Octocon 2012

And just two weeks after a lovely Fantasycon weekend comes Octocon, the national science fiction convention of Ireland! Now giant conventions are not my thing at all — I stopped in at DragonCon a couple of years ago to meet some friends for dinner and drinks and while that part of it was delightful, it was pretty much the definition of everything that does not appeal to me in a con. But Octocon is small even by my small-con standards. I suppose such a small con, one with many participants who...