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[bluedevi]

I was up marking coursework till nearly 3am last night and now my head is full of wool and my neck feels simultaneously stiff and too wobbly. Today was running up and down stairs chasing more coursework, sending the students out to buy plastic folders and find me the hole punch because surely you're not submitting THAT? It's all in but one now,

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[coalescent]

though he did win a bunch of awards for Air,

And The Child Garden won the Clarke Award, and "The Unconquered Country" won a World Fantasy Award. (I thought Was had as well, but apparently not.) But yes, he's ace. Are you aware of his recent (by which I mean post-Air) mainstream novel, The King's Last Song? Worth a look.

[bluedevi]

I am now, thank you! It Shall Be Mine.

[coalescent]

Rumour has it that at some point in the next eighteen months there will be a proper short story collection from Tachyon, too, which will be roughly the most essential thing ever. (At the moment, the only collected short fiction is Unconquered Countries, which (a) was published in about 1993 and (b) is out of print.)

[several_bees]

When I was in Trinity Netsoc we invited him over to give a talk about 253 and online fiction (yes, it was the late nineties, how can you tell?)

Oh dear, I'm reading livejournal at the moment in order to put off finishing the citations for my thesis essay on, er, online fiction. I was hoping to send it in tonight, only a week or so after I was supposed; am I actually ten years too late?

[bluedevi]

It was more the mention of 'Netsoc' that made me write that, actually. A college society whose purpose was to go 'ooh cool' at the brand-new shiny internet. These days it'd be like having - I dunno - a Lampshade Society or maybe a Spoon Society.

We gave away shell accounts, too, and most members didn't have net access at home.

[celestialweasel]

Or a 'fridge society'. "Martin Banks used to pop up every so often in technology journalists' online discussions to remind us all that once upon a time there were three refrigerator magazines. They ran features on how best to arrange food, how long to keep it, storage techniques, and, I imagine, quirky little pieces about whether the light stays on when you close the door." - quoted from http://allsoftmagazines.com/

[bluedevi]

Oh, and congratulations on being so close to the end!

[killalla]

If you guys are going to be heading to Bristol on Saturday, give me a call - I'm catching a train out there in the morning and will be wandering around with some friends.

[bluedevi]

We're going down on Friday, but we'll certainly be doing some wandering around and looking at things on Saturday...

I haven't been to Bristol before. The fact that I'm all enthused about this mini-break shows how itchy my feet are.

[minnesattva]

Andrew is almost but not quite sufficiently dedicated to go to the Bristol Comics Expo. He's still a bit stricken that he's not going, but then he remembers it's in Bristol... :-) Hope you have a good time.

[shewho]

a dark version of the wizard of oz, you say? obsessive curiousity piqued!

say hello to bristol for me. can you go to the hatchet and request kate bush in an irritating fashion too? that'd be ace :)