What's New (last updated May 31, 2000)

... but the web page lingers on. For a link to this year's convention, see http://www.orycon.org/.

Thanks to Charles DeVore, we have photos of costumes from the Masquerade (and others).

• What: OryCon 22, Portland's premiere science fiction convention
• When: November 17-19, 2000 (Note: Not the usual Veteran's Day weekend!)
• Where: The Doubletree Hotel Portland Columbia River in Portland, Oregon.
• OryCon 22 will be a weaponless convention. Smoking will be allowed in designated areas only.

OryCon offers programming, workshops, small group discussions, an art show, a dealers' room, filking, dances, gaming, masquerade, a video program, the Susan Petrey Scholarship auction, and much more!

• OryCon's main hotel is full. Here are some of the other hotels in the area:

  DoubleTree Jantzen Beach 503-283-4466
  Oxford Suites 800-548-7848
  Red Lion Inn at the Quay 503-285-0636
  Shilo Inn, Vancouver, WA
  Fort Motel, Vancouver, WA
  Days Inn, Portland, OR
  Holiday Inn, Portland, OR 503-283-8000
  Best Western, Portland, OR 503-286-9600

• Volunteers are needed on Thursday to help set up the art show. Click here for details.
• The nearly final list of program participants is now available.
• A PDB file of the OryCon program is now available for use on your Palm or compatible handheld computer.

• Kara Dalkey & John Barnes - Writers
• Gordon Van Gelder - Editor
• Dr. Robert Forward - Science
• Gail Butler - Artist
• Larry Warner - Music
• Richard Dansky - Gaming

• Memberships in OryCon 22 will cost $50 at the convention. Memberships are no longer available by mail or at Wrigley-Cross Books (1809 NE 39th) or Future Dreams (1800 East Burnside).
• Children ages 6-12 are half price. Children 5 and under are free. Children must be accompanied by an adult with a membership.
• Because of space limitations at the hotel, memberships will be limited to a total of 1600. Once we've sold that many, we'll start turning people away at the door. So get your memberships early!
• As of November 10 we have processed 1258 memberships.
• If you're wondering if you have your membership yet, you can search our current membership list.

• Preliminary Program and Index of Program Participants (added 11/2)
• Progress Report #1 (HTML format) -- (PDF format, 600KB)
• Progress Report #2 (HTML format) -- (PDF format, 800KB)
• Lost and Found items from OryCon 21

• Internet: Click here for a committee list with e-mail addresses for individual committee members.
• Postal: OryCon 22, PO Box 5703, Portland, Oregon 97228
• Telephone: (503) 774-1043

Click here for information on committee meetings.

"OryCon" and "OSFCI" are service marks of Oregon Science Fiction Conventions, Inc.

This page created and maintained by David D. Levine, dlevine@spiritone.com.

Illustrations by Cristopher Decker.