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

[danmilburn.livejournal.com]

I guess what I was thinking was, wouldn't the easiest solution be to buy a cheap tape-based dictation machine? Dixons have them for £20, which means you can probably get one for half that elsewhere..

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

No. We have those at work; they have a range of about two feet. They record if you are holding them under someone's nose and not otherwise--because they are designed for dictation, not picking up questions from the back of the room.

Plus, tape. Ew!

[mattia.livejournal.com]

Seriously, I'm taking my little tape-based dictaphone (Sony) that's got a big 'ol mic and seems to pick stuff up quite decently, just to make sure I'm not imagining it.

Besides, those tiny tapes are AWESOME. Just because they're tiny.

[nuttyxander.livejournal.com]

And make you feel like a spy.