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The Not-So-Based BasedCon: The Unhinged Behavior Of Sci-Fi Author Robert Kroese

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Sep 07, 2025
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For the last five years, Libertarian author Robert Kroese has been running an alternative convention (BasedCon) to the mainstream industry-run cons such as WorldCon, with the intention of making it an alternative. Unfortunately, Based Con, the convention has turned into much the same liberal gatekeeping as those conventions, as the convention banned me …

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