11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. — Sunday session of the Mass Book Signing at Borders, on State Street, just a couple of blocks away.
Still Pending: The Zero G, Lunar G and Martian G Experience. As of January 19, 2005, we are still negotiating with the Zero Gravity Corporation to provide SFWA members attending the Nebula weekend in Chicago with a chance to experience Zero Gravity, lunar gravity and Martian gravity on Sunday. If 25 persons sign up for the flight, ZeroG, the first commercial provider of such flights, will fly their newly refurbished plane to Chicago and provide the training, the ride and the one day event. The cost will not be low, but it will be for a once-in-a-lifetime experience. It probably will cost $4,400 per person if 25 sign up, or $3,500 if 52 sign up (in which case there would be a second flight). But you will get to do it with your colleagues. (If it is to provide background for a possible story, it might even be tax deductible; ask your accountant.)