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Tuesday, April 29, 2003
SF Experience
Just "twigged", reading my RFF mailing list, that the SF Experience is backed by some heavy hitter RFFers. Hence I must brag about that here, although my major contribution is being on the RFF mailing list and making the occational fitful gesture in the RFF direction. :-) RFF is "Reading for the Future" by the way, and is a mailing list anyone can join via yahoo groups. It is a group of teachers, authors and other intersted parties who support the use of sci fi as a means to get the next generation reading and thinking about the future. The SF Experience is a hands-on sci fi museum, a la various science centres, that will have an online presence as well as a physical one in Washington State (Seatle).
No Norwecon Pictures yet but Discovered Deleuzian Ontology
David is picking up pictures from Norwescon today, so expect I'll have up a report by the weekend, including a belated picture of the lovely Okal Rel Universe buttons created for me distribute there by Kathy Plett and Jordan Bacon. Now for something entirely different, as they used to say on Monty Python.
Saturday, April 19, 2003
Far Arena off to the publishers (fanfare please!); Lynda off to Norwescon
I have just come back from delivering a fat padded envelope to the post-office, containing 552 pp of FAR ARENA. That's 145 400 words, down amazingly from the near 190 000 words we had when we compiled all the first-draft chapters. Said total occasioned much moaning and clanking of chains from my (Alison's) part as I wandered (figuratively) around like a distressed spectre, wailing 'we're going to have to cut; we're going to have to cut'. I took it to the vicinity of 165 000 words, and then Lynda got her second wind and took it down the rest of the way (... and it was her turn to chortle and mine to make soft whimpering noises of apprehension: 'no, not that part, please not that part'). Feedback from the readers of THRONE PRICE has been much, much appreciated - aside from simply keeping us going through the revisions, it tells us how much we can rely on our readers' intelligence and imaginations - so we don't need 45 000 extra words. Lynda is presently down in Seattle at Norwescon. I've no idea what she's doing! - between winding up FAR ARENA, her neuropsychology course, her course marking, my clinical study reports, my rehearsal schedule, my other novel (GRAVEYARDS OF NEREIS, which is also done, printed and sent off) and my contracting one or other of the endemic winter viruses (no not SARS) - I never did catch up with what she was doing, aside from a reading by readers of THRONE PRICE or MEKAN'STAN. Wednesday, April 09, 2003
Sightings of People in T-Shirts
Reported sighting of a supporter in an ORU T-Shirt. Mica Currie, comp. sci. student at UNBC, caught in the entrance of Lynda's office. :-)
End in sight?
Relieved, today, to feel some hope the war may be near an end and stories on the news may be more about healing than killing. War is such an intoxicating, toxic drug. May the people engaged in it, soldiers and civlians, stay alive. And the liberal institutions of western democracy survive the purge. Thursday, April 03, 2003
Magnificent obsession
Testament to one man's obsession with the sea, this house in Esquimault, just above the dock where the harbour ferry lets off. A pirate on the roof, a crows nest hanging off the side, King Neptune, mermaid and dolphins on the lawn, and, not shown, the garage is the brig, complete with briggee. I figured if there was anywhere for me to put this picture, it should be here ...
kath
Tuesday, April 01, 2003
Testing out lab instructions for a photoshop lab and wound up with this. :-) Alison may remember the background. Now, if I can extract her out of her picture as well and so an Alison version ... |