There's a Place for Us  Attention Earthlings: Your planet sucks
Amanda Halperin  Two weekends ago, the 41st annual Minicon at
the Sheraton Bloomington attracted some 600 sci-fi and fantasy
fans. We took the opportunity to ask a few Miniconners the
question: Since Earth is such a  mess right now, what world
would you rather inhabit?  Troy Paton, Stillwater The Star Trek
world—Earth or any of the major developed Federation
worlds—would be good, because you've got it made. You go to your
living room and have anything you want cooked up. You have
yourself teleported halfway across the planet. I'm thinking
about conveniences, here.  Marty Byers, St. Paul Mars. It's
close to what we've already got, and there's no one there to
screw it up. We get there, we set up our own community, get some
better people runnin' it, and...smooth sailing. And after that,
we move to Io. It's a moon of Jupiter, from 2001: A Space
Odyssey: "Io is not ours."  Alison Sommer, St. Peter Alderaan,
before it blew up. It's the imaginary plane