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“The World Science Fiction Convention of 2080”: An Exegesis

Cover of Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine, Oct. 1980, featuring an illustration of "The World SF Convention of 2080"

I want to come to recent events in another way.  All of this reminds me of a story that  I want do a deep dive on: “The World Science Fiction Convention of 2080” by Ian Watson (published in 1980). This is a short, very inside baseball story of Worldcon, Worldcon fandom and science fiction, and it is quite revealing.