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.…

Having just worked out that I can do a cut & paste from the nifty con schedule app, I’m going to do the programme items first. Fallen London – Recreating London in Games They’re taking a very wide stance on…

My con schedule is stored on my phone, thanks to a handy little app, so doing a summary will involve a bit of back-and-forth. Let’s see how it goes, shall we? Climate Catastrophes This was done by Jonathan Cowie, who…

Woke up earlier than I’d like, sadly, and thus Wednesday changed from being an afternoon of tourist stuff into being a day where I picked up my badge & con books, then sort of chillaxed for the rest of the…

OK, I was trying to riff on the chorus in “Go West” (Pet Shop Boys version), but I’m not sure I got the right letter; Stupid double-vowel structures. 🙁 I was awake from 1am until about 4am, for reasons unknown,…

Following on from the last post, breakfast eventually happened, once most of the crowd had cleared; All that was left seemed to be a French-speaking group of probably high-school aged girls & some slightly shell-shocked staff. The meal itself was…

As seen in Trafalgar Square. I asked one of the London Ambassador people about it, and she wasn’t a fan; A big bronze pigeon would have been more appropriate in her view.

Breakfast hit an early snag when I got to the lobby & saw the throng of people milling about in the restaurant, talking, allegedly queuing, and generally getting in each others way. There was an actual look of relief on…