I have got a third of the way through this and still don't know what is going on, and have forgotten who the characters are, despite having read the two previous books in the series, so I'm putting it away.

I read the first in this series, the multiply award-winning Take Back Plenty four years ago, and am now at last catching up with the other two. Seasons of Plenty has the massive spaceship Plenty, commandeered by Tabitha Jute at the end of the previous book, setting off for (with any luck) Proxima Centauri, loaded with many inhabitants of different ( Read more... )

Back home, and counting the cost of my visit to P-Con and then to Hodges Figgis and Waterstone's on Dawson Street the next day:

( bookspoils )

7) The Discontinuity Guide: The Definitive Guide to the Worlds and Times of Doctor Who, by Paul Cornell, Martin Day and Keith Topping ( Read more... )

5) Take Back Plenty, by Colin Greenland

I realised to my embarrassment last week that I was moderating not one but two P-Con panels with Colin Greenland as a participant, and I had read perhaps one short story of his from the Moonshots anthology. Well, I had the opportunity to get the three "Plenty" novels during the con and he was kind enough to ( Read more... )

I seem to be on a number of panels at P-Con this weekend:

Saturday

10:15 Just a Minute Quiz with Paul Cornell, autopope, Leah Moore (moderated by Frank Darcy)
Panellists must speak on a given topic for 60 seconds without hesitation, deviation, or repetition

13:00 Fantastic! The Doctor Who Panel, with Paul Cornell and Colin Greenland, with me moderating ( Read more... )