We're dancing on this stage all alone

[sovay]

Readercon 31 has been postponed until July 2021 because of COVID-19.

Nobody is happy about this decision, except that any other decision was irresponsible. I hope to see all of you whom I would ordinarily have seen this summer a summer from now, and healthy.

Comments

[pameladean]

Oh, gosh, I don't know why that is somehow more sobering than so many other pieces of news, but it brought me up short. I am sorry you have to wait, but since "and healthy" is the whole purpose, may it be so all around.

P.

[yhlee]

I'm sorry, Sonya--I wouldn't have been there this year anyway because of a conflicting commitment (which has gone to distance learning), but still. *Support support*

The gators have eaten this year.

[ckd]

Sometimes the right thing to do still sucks.

[gwynnega]

I was amazed to discover that I only made my hotel reservation for Readercon at the end of February. That feels like eons ago, in so many ways.

I look forward to Readercon 2021.

[nineweaving]

I could see this coming, glacially. I grieve: I've never missed a Readercon in 30 years, and it's a year-hinge for me, and a well spring. And of course I'm relieved: I would rather miss my brilliant friends this year than forever.

May we all regather next year, safe and well.

*hugs*

Nine

[cmcmck]

So many things have had to be cancelled or postponed. :o(

[asakiyume]

**I'm** happy about this decision--not about missing Readercon for a year, but about the good sense it shows, and how it saves me from having to make a tough decision (I hadn't reserved a hotel room yet)

Looking forward to seeing you face to face in better times.

[lilysea]

I'm happy for the lives saved.

I'm sad for the vendors who've lost sales, the writers who've lost opportunities to talk to other writers; the social opportunities.

I think it was 100% the right decision.