Snapshots from LonCon 3
For the ones of you who have not made it to this amazing event, here a gallery of photos. Enjoy!
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Loncon3 – the Convention and the Hugo Awards
A WorldCon – i.e., the annual SF Word Convention – is an amazing event, culminating in the Hugo Awards night but also featuring a head-spinning series of events, panels, games, music performances (called filk in SF jargon), art dealers, promotions…
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2014 Hugo Awards – almost there
Friday 1 August was the last useful day to vote for the 2014 Hugo Awards and now, finally done with them, I must admit I was not able to read the whole bunch. Too many things, too little time. Some reviewers…
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XXI CENTURY SCI-FI – Equoid by Charles Stross
A visionary and ironic melange of comedy and SF, Equoid (2013) is a brilliant example of Charles Stross’ prose and a stand-alone novella in his Laundry series. It features a field agent working for British government agency “the Laundry”, in…
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Hail to the (Z) Queen – The Newsflesh Universe, by Mira Grant/Seanan McGuire
It started with reading Sci-Fi Magazine’s quote on the book cover “The zombie novel Robert A. Heinlein might have written” – a suggestion I could not avoid checking out. It ended with me reading everything – and I repeat, everything…
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