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Readercon is one of the best-curated sci-fi/fantasy conventions in America. You probably don’t know about it. Unless you have a bald spot and a ponytail, in which case you’re reading this with Tor and cackling about how everybody’s going to have bald-spotted ponytails by 2254. You’re also part of a privileged breed, the special kind that Readercon’s made for: you love speculative fiction, and you actually read books