Tansy Rayner Roberts's Blog, page 158
September 12, 2010
Podcastalicious
This week has been a frenzy of podcasting. We've put up a whole bunch of Galactic Suburbia episodes that we recorded during Aussiecon in Melbourne, and then this morning Jonathan Strahan called Alisa and I in to guest on his podcast as The Coode St Feminist Advisory Committee.
Check it out:
Galactic Suburbia 15.0 – "Live" at Aussiecon
Galactic Suburbia 15.1 – Ditmar Special and Girl Genius Interview
Galactic Suburbia 15.2 – Hugo Special
Galactic Suburbia 15.3 – Worldcon Wrap Up
September 11, 2010
Of Pork Chops and (not so angry) Penguins
We have been back to real life for some days, though not really real life, because my honey was still off work, and we've returned in the middle of the school holidays, so basically we've all been in our pyjamas since Wednesday night.
I have short stories to write, many of them, and the only time I have to do it in is during Raeli's school holiday, because that is non-novel time. Only a fool would try to write a novel during school holidays.
Do you see the fault in my short-story-writing...
September 9, 2010
Detritus from a Worldcon
[direct from the iPad: a drawing by Raeli of Alisa at the TPP dealer's table]
memorable moment: Mondy staring at Aifin after about 10 minutes intense conversation about iPad sleeves and suddenly announcing, "Hang on, are you THE PRODUCER?"
many other memorable moments: Alex, expecting to be completely anonymous at this con, being faced by various people saying "are you ALEX FROM MELBOURNE?"
drink of the convention: the purple daiquiris at the Voyager 15 party.
frocks of the convention: Alex...
September 8, 2010
Yet Another Worldcon Post
Heh I need to quickly sum up the rest of the con before I forget it all! I do rather feel like I'm repeating myself, as I have done summy up podcasts with Galactic Suburbia covering some of the same material. But here we go:
Sunday was Father's Day! No sleep in or cooked breakfast for my sweetie, though. He did receive a school-made card from Daughter #1 and a gift card for the apps store from me (very appropriate as the iPad had become our complete lifeline over the trip, as...
Galactic Suburbia Episode 15.0 Worldcon Special Show Notes
It's up! You can download/stream our "live" Worldcon episode directly from our Galactic Suburbia site, or from iTunes.
Live from Aussiecon4, speaking from the entirely unsuburban wasteland of downtown Melbourne, Alisa, Alex and Tansy faced an audience of real people, and managed to keep their chatter to a 50 minute podcast. SHOCK. Some awards news, Worldcon gossip, what we are reading and our pet topic: female heroes in SF & Fantasy.
News
September 4, 2010
Thoughts from Worldcon
I'm awake crazy early and if I don't catch up on blogging the early days of the con now, I never will.
Typingn on the iPad, which is an odd experience – I miss my laptop like a sucking hole in my chest. Next time I do a con I am totally leaving my children behind and taking my laptop.
Not that the iPad has not been awesome to us this trip, providing children's entertainment, instant 3G access to internety stuff so we don't have to rely on the super expensive rates everyone else is complaining a...
Feminist Fail and Win at Aussiecon 4
Today I was trying to be con-lite and hang out with my family when not actually appearing on panels, to make it up to them about the entire lack of mummy for the las two and let's face it, the next two days. This choice in itself has some feminist ramifications, let's face it. Juggling motherhood and writing is hard, and juggling motherhood with cons is extra hard. I have help in my partner whi is basically prime child carer for them this week, and mostly on his own in the evenings, which h...
September 3, 2010
Contented
I promised to post every day of the con, didn't I? So much for that. Two days in a foreign land (yes, Alex, FOREIGN) with ten minutes Internet access a day and it appears I have forgotten how to Internet.
I know from long experience that the first two days of a long con feel like they've lasted a thousand years and you've been there forever, meeting people and caught up in the whirl, and then you blink and it's Monday. So we must be nearly home, right?
Noooo so much more con to be had! Random ...
August 30, 2010
Worldcon Prep
For some reason I have ended up with several days for preparation for leaving for the convention, instead of the usual day-before or even morning-of frenzy. My honey likewise finished up work last Friday, and so has had four days prep time.
Which means of course we have spent the last four days in a constant state of packing!
Not actually packing the whole time, of course, but somewhere between beginning and ending the process. We're still there!
Amazingly, we seem to have been able to...
August 29, 2010
The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
This is one I've heard about a lot, though apart from the basic premise I had somehow manage to get to it without major spoilers. Result! The premise: each year, a boy and a girl from each District are selected by lot to fight to the death in the arena, for the entertainment viewing of the masses. Of twenty four children, only the winner is allowed to live.
Katniss is an extraordinary heroine. At sixteen, she lives in great poverty and is the protector and food-gatherer for her family....
