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sally_mariaI promised a report, and here it is. :-)
When I heard that Worldcon was coming to London, I really wanted to take the opportunity to attend when it was on my door-step, but I wasn't sure if I'd be able to make it. Thanks to the offer of a floor to crash on at Umbrella Man's nearby flat, and being very firm with my manager, I managed to overcome most of the obstacles, and on the Wednesday evening after work I set off for the big city. :-)
Cat was also staying, and after an evening of eating pizza, taking apart computers and playing Martian Fluxx, we set our alarms to get there in good time for Registration on Thursday morning.
If I tried to describe all the panels I attended, and people that I met, I know I'd miss people and bore you all silly, so I'll be content to say that I had a wonderful weekend, enjoyed Doctor Who and book panels, the vid shows run bysuch_heights and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
eldritchhobbit's wonderful talk on Sherlock Holmes and sci-fi.
(If you'd like a look at the Excel Centre and some of the exhibit area and fan village, I hope she won't mind me linking to her pictures, which are far better than anything I took.)
I did take a few pictures of things I fell in love with in the exhibit hall...
A wonderfully detailed model of a certain Discworld city.
On a massive scale.
Imported specially for the occasion. :-)
All in all, an experience I'll always remember, and while there's no way my budget can stretch to cross-Atlantic flights, if the Dublin bid for 2019 succeeds, I'll certainly do my best to be there.
When I heard that Worldcon was coming to London, I really wanted to take the opportunity to attend when it was on my door-step, but I wasn't sure if I'd be able to make it. Thanks to the offer of a floor to crash on at Umbrella Man's nearby flat, and being very firm with my manager, I managed to overcome most of the obstacles, and on the Wednesday evening after work I set off for the big city. :-)
Cat was also staying, and after an evening of eating pizza, taking apart computers and playing Martian Fluxx, we set our alarms to get there in good time for Registration on Thursday morning.
If I tried to describe all the panels I attended, and people that I met, I know I'd miss people and bore you all silly, so I'll be content to say that I had a wonderful weekend, enjoyed Doctor Who and book panels, the vid shows run by
such_heights and eldritchhobbit's wonderful talk on Sherlock Holmes and sci-fi.(If you'd like a look at the Excel Centre and some of the exhibit area and fan village, I hope she won't mind me linking to her pictures, which are far better than anything I took.)
I did take a few pictures of things I fell in love with in the exhibit hall...
A wonderfully detailed model of a certain Discworld city.
On a massive scale.
Imported specially for the occasion. :-)
Connie Willis telling us how reading the Lord of the Rings for the first time distracted her from breaking up with her boyfriend, who she's now been married to for decades. :-)
The mead at the TS party on the Thursday evening.
Though we missed the seed-cake, because we went to Paul Cornell's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue - hilarious, as might be expected.
Playing a new variant of Fluxx (Oz) with various TS friends and others.
The talk about the Flinders Petrie Museum.
The marvellous Art Show
The Masquerade, with many excellent costumes, but nothing to top the marvellous entry by a number of TS members. (If you can hear whooping in the background of the video, that's a number of us who were sitting in the (comfortable, raked) seats at the back of the auditorium.)
The Hugo awards, which were an experience I wouldn't have missed, even though I'm not really enough of a sci-fi book reader to have a particular opinion on many of the categories. I did know probably the most successful non-fiction entry though - a challenging and interesting feminist essay by Kameron Hurley - We Have Always Fought. If you haven't read it, I do recommend it.
The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged) - a hilarious way to spend the last afternoon of the con.
All in all, an experience I'll always remember, and while there's no way my budget can stretch to cross-Atlantic flights, if the Dublin bid for 2019 succeeds, I'll certainly do my best to be there.
