Road from Glasgow 2024: Ken Macleod, The Restoration Game (2010)

Part of my series of posts on Scottish SFF in the run-up to, and aftermath of, this year’s WorldCon, focusing especially on the work of GOH Ken MacLeod. (NB. I am discussing the plot and ending of …

Prospective Cultures
Glasgow 2024 – a Worldcon for our Futures – though perhaps not disabled futures.

(Posting this several weeks after the convention partly because I was hoping to have some sort of statement from the conrunners, a statement that at this point does not appear to be forthcoming.) G…

Blogging with dragons

Great to see that the two Chengdu Hugo co-Administrators received equal levels of ostracism at the Glasgow Worldcon...

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More shots from around #Glasgow2024 #glasgowworldcon - including the quest guy/NPC guy who was going around giving people side quests. Luckily I succeeded in mine!
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Scenes from #Glasgow2024 #glasgowworldcon that just wrapped up yesterday. Lots of fun! #Glasgow was great!
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Well yesterday @glasgowin2024 ended, and it was glorious 5 days of fun & just being around my kind of people

Amazing time, as Glasgow handed over to @seattle2025worldcon & here is me hoping that Dublin wins in 2029

As a disabled fella, dependent on benefits, my only chance to ever attend a WorldCon is when it’s in these Isles & that doesn’t happen that often

Still, hopefully gonna do EasterCon next year!

#WorldCon #WorldCon2024 #Glasgow #GlasgowIn2024 #GlasgowWorldCon #GlasgowWorldCon2024

Slightly curious that The Guardian has previously run several pieces about the Hugo/Worldcon dramas, but - as far as I can tell - doesn't seem to have published anything about the actual winners this year?

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I am truly dead at this point after five days of the most amazing convention!

But this is my last panel before the convention closes, and it’s the 25th Anniversary of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, and I loved that movie, still do

But yeah hoping I can make it to the closing ceremony before me and @lindsaylikestea drive home #

#StarWars #PhantomMenace #StarWarsEpisodeI #ThePhantomMenace #WorldCon #WorldCon2024 #Glasgow #GlasgowIn2024 #GlasgowWorldCon #GlasgowWorldCon2024

Next panel is Safety Tools for Tabletop Roleplaying Games which has been fairly useful!

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Now at a Baldurs Gate 3 panel with the game director, one of its senior writers and a junior writer

Really cool

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