I normally avoid map-making panels* at cons for professional reasons, but thought I’d try the one here. This was a mistake, but not for the usual reasons of Really Bad Maps and Really Bad Advice; This one was just Really…

A bit of a mixed bag on today’s events. Kids With Jobs, talking about the need to get YA protagonists away from Family & Mentors, unless you want to end up writing a school story. The panel spent a lot…

I started this con in the usual manner, by waking up too early & being unable to get back to sleep. I killed some time responding to, or at least reading, the pertinent bits of yesterday’s email barrage, most of…

So, what to do with my first day in Dublin? Based on my wanderings last night, it looks like the hotel was being entirely honest when they said that the City Centre was walking distance away, so that’ll help. I’m…

It’s like a Train To Malta in some respects, .., I didn’t sleep well last night, probably due to concern about getting to my train on time. On the positive side, that did give me the opportunity to watch a…

rather than just blasting out the whole email, which was … long … , here are the highlights Gen Con Attributes Record-Breaking 2014 Numbers to Growing Partnership between Gamers and Indianapolis Community INDIANAPOLIS (August 19, 2014) Gen Con 2014, completed…

I slept in today, and it was awesome. The one thing I ‘needed’ to get done today was picking up my train tickets for the trip to Dublin & back. Promptly got onto the wrong DLR train, so ended up…

John Wyndham – The Invisible Man Of Science Fiction This was a documentary on John Wyndham, who was spectacularly closed-mouthed about himself & his past, and seems to have been quite an odd man. This gave Wyndham & his works…

The Martians & Us – The End Of The World As We Know It This was a screening of a documentary on end-of-the-world literature, and it did a pretty good job of looking at what was happening in the UK…

Remembering the Terran Trade Authority For those who don’t know; TTA I have a very second-hand copy of one of these, bought out of nostalgia, and I’d definitely pick up a couple of the others were they to become available.…