(Gonna reply to your replies soon, just had a very busy few days...)

Is anyone here planning to attend the 2017 Worldcon in Helsinki? The membership rates are about to go up, on Feb. 14, so if you're planning to go, now would be the time to sign up! I'm going to do so this week, I think (still need to check some stuff at work before I do, though).

.... will work out after all ( Read more... )

I just noticed Charles Stross will be reading. Very likely from the next Laundry novel. When I'll already have to be on a train or bus home to Germany on Sunday.

It looks like I might only make it there for the first three days - or not at all. I won't be able to get all the necessary days off work, so now I need to find a return ticket for the 17th, which may be impossible. If I can find one, I'll be at the con from 14th through 16th of August. If I can't... well, I dunno. Can you resell Worldcon tix?

Weeks late, so it's nowhere near the con site (it's somewhere near Canary Wharf instead), but the good thing about that is that it's actually pretty fucking cheap (and probably horrible, but never mind that, I'll be at the con all day anyway ( Read more... )

So relieved ( Read more... )

http://www.loncon3.org/memberships/

Worldcon's in London next year?!?!!

Shitshitshit need to find time/money to go!!!! Arrrrgh, I thought it was at least another couple of years before there'd be another one in Europe! Well, okay, nine years between 2005 and 2014... not that shocking an aberration from the ten-year pattern, really.

Fuck, where did the time go.

Despite having very little time overall in the last few weeks I discovered a new obsession. Yay! (This is actually a totally un-ironical 'yay' - I *love* new obsessions. New obsessions are like new loves ( Read more... )

My Real Life sucks to a rather amazing degree at the moment. It's amazing how fast things can go south, though I suppose I should know, having watched such a lot of Farscape... Let's just say I have legal trouble at the moment and leave it at that. I don't feel like going into it. I don't even feel like watching the last ep of Doctor Who right now ( Read more... )