Cowtown Comes to Beantown
The Kansas City bid for the 59th World Science Fiction Convention
Welcome to the official home of Kansas City in Boston in 2001, also known as KC in Boston in 2K(+1),
the Kansas City bid to host the 2001 WorldCon in Boston, Massachusetts.
Kansas City did not have enough hotel rooms to host the 58th World Science
Fiction Convention in 2000, but facilities have recently become available
in Boston for 2001. Please help us to found the first ever, NorEasAmeriCon (NEAC), to
be held in Boston on Labor Day weekend (Thursday, August 30 through Monday,
September 3) in 2001.
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In 1991, a group of Kansas City fans started KCin2K, a bid to host the 58th World Science Fiction Convention in Kansas City in the year 2000. The bid for 2000 depended on the building of two new convention center hotels, projects that were promised, but never happened. Unable to produce the quality Worldcon that they intended, in the spring of 1996 KCIN2K conceded the 2000 Worldcon to the competing Chicago bid.
On December 26th, 1997, the Boston in 2001 bid for the 59th World Science Fiction Convention announced that they would not host a convention in the City of Boston. Instead they are bidding to host the 2001 Worldcon in Orlando, Florida. This opened the possibility of Kansas City hosting the Worldcon in Boston. A group of Kansas City fans mobilized and on December 31, 1997 Kansas City in Boston in 2001, a bid to host the 59th World Science Fiction Convention, became a reality. KC in Boston in 2K(+1) is a new bid that includes new members plus some members from both MidAmeriCon and and KCIN2K. The members of the Bid Committee include two former Worldcon Chairpeople as well as having served in various positions on conventions ranging from 400 to 7,000.
Thanks for supporting the bid at Anaconism, Minicon, Name-That-Con,Demicon, Conestoga, Inconjunction, and ConQuesT.Look for our bid parties at Bucconeer.
If you wish to join us in this mad, grand adventure (or exercise in gumdrops against the Empire, some would call it), we'd love to have you along for the ride. If nothing else, we guarantee you'll have a lot more fun. We Don't Morally Censure, We Just Want the Money
Presupporting: $5.00
Preopposing: $10.00
Pre-Industrial: $20.00
Postmodern: $50.00
Send to: KC in Boston in 2K(+1), P.O. Box 2000, Lee's Summit, MO 64063
For details contact: kcinboston2001@oocities.com
Links to Future Worldcons
and NASFiCs
Conucopia:
1999 North American Science Fiction Convention
Aussiecon
Three: the 57th World Science Fiction Convention
Chicon
2000: the 58th World Science Fiction Convention
Links to competing bids
for 2001
Boston for Orlando in 2001 Worldcon Bid
Philladelphia
in 2001: The Millennium PhilconSF Convention®
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