Out of This World Convention

A lively first-person report recounts the fourteenth World Science Fiction Convention held in New York, describing a turnout of over twelve hundred fans, professionals, and international guests. The account catalogs prominent writers, editors, artists, and cartoonists in attendance and summarizes a serious banquet address by a guest of honor alongside comic presentations that entertained the crowd. It portrays the Masquerade Ball as a vivid display of imaginative costumes and names prize winners, and notes a technical demonstration of a controversial psionic device. The narrative records elections to the organizing society, praises the volunteers who ran the event, and announces London as the next host city.