I have only a handful of books left to read of those I marked as "unread" when I joined Librarything in late 2005, so I have decided to start working through those I had already read before then but hadn't reviewed on-lline. There are a couple of thousand of them, so this is not a project I seriously intend to complete any time soon. The ordering ( Read more... )

8) Eurotemps, edited by Alec Stewart, devised by Alec Stewart and Neil Gaiman

A collection of stories setting the UK government's Department of Paranormal Resources in a European context which I picked up at Octocon, apparently a sequel to an earlier collection; a British, more bureaucratic version of the Wild Cards stories. Interesting to realise ( Read more... )

6) Different Kinds of Darkness, by David Langford ( Read more... )

15) Up Through an Empty House of Stars: Reviews and Essays 1980-2002, by David Langford

When I grow up I want to be David Langford. I think his "Critical Mass" column in White Dwarf must have been the first regular sf review column I read, over twenty years ago now; I have fond memories also of his just-about-non-sf novel The Leaky Establishment. ( Read more... )

( What I got in Glasgow )

We resume on Sunday afternoon, when I returned from lunch to find myself witnessing the official photograph of the official signing of the official contract for the new edition of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, by John Clute, Dave Langford and Peter Nicholls. I was pleased to learn later from Dave Langford that he is fairly optimistic it can ( Read more... )

It's all a bit of a blur, so far. Arrived Thursday, regstered; went (with hfnuala) to the panel on how to enjoy Worldcon; did panel on "The Digital Divide" which was efficiently and academically chaired by Renee Sieber, the other two panellists being brisingamen and surliminal; several people asked where I'd got my livejournal badge (answer: from an idea[ by thette); spent money in ( Read more... )