Yippee! Have a new short science fiction story published today on 365tomorrows – Web World – you can read it here. Enjoy!
I had safely returned from EasterCon 2024 at Telford yesterday. A weird thing happened on the way back… I got onto the train at Telford, suitcases and all. Another gentleman got on and sat on the seats immediately in front of me. He had long hair tied back in a pony tail – one half left a natural grey and the other half what I would call purple (though hairdressers and similar specialists might call it something else). Over the tannoy came the announcement from the conductor that the trains to Euston Station in London were still suffering problems at Milton Keynes – they had solved the main problem, but had discovered two further minor problems that needed dealing with. The people in the carriage burst out laughing. Said gentleman got up to get off at Wolverhampton as advised to catch the London train from there. We all gave him our sympathy. Then he said he had only been in Telford over the weekend. Of course I had to ask whether he had been to the science fiction convention. He had! He went onto say he wasn’t too worried about what time he got into London as his flight home to San Francisco was not until today! End result was we agreed we would meet up at WorldCon in Glasgow later this year, much to the amusement of other passengers. Yes, this can only happen to people in the science fiction community because we’re so… well, we’re so us!
Talking of EasterCon – I will be writing a report of the event, but subject to editorial approval, it will appear over on SFCrowsnest in due course. I was on three panels and I hope those of you who were there or who viewed them on catch-up (access only given to those who are members of EasterCon) enjoyed what I had to say.
My thanks go to several people. Roy Gray for selling copies of my debut novel, Edge of Existence, from his Interzone / Black Static table. Ben Greenaway, Stephan Oram and Eva Pascoe, for selling copies of my novella The Martian Wind, from the Cybersalon Press table, and to giving me such a wonderful time at the book launch of their All Tomorrows Futures, Fictions That Disrupt on Saturday evening.
As for sales of All Tomorrows Futures, Fictions That Disrupt – they seem to be going great guns. (UK Amazon link here.) It is in its own way yesteryear’s Analog magazine of today – a serious ground-breaking upgrade if you will.
Rosie Oliver 