clearance
Boskone has all the function rooms for the whole weekend
Most program items are in the ballrooms on the 4th floor
Art Show and Hucksters share the large University Hall on the 3rd floor
Weapons policy: NO WEAPONS, except costume weaponry ONLY during the
Meet the Pros Party. Strictly enforced.
Program: Friday, Saturday, & Sunday
Theme is "The Future Through the Past"
SF, its history, its status, and its future. Art programming
(including a Lundgren slide show), fan panels,
science & technology talks.
Punday Sunday at 9PM, Trivia Bowl, Writers' Workshop.
Registration: 3rd floor at the top of the escalator.
Friday 1PM to 10PM, Saturday 9AM to 8PM, Sunday 10AM to 2PM
If pre-registered, bring your quickie check-in sheet.
At the door memberships are $22 (NO 1-day memberships. Sorry)
Information: 4th floor of hotel.
Friday 12noon to 10PM, Saturday 10AM to 8PM, Sunday 10AM to 3PM
Art Show: University Hall, 3rd floor
136 panels, 132 artists, Lundgren retrospective.
(Much bigger than last year.)
Setup on Thursday 2PM to 10PM (strong backs, weak minds needed!)
Open Saturday 10AM to 9PM, Sunday 10AM to 12noon, 1:30PM to 4PM
Auction Sunday 2PM
Babysitting: 5th floor. Kids under 5. Terrific staff.
Free to kids who are convention members. Includes lunch.
Friday 12noon to 12mid; Saturday 9AM to 12midnight; Sunday 9AM to 4PM
BUT closed 5PM to 6PM all 3 days
Con Suite: 3rd floor, Regis (no smoking) & Simmons (smoking) rooms
Soda, juice, junk food, munchies. No booze.
Discussion & Special Interest Groups:
Various places & times. Check at information. Start your own!
Dragonslair: Kids programming, ages 5-12. (Must be convention members)
Games, movies, kids' activities, magic show, neat stuff.
Saturday 10AM to 6PM, Sunday 10AM to 4PM
Filksinging: Both Eastern & Western style. Late all nights. Check the program.
Films: Ballroom G, 4th floor
Emphasis on high-quality & classic cinema rather than recent smashes.
Saturday night silent film with John Kiley live on the organ.
Runs to all hours of the morning.
Video program with films, fannish video, Japanese animation, more
Available in the hotel rooms
Games: Computer games with an 11/23 & some terminals
Board games of all sorts, including the official BOSKONE game
designed by our GoH, Kate Wilhelm
Open 23 hours a day.
Huckster's Room: University Hall, 3rd floor
HUGE! Bigger than ever before.
Friday 5PM to 9PM, Saturday 10AM to 6PM, Sunday 10AM to 5PM
Meet the Pros Party: Friday night 8PM to 11PM
Costume party; be imaginative.
Meet the author who gave you the costume idea.
Parties: All over the hotel.
Open parties are seeded with food & soda by the convention.
People Mover: The source of helpers - convention members who have volunteered
to help the convention run smoothly. Help out in areas such as
the Art Show, Registration, Con Suite, Films, Dragonslair, etc.
Compulsive worker? Interested in how a big convention works?
Do you have a special area of interest? VOLUNTEER TO HELP!!!!
Thank-you gift for workers over 8 hours.
(Informal note: working > 4hr/day may make the con tax deductible!)
Press: Must register. Printed or broadcast story yields a refund.
Regency Dance: see the program.
Formal dancing with cultured ladies & gentlemen (or SF fans pretending
to be such)
Scavenger Hunt: Team finding fannish junk & memorabilia. Mail to HARE::STAN
for info.
Publications: (available at the con from NESFA Press)
Late Knight Edition, by Damon Knight. This year's Boskone book
Pastiche, by Kate Wilhelm. The first-ever Boskone GAME!
Boskone XXII t-shirt. All sizes. Lundgren art.
Rekon: 3rd annual Boskone live role-playing game, going on all during the con
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| I have never heard about this convention before, is it's theme
SF or more specific, like SF writers?
I would volunteer for 5 hours each day, I could run projectors and/or VCR's
and/or Security, I have had experience in all three. Call ahead to
volunteer, or show up at the show on Friday?
Do you have to be a member of Boskone, or can you just pay at the door>
I didn't notice daily rates, what is the daily price?
Dan
PS. I like the idea of a Noter's get together!
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| Re .13
In SF Convention parlance, one joins a convention by paying a fee, and
thus becomes a member. Some conventions have supporting membership and
attending membership at different rates (typically Worldcons do this).
Boskone, being a short, regional convention, has only one membership
class: attending. You can become a member and not attend, if you want,
but you don't get a discount. If you do that, though, Boskone will send
you the program book and your name badge so you can treasure them forever.
The membership in the convention is not to be confused with membership in
the organization which sponsors or puts on the convention. Boskone is
run by the New England Science Fiction Association, Inc. (NESFA),
Box G, MIT Branch P.O., Cambridge, MA 02139-0910.
Dave C.
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