The Wii made a splash, to be sure - everyone had to have that conversation at least once - but as what John Tynes might call a " mutation," it's difficult to compare it straight across with machines so divergent from it philosophically.
I was surprised to hear from so many people that they felt that Microsoft had "won" E3, even people for whom consoles must universally emerge from the mysterious east. There's supposed to be another guest speaker, but whenever I ask who it is, people always remember something important that they have to do right at that moment. In any case, I'm on a couple writing workshops. I visited the event last year as part of my "Elemenstation Of The West" signing tour, and before I met these people I was under the impression that I liked books quite a lot. Aficionados of the event - though they prefer to be called afictionados - suggest that the annual affair represents the true "Home Of The Tome," and I am inclined to believe them. Dog-eared copies from Steven Brust's Taltos Cycle or signed offerings from Lois McMaster Bujold circulate like holy relics. It caters to what you might call the "hardcore reader," a population scientists would study with intensity if they knew it existed.
At no point is a Geiger Counter required, unless it is used exclusively as an accessory for a futuristic costume. I've been asked to speak at local lit-con Readiation, whose dangerous-sounding name belies a friendly, relatively tame event.
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