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GUEST OF HONOR SPEECH
AT THE XIXth WORLD
SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION
SEATTLE, 1961
THE FUTURE REVISITED
Madame Chairman, Banquet Chairman, members of the World Science
Fiction Convention, friends—protocol now requires that I make a speech.
I don’t know why this is so. I’m quite sure that nothing I can say tonight
can compete with the entertainment offered last night.
There will be a question period. But right now, under a precedent
established at the First World Science Fiction Convention, I am expected to
produce some Big Thoughts giving clear evidence of a Deep Thinker.
It has been just twenty years since the last time I did this. A good
interval, I think—it gives time for a new generation of fans to grow up and
thereby reduces the likelihood that discrepancies between the Deep
Thoughts on the first occasion and the Deep Thoughts on the next occasion
will show up—it lets me speak freely.
Is there anyone here tonight who was at the Denver Convention in
1941? Do you recall what I said on that occasion?
You see? That shows you what one gets for deep
thoughts. My subject twenty years ago was THE DISCOVERY OF THE
FUTURE. My subject tonight is THE FUTURE REVISITED—and we’ll check
up a little, not too closely, on whether what I said twenty years ago still
makes sense.
If you all will be so gracious as to invite me again, twenty years from
tonight, I’ll be happy to accept. 1981, that will be—I can’t accept for 1984; Big
Brother will be watching.
We might hold the 1981 convention on the Moon, at Luna City. I
understand that there are very few conventions on the Moon—and these
affairs have been growing more and more unconventional over the years—so
we should call it Looneycon.
My subject in 1981 will be—obviously—THE FUTURE. . . WHATEVER
BECAME OF IT?
But it may be more practical—more in accordance with the wishes of
the authorities—for us to hold the 1981 Convention in some small garden
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