Saki Blogs

For the last few weeks there's been a little guilt admitting that we'd all kind of like a week or so without rain. Heresy - we know. But it's been a bit wet. "Bit" wet doesn't begin to explain what the hell happened on Friday night / Saturday. W… more »

There were two sessions that were pretty closely related as they turned out, The first was "Did the Future Just Arrive: The E-book and the Publishing Industry", followed by "The Writer and the Audience: Online Interaction and Public Personae". First e… more »

An interesting set of talks today at AussieCon 4. There were so many more I would have liked to have seen, but packing the huge number of topics into a tight schedule will always result in those sorts of tradeoffs. First up, a subject dear to my hea… more »

I'm in Melbourne at AussieCon 4. My wife is in western Victoria, with heavy rains cutting roads between us. She is currently trying to channel water out of the chook yard. Even if I dropped everything and went home to help there is currently no way t… more »

I was tempted to title this "From Stiletto to Steel Cap - the fashions of AussieCon", although at least one other blogger has already touched on this subject, so perhaps not. For me today's running sheet started with "To Eternity and Beyond" - about… more »

This week I've come to appreciate Melbourne again. I used to spend a lot of time in Melbourne, as a school kid haunting the Pickwick Papers Bookshop in the Degraves Street entrance to Flinders Street Station, going up Swanston Street to Space Age Books… more »

This was the first WorldCon that I'd ever been to, and since it was in my erstwhile home town for only the fourth time in its 68th iteration, it was a chance I was not going to miss. I had been involved in conventions before, but usually as a presenter… more »