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Now, some authors have withdrawn their work due to the SP controversy. This, as I understand, is the final Hugo ballot. If you have never voted for the Hugos, 2015 is a good year to start! Become a supporting member of Sasquan and vote away! No need to actually go to Worldcon, as I found […]
Read More The new and final Hugo ballot!Ten years ago, I attended Swancon XXX, a strange and wondrous affair held at the Emerald Hotel Perth (now the Rendezvous Hotel Perth Central). I have many memories of that, my first SF convention, but the one thing that stands out (aside from the fact that the con featured a wedding!) is the kindness and […]
Read More Not Quite a Billion Year Spree: Swancon at 40The oldest of them all – the TransAntlantic Fan Fund – is what we all dream of: being able to get to an American Worldcon without actually winning the lottery. Sending well-known SF fans between Europe and the US mostly consists of the Americans and the British exchanging people. While I love the British, there […]
Read More Vote for TAFF: Last chance to send a European to Sasquan!The entire March has almost gone without posts here. But it has been an exceptionally excellent month for me. Being an anxiety ridden individual, now I am afraid the world will crash around me to ruin it all. But, inspired by this comic by Darko Macan, a great SF writer and the person who first […]
Read More Marching on…When we write as somebody else, in another person’s style, does that qualify us as multiple personality disorder candidates or does it just shine a light on the less prominent parts of our personality? I like to think it’s the latter but then again I see faces in the patterns of my wooden doors. In […]
Read More Writing as somebody else