'Truth Justice and the Home Office' This sounds great fun. I saw a very entertaining article by a tax official once which had to do with the tax implications of... and here I forget. Argh! Was it Gringotts? Was it vampires and other undead? Oh no, I have lost it forever now! Anyway, your discussion of relevant authorities sounds like it was great to hear!
Jim Butcher's normal look of confusion? I don't know anything about him - I had to google to find out he wrote the Dresden Files, to which my reaction was 'oh, those, keep hearing the name, ohhh...' - but was the confusion because he, I presume, is American and this sounds like a very UK-oriented panel?
What's a hold-over vote? Vote to wait and vote again later? So do I guess it is Manchester for 2016 and possibly-Cardiff but possibly-not for 2017?
Again, thanks for the write-ups, I really enjoyed sharing pieces of Eastercon!
Currently, the Eastercon is supposed to be a two year bidding process. (i.e. Committees make bids for two years ahead.) However, recently people have been so absorbed with last year's worldcon in London or so pissed off with the whole process that, as this year, we have come into the convention with no arrangements or even bids for next year's Eastercon. In each case, some experienced people have strung together a bid for the next year rather than not have an Eastercon at all. In this case, it was two very experienced con runners, one of which is almost certainly involved in the Dublin worldcon bid, which I think is for 2018
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Grin, yes, I met Dave Lally at Redemption this year and I see what you mean about Mr Media: we were sitting next to each other for the 'Blake's plan on Gauda Prime' panel, he ran the Brian Clemens appreciation session in the video room (Avengers and - oh, damn, can't remember the other series), and he donated to the auction a piece of wood from the original Wicker Man film, which he had found on the site of the final bonfire of the film. He was also on several panels, I think, again, on all manner of topics!
I heard there that the Cardiff bid had been put back because of the clash. I am not sure I realised there was nothing lined up for 2016, though!
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This sounds great fun. I saw a very entertaining article by a tax official once which had to do with the tax implications of... and here I forget. Argh! Was it Gringotts? Was it vampires and other undead? Oh no, I have lost it forever now! Anyway, your discussion of relevant authorities sounds like it was great to hear!
Jim Butcher's normal look of confusion? I don't know anything about him - I had to google to find out he wrote the Dresden Files, to which my reaction was 'oh, those, keep hearing the name, ohhh...' - but was the confusion because he, I presume, is American and this sounds like a very UK-oriented panel?
What's a hold-over vote? Vote to wait and vote again later? So do I guess it is Manchester for 2016 and possibly-Cardiff but possibly-not for 2017?
Again, thanks for the write-ups, I really enjoyed sharing pieces of Eastercon!
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Grin, yes, I met Dave Lally at Redemption this year and I see what you mean about Mr Media: we were sitting next to each other for the 'Blake's plan on Gauda Prime' panel, he ran the Brian Clemens appreciation session in the video room (Avengers and - oh, damn, can't remember the other series), and he donated to the auction a piece of wood from the original Wicker Man film, which he had found on the site of the final bonfire of the film. He was also on several panels, I think, again, on all manner of topics!
I heard there that the Cardiff bid had been put back because of the clash. I am not sure I realised there was nothing lined up for 2016, though!
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Thankyou for the pictures. Can't remember why I missed the swashbuckling, but I did. So pictures are much appreciated.
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