Since I'm intentionally not publishing an email address here at the moment and my current email setup doesn't seem to be 100% reliable for incoming mail, I'm creating this entry for people who don't have an email address for me or do have one but suspect that emails aren't getting through ( Read more... )

... to everyone reading this, and best wishes for 2020, from Peter Wilkinson

In something which has developed into a tradition of many years' standing, I have set up a temporary public friends group of LJs and LJ feeds of people attending Dublin 2019: an Irish Worldcon ( Read more... )

to everyone reading this, from Peter Wilkinson.

While we refer to some earlier political entities as empires, the one that originated and shaped the concept, at least in most European-derived languages, arose rather over 2000 years ago, first as a conception of the territories it ruled and then (just over 2000 years ago and originally rather separately) in terms of its ruler as emperor. This was ( Read more... )

... and happy 2018 to everyone reading this.

This year's Hugo voting and results were interesting in a number of ways - more than I can deal with in any depth in a single post. So here is a summary, and I might come back to some of the topics later:

( Big Heart Award )

One to read, one to write and one to keep an eye on the hundred thousand Remoanista saboteurs.

Again so as not to break with something of a tradition of many years' standing, I have set up a temporary public friends group of LJs and LJ feeds of people attending Worldcon 75 ( Read more... )

best wishes towards obtaining the least appalling 2017 (and future years) available to you.