Mythcon 20 - July 28-31, 1989
Mythcon 20
Mythic Elements in Fantasy
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia
July 28-31, 1989
Vancouver, British Columbia
July 28-31, 1989
Mythic Elements in Fantasy
Guests of Honor
Guy Gavriel Kay, fantasy author
Raymond H. Thompson, Arthurian scholar
Raymond H. Thompson, Arthurian scholar
Mythcon 20 marked the first Mythopoeic Conference to take place outside the USA. Vancouver is a beautiful city and the University of British Columbia campus had a wonderful park-like ambience, so it was odd to find ourselves housed in Gage Towers when hobbit holes would have felt so much more appropriate!
Loreena McKennitt and Patrick Ball were both present, playing their harps, so the music was amazing...
...and the Arthurian theme meant that Camelot was playing on a VCR in proximity to a rather silly gathering of mythies, thus birthing the original Spamalot, not that Python version by those British upstarts (kidding), but a spoof of the Lerner & Loewe musical making free use of porcine references.
Closing ceremonies were hijacked, much to Glen GoodKnight's dismay (see photographic proof); chief mythie and silly man Paul Nolan Hyde and Lynn Maudlin lead the ensemble in "If Ever I Would Eat You (it wouldn't be for breakfast)."