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Had terrific fun at Worldcon. Managed to avoid catching Covid, possibly because I was too tired in the evenings (side effect of medication) to bother hanging about in the bars and instead just went back to the hotel around 9pm each evening.
The local train with an "all the trains you can eat" ticket for £5 for 5 days worked well. Apart from one night when there was a 45 minute gap between trains, so me and an American couple shared a taxi instead of standing in the rain.
Things they could have done better... there was no physical newsletter. And no physical newsletter office. I know - I went looking for it to give them some news. Ops sent me to the Media Office, who sent me to Information, who tried to send me back to the Media Office, then found someone who thought it was only on Discord (at which point I thanked them and gave up).
Things I went to see/did:
- Dune the Musical (awesome)
- Policing the High Frontier
- The Science, Fiction and Ethics of Terraforming
- The Lost Wonders of Science Fiction
- What lines should we cross when writing fanfic?
- Vegetables in space (one of my favourite panels)
- Ancient cultures and context
- Playing with gender and gender expectations in SFF
- Copaganda and the Judge Dredd conundrum
- The Expanse: greatest SF TV series of the 21st century
- SF as a tool to increase STEM uptake
- The many legs of SF - creepy crawlies in space
- Women in military SF (interesting, but they talked mostly about fantasy in a panel specifically named SF!)
- played in a 2 hour Traveller RPG session which was fun
- Chemistry in SF: cavorite, coaxium and other fictions
- All the world's boos depend on the beancounter: economics in SFF
- The myth of the wilderness
- Has science ruined science fiction?
- Going up: space elevators as highways to the stars
- Strong female leads who don't kick ass
- Dr Who fans meet-up
- went to the art show... and bought a couple of prints.
- spent remarkably little money in the dealers room... having to lug everything to Mum's then home on the train rather tempered my impulse to buy large and/or heavy things!
The local train with an "all the trains you can eat" ticket for £5 for 5 days worked well. Apart from one night when there was a 45 minute gap between trains, so me and an American couple shared a taxi instead of standing in the rain.
Things they could have done better... there was no physical newsletter. And no physical newsletter office. I know - I went looking for it to give them some news. Ops sent me to the Media Office, who sent me to Information, who tried to send me back to the Media Office, then found someone who thought it was only on Discord (at which point I thanked them and gave up).
Things I went to see/did:
- Dune the Musical (awesome)
- Policing the High Frontier
- The Science, Fiction and Ethics of Terraforming
- The Lost Wonders of Science Fiction
- What lines should we cross when writing fanfic?
- Vegetables in space (one of my favourite panels)
- Ancient cultures and context
- Playing with gender and gender expectations in SFF
- Copaganda and the Judge Dredd conundrum
- The Expanse: greatest SF TV series of the 21st century
- SF as a tool to increase STEM uptake
- The many legs of SF - creepy crawlies in space
- Women in military SF (interesting, but they talked mostly about fantasy in a panel specifically named SF!)
- played in a 2 hour Traveller RPG session which was fun
- Chemistry in SF: cavorite, coaxium and other fictions
- All the world's boos depend on the beancounter: economics in SFF
- The myth of the wilderness
- Has science ruined science fiction?
- Going up: space elevators as highways to the stars
- Strong female leads who don't kick ass
- Dr Who fans meet-up
- went to the art show... and bought a couple of prints.
- spent remarkably little money in the dealers room... having to lug everything to Mum's then home on the train rather tempered my impulse to buy large and/or heavy things!
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