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Saturday at Worldcon

Twenty years after I first heard of the concept (which seemed and still seems pretty darn silly), it hit me that Sime/Gen is about sex. Yeah, I’m slow sometimes — especially about sex! A fan slipped on some stairs at … Continue reading

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three days at Worldcon

Thursday: met not one but two bloggers who had been kind enough to link to me, Charlie Stross and Anita Rowland; as well as Sarah Lawrence without the famous burqa. Chatted with Karen Anderson about this and that. John Hertz, … Continue reading

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here bee targets

Steven den Beste discusses dragon metabolism and how to fight them. Sunday; Monday; Tuesday. I love this sort of thing, don’t you? Psst, Steven: Brendan O’Neill, a professional writer who has been blogging for two months, offers we amateur writers … Continue reading

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mad cosmology

Some entertaining notions in Susan Stepney’s notes from a panel at Eastercon 2001: Maybe we’re surrounded by fake scenery, living in a “planetarium” – what are the required capabilities of civilisations that can fool us? info is needed to generate … Continue reading

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the dark side of Sanrio

“Hello Cthulhu“. (Sent to me by Astraea, under the title “NEXT election”)

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it strikes me as more Barbara Cartland

Pink Hello Kitty Laptop. (Thanks to Spastic Mutant for the link.)

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Bruce Pelz

The “Elephant” of fandom died suddenly this evening, aged 65 years. (If I hear that there is to be no funeral I’ll freak, because no Bruce Pelz rite is an anagram of Nobel Truce Prize. Bruce was fond of anagrams.) … Continue reading

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