{"id":193,"date":"2014-08-19T21:31:19","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T09:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=193"},"modified":"2014-08-19T21:31:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T09:31:19","slug":"loncon-3-5-british-classics-germans-defining-x-punk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"LonCon 3.5 &#8211; British Classics &#038; Germans Defining X-Punk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John Wyndham &#8211; The Invisible Man Of Science Fiction<\/strong><br \/>\nThis was a documentary on John Wyndham, who was spectacularly closed-mouthed about himself &#038; his past, and seems to have been quite an odd man.<br \/>\nThis gave Wyndham &#038; his works the sort of analysis I was hoping for from the Raumpatrouille Orion fan group presentation; Looking at what was happening at the time which influenced his works. As an example, Day Of The Triffids happened at around the same time as Lysenkoism in the USSR.<br \/>\n<em>(And as a side note, my phone knew the name Lysenko, which is a little odd)<\/em>  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Beyond Blighty: World Steampunk<\/strong><br \/>\nThree Germans &#038; a South American talk about Steampunk, Clockpunk, Dieselpunk, Teslapunk, &#8230;<br \/>\nOr, more accurately, three Germans talk succinctly about the topic, and one South American craps on endlessly about his own works in ways that are possibly related to the topic, if anyone could follow what the hell he was talking about.<br \/>\nSome very good points about the eras of history no German wants to touch, and the knock-on effects of that; As soon as you have Steampunk in a united Germany, you&#8217;ve got the Empire, and everyone knows where <em>that<\/em> ended up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cruise Of The Gods<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Feature length comedy drama starring Rob Brydon &#038; Steve Coogan, about two actors who appeared in a 70&#8217;s children&#8217;s SF series (that looks like a cross between Blakes 7 and The Tomorrow People) &#8211; one who&#8217;s become a successful TV actor in the US (watch out for &#8216;Sherlock Holmes In Miami&#8217;!), and another whose career has floundered leaving him dependent on fandom and appearances at conventions (and forced by his agent to board the eponymous fan cruise).  <\/em><br \/>\nI caught the end of this; May well have to track it down to watch the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Comics Britannia &#8211; Anarchy In The UK<\/strong><br \/>\nAnother documentary, starting with <strong>Viz<\/strong> and going forward through <strong>2000AD<\/strong> and into the career of Alan Moore.<br \/>\nOther people too, but lots of Alan Moore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Wyndham &#8211; The Invisible Man Of Science Fiction This was a documentary on John Wyndham, who was spectacularly closed-mouthed about himself &#038; his past, and seems to have been quite an odd man. 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