Well, I thought I was going to have another week to sort out my site selection ballot for 2017, but it appears I have until midnight PDT tomorrow to get my ballot emailed in. I've bought a token so all I need to do is print off the ballot at work tomorrow, sign it and send it in ( Read more... )

Yesterday Loncon 3 announced that they had invited Jonathan Ross to be Hugo MC. Who is Jonathan Ross? He's a TV presenter cut from the same sort of cloth as Howard Stern - the same sort of puerile boy's club humor, "outrageous" boundary pushing (and the inevitable apology when it goes too far), and the casual sexism that seems to think "I'd fuck ( Read more... )

I'm not sure when I started thinking that WFC was going to be a train wreck. I'd certainly heard that the last UK WFC wasn't run well and the same team was running this one. I bought an early membership anyway.

I wasn't there and sometimes you just have to be there to really get the gun-shy. Like Torcon - I was at Torcon and it was a mess of epic ( Read more... )

It's the internet, and there's been a lot of talk in the wake of Chicon 7. I'm sure it's ably recapped elsewhere, so let's talk about how I feel.

Rene Walling, Readercon Creeper, was at Chicon. He was making creepy comments while tending bar at one of the parties and moaning to pretty and talented authors about how difficult the aftermath of ( Read more... )

Ok, I don't really have a heck of a lot to say about individual readings. Either you like them or you don't. (I'd much rather go to a reading than a panel or an interview ( Read more... )

I did not take good notes during the panel, so these are my scattered recollections.

The scheduled panelists were:

Jan Bogstad (m)
David Brin
Ruhan Zhao
Emily JiangSo we've got two Anglo-American, one Chinese-American and one Chinese panelist and a rather distinct lack of Indians. Emily Jiang also noticed this and had invited Angeli Primlani to ( Read more... )