China Mieville held a kaffeeklatch at the Readercon 2006, at which he chatted with the audience about writing, politics, and other topics. On how wanting…
This was another panel where I heard some new-to-me ideas, and enjoyed it a lot. The most unusual one was that the very notion of…
On China Mieville’s influences and early writing China Mieville. In my mid-teens I came to a decision that I wanted to do this (i. e.…
Readercon is a literary science fiction convention that takes place in Burlington, Massachusetts. The guests of honor in 2006 were authors China Mieville and James…
On January 23, 2007 the FACT reading group discussed “Accelerando” by Charles Stross. Here are the main observations made at the discussion. “Accelerando” is too…
Readercon is a literary science fiction convention that takes place in Burlington, Massachussets. The guests of honor in 2006 were authors China Mieville and James…
Synopsis from Linucon program book: “Science Fiction authors we like, even though we think we shouldn’t.” The panelists were Cathy and Eric Raymond. The audience…
Synopsis. To quote from Linucon program book: “What does it take for an author you used to really like to honk you off so badly…
Many science fiction conventions I attended had a masquerade, but this was the first one where it was called cosplay. In any case, it’s just…
I was about 20 minutes late to this Saturday morning panel. In the pre-baby days an early panel was at 10 or 11 am (mostly…