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Aussiecon4: day 1 #1
Just a quick update before I head back in for an exciting second day at Aussiecon4. My absolute highlights were two very exciting fangirl moments: firstly, I met Helen Merrick, author of the brilliant...
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Aussiecon4: Day 1 #2
I didn’t have the energy to blog electronically during the con. Instead, I kept paper notes (outrageous, I know)… My Aussiecon4 actually started on the Wednesday, when I hosted a full contingent of...
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Aussiecon4: Day 2
Friday started with Alisa, Tansy and myself walking over to the con and getting our heads around how we could keep a Galactic Suburbia recording to 50 minutes, because we were scheduled to record LIVE...
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Aussiecon4: Day 3
I’d be lying, and everyone who was there would know I was lying, if I didn’t say that the most exciting thing about day 3 was getting to meet Alastair Reynolds. Minor fangirl moment. I got to chat...
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Aussiecon4: Day 4
Sunday was the biggest day for me in terms of panels I wanted to attend – and because it ended with the Hugos ceremony. It began with a panel on far future sf, and was framed by Clarke’s so-called law,...
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Aussiecon4: Day 5
By the last day of a con, everyone is starting to get a bit weary, and understandably so. There were a number of people who were particularly… weary… post-Hugos. Me, I was doing fine. So I completed my...
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Galactic Suburbia 15: live show!
Live from Aussiecon4, speaking from the entirely unsuburban wasteland of downtown Melbourne, Alisa, Alex and Tansy faced an audience of real people, and managed to keep their chatter to a 50 minute...
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Continuum 8
Or My Con Experience, by Alex, aged… quite enough thanks. It was Craftonomicon, the 51st National Australian Science Fiction Convention, this weekend, and the first weird bit about it was that I got...
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Con #2: the slightly less self-indulgent version
I forgot to mention in my last post that I also went to a panel called Crafts in Space, at which Tansy, Trudi Canavan and Lyn McConchie led a discussion about what sort of crafts might be done in...
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The Great NatCon Blog Post Round-Up
Because reading one blog post about a NatCon weekend is just not enough. The official website, with info about Ditmar and other award winners, is here. (Also, the opening ceremony video is online,...
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