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Go West Venerable Clarion

Starting with next year’s workshop, the Clarion Writers Workshop will move from its long-time home at Michigan State University to the University of California, San Diego. Apparently state budget cuts forced MSU to reduce support for the workshop. For those of you who don’t know, the Clarion Writers Workshop trains budding science fiction and fantasy […]

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New Genre Events at Disney

Haunted Fun for FamiliesOn Sept. 29, Disneyland Resort in Orlando will start a new seasonal event – Disney’s HalloweenTime. Continuing through Oct. 31, the event will include Disney characters in Halloween costumes, specially themed decorations, including a 12-food tall Mickey Mouse jack-o-lantern with pumpkin ears, and more. The familiar floral “Mickey Planter” below the Main […]

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Chinese Get a Disney Education

As I mentioned in the “Attraction Update” column of the July 2006 issue of The Genre Traveler, Hong Kong Disneyland has been having some marketing issues. Bill Ernest, managing director of the theme park, feels this may be due to many Chinese tourists not understanding the park’s themes ‘because they didn’t grow up with Disney […]

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Virtual Travel

I’ve been hearing a lot about Second Life lately. In case you don’t know, Second Life is a 3-D virtual world with a community of more than 350,000 “residents” who live a virtual life through animated avatars. In fact, during one of the panels at Worldcon last month, an audience member brought the subject up […]

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