I’ve been adding things to the map in anticipation of being in Anaheim in August for Worldcon, I always make myself a little food and tourism guide anyway so it seemed silly not to. Here …
Category: Newcastle
TAFF Visit
Last weekend we hosted the 2026 TAFF delegate, Kat Templeton, on her way to Eurocon. I’ve linked to the explanation of TAFF, but short version is it’s an annual fannish crowdfunder to help a fan …
Hugo Watching: BDP Long Form
This is another category full of things I liked. There’s some horror, some superhero action, two musicals, animation, space adventure, comedy, originals, adaptations, franchises, all the things! But ultimately top of my list is going …
Hugo Reading: Novelette
Intersting mix of subjects here; kaiju, vampires, magic, and self-aware machines (the old term is too loaded and too intentially muddled by llm-hucksters to be of any use to me now). The machines take the …
Achoo!
Well, this should have been a con report, or more Hugo reading posts, but instead I caught a cold and then maybe another cold, or a sinus infection, or some damned thing and missed out …
Eastercon 2026: Iridescence
(It says last weekend, but I left this in drafts for two weeks, sigh) (Aaaaand I posted an incomplete draft. I’m a hot mess.) Last weekend we headed to the Hilton Birmingham Metropole for Eastercon! …
Dark Flood by Karon Alderman
Last month I was at the Ouseburn Trust waiting to go on their Brewery Tour (which was not as blokey as the photo on their website imples) and a time travel kids book in their …
BEAMISH
My birthday started on Thursday as far as I’m concerned, since it was First Thursday – and a busy one now that the weather is warmer and the daylight lasts past the end of the …
Lunar New Year
February is nearly done, its warmed enough to maybe put away the thermals, and the sun is still out when I close my work laptop at the end of the day. Eastercon is hovering on …
The Bone Temple
After being disappointed by the wildly uneven 28 Years Later, I went into this cautiously optimistic based on word-of-mouth and the knowledge that at worst it would have more Ralph Fiennes. I knew it was …