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]

I would suggest if you do this again that you need a slightly more neutral moderator, so that Dan can fall back into the role of forthright pundit, for which his is clearly born (or is that Forged?).

[immortalradical.livejournal.com]

neutral moderator

I don't understand.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

I do. :p

[immortalradical.livejournal.com]

Really, this is the fault of that person who had the moronic idea of making me - ME - a moderator. How did they think this would end?

I consider my job well done, frankly. :D

[secritcrush.livejournal.com]

So Martin? ;)

[veggiesu.livejournal.com]

you need a slightly more neutral moderator

I'm all kinds of shocked and surprised.

Oh, no, wait... :-p

[grahamsleight.livejournal.com]

You're absolutely right, but in particular you'd need a slightly more neutral moderator who can Impose Order On All. And, y'know, shut them up when needed. Any volunteers?

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

Although billed as a panel this was always intended to be the Dan Vs Farah show.

[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.