The truly wonderful What Football Will be Like in 17776 has finished so now's a great time to sit down and read it.

It's a lovely little SF piece. Be warned that you'll need to watch videos and animations as well as reading text. It's worth it, though.


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It turns out that there's no Music AH for Worldcon 75 ( Read more... )

I just wrote a check, filled out a ballot, and sent in my vote for the 2019 Worldcon site selection. On one level it's good. I mean, I'm a Friend of the Dublin in 2019 bid, and they're the only bid so they're likely to win. I'm hoping that'll mean I just have a membership when they win ( Read more... )

So the other thing I did today was finish the last of the Novelettes for the Hugo Awards and noticed something sad. The Puppy-driven Chuck Tingle parody, "Alien Stripper Bones From Behind by the T-Rex" by "Stix Hiscock" (a non de plume for someone, no idea who) was significantly better-written and easier to read than John C. Wright's "An ( Read more... )

Because Vox Day and his miserable crew of people have glommed onto my disagreement with Worldcon 75 I have made my DW/LJ posts mentioning any other party private. I've done likewise with my FB posts and deleted the tweets ( Read more... )

As of today, 05 October 2016, I am no longer involved with Worldcon 75. Expect a long and angry post about this later.


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Today was the first brainstorming session for the program team for Worldcon 75, coming up next year in Helsinki!

I'm SO looking forward to this! We had a lot of good ideas going back and forth, and this was only a two hour session.


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I had a fantastic time at MidAmericon 2 in Kansas City, about which I shall write more later.

But for now, time to play catch-up, go through work emails, and try and stay awake during the day.


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MidAmericon 2, the 74th World Science Fiction Convention has released the Hugo Awards finalists.

Remember, you need to be a member of the convention to vote!


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