One of the last things I did at ChiCon was go to filking, which I haven’t done in ages. I miss making music. I don’t know how to fit it into my life at the moment, esp. since neither Kevin or the kids are interested, but I would dearly love to have at least a […]
Someone got a photo of me presenting Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders with their Hugo for Our Opinions Are Correct (incidentally, one of my favorite podcasts, you should listen to it). They’re adorable. Fabulous desserts from the post-Hugo reception thrown by the Chengdu WorldCon team. V. tasty! Fingers crossed I can go to WorldCon
I was delighted to take a selfie with some of the current Strange Horizons staffers, and I admit, a little teary when I saw the massive list of folks who make the magazine I founded happen, every single damn year. That’s community, people. That’s love. Strange Horizons didn’t win the Hugo (again — a finalist
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. I’m going to do a full exegesis on my sewing attempts sometime soon, but for now I’ll note that I ran out of fabric so didn’t manage an actual sari, but rather a cross between a sari and a lehenga, which it turns out reads a lot like a toga, which wasn’t really what
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Back to ChiCon photos! One fun surprise is that we were able to meet up with an old friend, Jordan Samuels for a meal and a drink. Jordan was in math grad school with Kevin and Alex and it was just great catching up on his life for the last thirty or so years. Also,
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Brunch with friends at ChiCon — we walked to a ‘New Asian’ place in River North. Many restaurant options near WorldCon, good — finding seating at a nicer place without a reservation, slightly challenging. But this ended up being a tasty option — I particularly liked the sliced open bao with fried chicken between the
I love this pic of Emmanuel Henderson with the World Science Fiction Society banner — a sign of great things to come for him and his writing. Other pics — two of my favorite Chicago buildings, the Wrigley building (which glows white because they bleach it regularly, if I’m remembering right — Wrigley chewing gum
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I agreed to do Stroll with the Stars, which I think is mostly a way of getting con-goers to get a little exercise instead of sitting all convention in panels. But it gave me an excuse to visit the Bean, which I rarely get to do; I’m very fond of it, despite the artist’s obnoxiousness.
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I came into the con already tired, which isn’t ideal, but I found a decent hack — an Irish coffee midday both perked me up and relaxed sore muscles that had just done a lot of cooking. Better living through chemistry. (The other drink is Emmanuel‘s — I wasn’t double-fisting them, I swear). Had a
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Congrats to Angeli Primlani for launching her first novel at ChiCon8! I workshopped an earlier draft, and it was terrific then — I’m sure it’s even better now, and I can’t wait to read it! “Christopher Marlowe, Elizabethan playwright, mage, and spy, is haunted by the ripples of powerful magics used to defeat the Spanish
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