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13) Murder at the Worldcon, by J.D. Crayne (FictionWise)

This is basically a country-house murder mystery except that the setting is not a country house but a mid-1960s WorldCon. To be honest the identity of the murderer is fairly obvious from the first chapter, once you work out who of the characters described in detail is the Detective, the ( Read more... )

I see that Interaction has put the opening and closing remarks from last year's Hugo ceremony on-line (49 MB WMV file). To be honest I'm not sure that this was all that smart. It is, after all, in competition in the same category as "Dalek", "Father's Day" and "The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances". While those who were there will remember it fondly ( Read more... )

I see Cheryl Morgan's roundup from Worldcon includes this comment: I’ve also heard a few complaints about Chris Priest. I’m not exactly happy about what happened at the Hugo ceremony myself, seeing as it was on my watch, so to speak. But having talked to a number of people who know Chris better than I do I’ve been reassured that he was trying to ( Read more... )

Thanks to annafdd, here and here.

A homunculus, automaton or other artificial being:

1. shall not serve a human red wine with fish,
2. must always alert a human to shortfallings in the quality of his cuisine with a mechanical cry of 'sacré bleu', and
3. shall not (through inaction) allow a human to be seen in public with mismatching gaiters and cravat.

Full text here (hat-tip pnh)

From remotepush, here, here and here.

[Edited to add: No it wasn't. Thanks to andrewducker.]

Again, bolded those of you who I've actualy met; rather a change compared with two weeks ago.

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I found this rather alarming!