I have created an event to celebrate the life and work of Iain Banks by doing Graham Park's walk from Walking on Glass. Please feel free to pass this on to your friends that might be interested and in London that day: Saturday 29th June ( Read more... )

Today is World Book Day, and it also happens to be the 26th anniversary of the publication of a book that changed my life. Iain M Banks’s first book, the first published Culture novel, Consider Phlebas, came out in hardback on 23rd April 1987. I did not read it then, but did a few years later after getting to it via his Iain Banks work, and it got ( Read more... )

I can't make it, but others might like to know about this ( Read more... )

Recording dates for a "hilarious new sitcom starring Nicholas Lyndhurst set on a hopeless new space colony." have been announced ( Read more... )

Cambridge people may be interested to know that booking has opened for the 2012 Cambridge Science Festival. Programme available at http://www.cam.ac.uk/sciencefestival/Read more... )

I usually just post Hitchhiker's new at zz9 but two things have been announced this week that make 2012 something to look forward to even more.

Douglas Adams's 60th birthday party - http://douglasadamstheparty.com/
and
The Hitchhiker's Live Tour - Leave a comment  1 

ZZ9 will be slouching around tomorrow. Meeting at Liverpool Street station at 13:00 near the main entrance to the underground (opposite platforms 3&4).

Sounds interesting - a radio panel game with a science fictional twist.
Tickets: http://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/shows/shows/how_to_save_the_world

The dragon bag came from bob_bassetI got it in October 2006, and since then he has set up a website at http://bobbasset.com/ and sells on eBay via http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/ ( Read more... )

I had an email at work with this subject heading. All I could think of was that it looked like something the marketing division of Sirius Cybernetics would come up with to do with lifts not just going up and down.