I'll be in Manchester this weekend at Eastercon (aka the British National Science Fiction Convention), enjoying all the sciffy related goodness, and being on some panels, which are: Little-Known British SF TV Shows of the 1950s to 1970s Saturday 17:30 - 18:30, Room 6 (Hilton Deansgate) You might think you really know your early TV,…
Month: March 2016
Hugo Nomination Recs: Best Fancast
The Best Fancast category in the Hugo Awards is the newest category of the awards; 2016 will only be the fifth year it's been contested. It's also the category that, IIRC, gets the least number of nominations and least number of votes. And this saddens me, cause it's also one of the most important categories…
Star Wars, everything Star Wars, nananana Star Wars….
This was meant to be a totally proper and intelligent and thoughtful post about podcasts and the Hugo fancast category. Alas, that will have to wait till the morn as I am utterly knackered (no sympathy, if you were so inclined, it's wholly my own fault) and I think a super early night is in…
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Award Nominables Post
I meant to do ages ago and forget, brilliantly, but here is this year's post sharing what stuff I made last year that can be nominated for things, should you be so inclined: Companion Piece edited by myself and Liz Barr, is eligible in the Best Related Work category of the Hugos. This is a…
A week of blogging, also cake
So while I was having my Death Flu, I was getting annoyed at everything, but mostly myself, because one of the things I wanted to do this year was keep a more regular blog, and I was failing miserably. Fast forward to this week and hurrah! I've posted every day. Sometimes it's been in the…
You shall not pass!
I got this little fellow today - my first Series 15 Lego minifig. I call him Mormont (House Mormont's bears right? My Game of Thrones knowledge is vague outside the Lannisters). And that is surely the most adorable of all possible maces that he's wielding, yes? Also, I now own a totally modern, rather spiffy…
Top 10 Tips for Being a Doctor Who Companion
I just watched the latest edition of the Doctor Who Fan Show, Tops Tips for Being a Companion, which made me Slightly Irate. For there were a bunch of lazy jokes about old skool Who costumes, ankle-twisting, and screaming. As jokes go about old telly, these are bleh; as jokes go on the official BBC…
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HamilWho
Hello, lovely people! I spent an hour or so of today engaged on a terrible enterprise. Hamilton, that wildly successful musical (I say, just in case you don't know what the dickens I'm on about), has been mashed up with all sorts of other fandoms in all sorts of ways because Hamilton is kind of…
Verity! Episode 105 Chatty Daleks
Good evening, delicious readers! It's a Wednesday, and that means shiny new Verity!. This week it's a chat about the second ever story, The Daleks. And I'm on thanks to it being Kat's turn to come down with some rotten flu-like thing. We were also recording in early morning time for me, but I'm absolutely…
My Ambassadors of Death
Realised this morning that though I've mentioned it a couple of times, I don't have a proper official omg-it's-out-yay! post for my recently released book on The Ambassadors of Death: Ambassadors, if you don't know, is a classic Doctor Who story, made in 1970, and is one of my very favourite of all Who goodness.…
Lizbeth Myles 