Myself and S. M. Stirling, lost in contemplation about Group Dynamics in Speculative Fiction.
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Princess Annelise prepares for her entrance
Alice (a.k.a. Princess Annelise, ruler of the Barbieverse), getting ready for the Westercon Masquerade.
Blogging Westercon – Sunday
UPDATE: Now with links! First, a welcome to any readers finding their way here from Kathryn Cramer’s blog! I ran into her at a panel this afternoon and she told me she’d linked to my coverage of Westercon–and sure enough, I see my readership has gone up. Some. At least temporarily. Please feel free to …
Blogging Westercon – Saturday
This morning I met with a few SF Canada members for breakfast, at which we tried to convince Danita Maslan to join. Then, after helping my wife and daughter get up to the pool for some swimming, I returned to the room to blog about yesterday’s events and to do some last-minute research for the …
Blogging Westercon – Locus Awards
Here I am, high (35th floor of the International Hotel) above Calgary, awaiting the results of this year’s Locus Awards. (UPDATE: This was initially live-blogged, with photos and links added later.) Charles Brown began with a comic introduction of Connie Willis (first pretending to think he was at a literary conference in China). Charles Brown …
Blogging Westercon – Friday
From left to right: Calgary’s deputy mayor, Guest of Honour S. M. Stirling, Publisher Guest of Honour Tom Doherty, Editor Guest of Honour David G. Hartwell, Canadian Guest of Honour Dave Duncan, Artist Guest of Honour Mark Ferrari, Fan Guests of Honour Eileen Capes and Cliff Samuels. A busy day at Westercon yesterday. We attended …
Aurora Award winners
Hot from Westercon: Long-form EnglishWolf Pack, Edo van Belkom Short-form EnglishWhen the Morning Stars Sang Together, Isaac Szpindel Long-form FrenchLes Mémoires de l’Arc, Michèle Laframboise Short-form FrenchCeux qui ne comptent pas, Michèle Laframboise English otherRelativity: Essays and Stories, Robert J. Sawyer Artistic achievementMartin Springett Fan publicationOpuntia, Dale Speirs Fan organizationBrian Upward, I.D.I.C. Fan otherKaren Linsley, …
Blogging Westercon – Thursday Night, Part 2
The second panel I attended on Thursday night at Westercon was on Great Openings. S.M. Stirling was on hand again, along with Barb Geller-Smith, Andrew Foley and David G. Hartwell, a senior editor at Tor Books. Hartwell rather dominated the panel, mainly because all the would-be authors in the audience were most anxious to hear …
Blogging Westercon – Thursday Night, Part 1
Westercon doesn’t really get underway until today–the opening ceremonies are at noon–but there was some “pre-convention” programming last night, and I took in a couple of panels. I didn’t take complete notes–I was using my Harrier and although I’m pretty fast with a stylus on a virtual keyboard, I’m not fast enough to catch everything …
In Calgary for Westercon
There’s been no posting for the past couple of days because we’ve been travelling, first to Drumheller to see the Royal Tyrrell Museum (that’s me and Alice out front, about to get eaten) then to Calgary for Westercon, which starts tonight. I’ll be pretty busy but hope to post a blog comment now and then …
Fossils
Most people think of fossils as neatly mounted skeletons displayed in cool, clean museums with nicely printed labels at their feet. That’s pretty much the way I think of them at the moment, since I’m writing this in the lunch room of the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Alberta. Unfortunately they don’t occur that way …
Clarissa, not HAL
The space station is getting a voice-activated computer. Astronauts hope it’s more like the Star Trek version than the 2001 version.
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