Interaction the tamaranth way

[tamaranth]

Interaction write-up complete! (7.5K. Should not have gone to this many programme items, clearly. No wonder brane has indigestion.)

These are notes, not neatly-summarised snapshots. Read at your peril. All omissions my own. Marginalia (primarily stylised lizards) mostly excluded. Programme descriptions pasted from the pre-con programme spreadsheet; I've tried to indicate changes.

I have omitted fascinating conversations in the bar / over dinner / on the banks of the Clyde; faithful descriptions of the pool in the Quality, nee Central (empty both times we went, much-valued peace); a lengthy diatribe on the difficulty of buying blank cassette tapes; apologies to anyone I offended, inadvertently or otherwise. Please take as read.

In general, verbatim comments are enclosed in double quotation marks, my own additions in italics. Apologies for any errors in transcription: all notes scribbled by hand, often rather hurriedly, often rather early ...

Photographic evidence may be found here.

Thursday 4th August: The Matter of Britain in British Music / Hans Christian Andersen & the Dark Side of Fairy Tale / I'm Sorry I Haven't an SFing Clue

Friday 5th August: Moving in Time as Well as in Space / Greer Gilman: Reading / Book Group Discussion: Not Before Sundown, by Johanna Sinisalo / Can fan fiction writers go on to write real books?

Saturday 6th August: British Landscape and the Fantastic / Complex Families, Queer Neighbours / How do we reinvent Time Travel? / Geek Eye for the Technophobe Guy / Not really a programme item: Voyager Party on the Tall Ship

Sunday 7th August: The Aesthetics of Fantasy / Lost and Found: Children's Books We Miss / Waiting for the Fantastic / Great Europeans as Fictional Characters

Monday 8th August: Finding the Fantastic in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle

Comments

[lamentables.livejournal.com]

The book you lost on the Tall Ship - it wasn't Essential SF, a concise guide was it? We found we had mysteriously acquired same. After a brief perusal abrinsky declared it to be crap and stopped reading to maintain a sensible blood pressure.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

er, might've been! Thanks to abrinsky for running proper health and safety checks. Don't think it would have been good for me at all.

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

*raised eyebrow* Intersection? That would make it ten years[1] for the writeup *evil grin*


[1] Since Intersection was Worldcon 1995 in Glasgow, the SECC, and Worldcon 2005 was Interaction at the same location.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

typo corrected, glad you found it an interesting post ...

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

Well, err, this particular post is more or less a list of links to other stuff. Whether or not that stuff linked to is interesting, the link post itself is inherently on the side.

After actually reading the rest of it, though, I can say that yes, it was interesting. Apologies for the attempt at humour that seems to have fallen flat.

[ladymoonray.livejournal.com]

I haven't looked at your programme notes yet, as I want to write mine up first. But is it OK if I link to your notes on the Baroque Cycle panel, instead of trying to do my own version? I didn't write anything down when we reconstructed it.

Your photos are great; I've made a couple of silly icons out of the ones of me. I hope that's OK.