The Chocolate Pusher

The Chocolate Pusher
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John Dallman tempting Ricardo Pinto with Stilton-looking white chocolate with pistachios. We have been talking about award politics, music, and - with autopope - the future of superfluous technology. Now people are emerging from the Hay Lecture, on replication technology, discussing how to build their own 3D printers and make sex toys with them.

Cosmonaut!

Cosmonaut!
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Promoting Satellite 2, con in Glasgow in July - GOH Iain M Banks. Also, chocolate!

Chandelier!

Chandelier!
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Fibre-optic chandelier, Cedar. String theory!

I spy with my little eye ...

I spy with my little eye ...
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..something beginning with A. Yes, audience - for the 'Not the Clarke Award' panel, with LJ people chilperic, fjm, swisstone, major-clanger, fishlifter and myself. McAuley, we think, or possibly Reynolds. I'm sure we'll be proved wrong on 29th April!

it's the Newman-McAuley Show!

it's the Newman-McAuley Show!
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BSFA Awards, ably and entertainingly presented by Kim Newman and Paul McAuley. (Mr Newman is *singing*. Hopefully Mr McAuley will dance soon. ... No, he is channelling Arthur C Clarke, with a Zomerzet accent.) Ok! Winners! ART: Andy Bigwood, cover Subterfuge. NON-FICTION: Farah Mendlesohn, Rhetorics of Fantasy. SHORT STORY: Ted Chiang, Exhalation. NOVEL: Ken MacLeod, The Night Sessions. YAY!

Eira

Eira
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Saturday night's all right for dressing up, chip butties and concocting peculiar pseudo-science. Also Doctor Who. And BEER. And discussing BOOKS.