Report From The BSFA Meeting

[coalescent]

That was fun. Some highlights:

- Dan (above centre) heckling the audience as much as the audience heckled him.

- The cheerfulness with which Liz (above right) called Dan a wronghead.

- Andrew: "Complaining Accelerando is about people who are still a bit like us is like complaining that post-nuclear-holocaust stories aren't about piles of dust."

- Martin (above left)'s opinion of the shortlist: there's always a lower place.

- Dan and Abigail discussing Jane Austen (Graham: "Ginger, get the popcorn.")

- General agreement on the brilliance of Air.

- The many many books I came home with, including the beautiful Polder.

Can we do it again sometime?

Comments

[swisstone.livejournal.com]

Fair enough, but if you try to pull the same trick again, you'll start to try people's patience. Which is why I carefully said that if done again a more neutral moderator would be needed, not that a more neutral mmoderator was needed last night.

[immortalradical.livejournal.com]

This is exactly the sort of even-handed diplomacy I do not do. :P

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

I didn't pull anything, blame the BSFA Events Co-ordinator! But yeah, Dan does try everyone's patience.

[immortalradical.livejournal.com]

And yet witness that rapt expression on your frazzled little face.