Apropos of the forthcoming Eastercon, I've been thinking of doing some variant on this image for a while.


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I'm back from Eastercon. It was a good, fairly tranquil weekend: lots of reunions with rarely-seen friends, including some from Toronto, some excellent lectures, some good panels.

Top tip for designing convention panel discussion questions: don't make it a yes-or-no question.

And then the other three days of Eastercon happened, and we all went home again ( Read more... )

Two hours of Bank Holiday weekend traffic delays, and an hour of going in circles in Bradford later, I made it to Eastercon. Not nearly enough of us are able to stay at the con hotel this year, but at least there are shuttles to take us back and forth ( Read more... )

I went back to Glasgow again last weekend, the second time in a year, both times with events held in the same time, both times for science fiction conventions. The world of British SF fandom doesn't actually revolve exclusively around Glasgow; there was simply efficiency in organized both WorldCon and Eastercon in the same place. The British ( Read more... )