I was pretty excited to be at the Hugos ceremony and was so busy tweeting that and all else that was going on that I did entirely miss the cover of Horn flash up in the introductory video piece. Luckily it can be found on YouTube so I got to shout Horn! like those around me at our room party later. Aside from which, the video is really awesome and ( Read more... )

I sat down to start blogging about Worldcon but I'm not sure I'm entirely in a headspace to do that. Chances are many people bumping into me will think I am vague or bad at Maths (I'm not! I'm an engineer but Friday for some reason I lost my ability to add!). This is unlike any con I've ever been to. It's ... well we're not in Kansas anymore, Toto ( Read more... )

Cat Sparks has launched a campaign to bring Peter Watts to Aussiecon 4. Her message is below.


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Aussiecon4 has a travel livejournal set up for Aussiecon 4 members to exchange travel tips, hints and information  - a4_travel 

Twelfth Planet Press is proud to announce that the first in our 2010 publishing lineup will be a boutique collection of short stories by Marianne De Pierres under the working title of Glitter Rose Collection and will be launched at Worldcon, Melbourne 2010.


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You know, I'm not feeling great - my Crohn's might be slightly not brilliant and I had my third banana in three days, still working on that ... so I'm sitting here killing time till I can go ( Read more... )