A robot, a snowman and a piece of fruit.

http://www.felixtannenbaum.com/2007/02/why_doesnt_my_r.html

http://www.tuginternet.com/jeremy/archives/005434.html


Do *not* all start telling me I've been teaching you wrong until you've read the last paragraph.

You might also find this chap: http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/ a rather useful person to follow, he's a links collector.

As you may have discovered, I didn't make it in yesterday. Please accept my apologies if you came looking for me.

I'm still too unwell to come in, but hope to be there tomorrow (Friday) and I am looking at your work today. If you sent it to the student office but didn't email it to me, you'd be helping me out by emailing it to me today.

Interview with Hard SF author Will McCarthy

tamaranth has been blogging her favourite online short stories. Worth following up. tamaranth is one of the few people I let recommend me things to read. She has excellent taste.

This is M. John Harrison's web site. Harrison is into *focus*. Focus right down on one tiny bit of the world. Tell it as if you've never seen it before.

http://uzwi.wordpress.com/2007/02/28/being-somewhere-else/

Ian McDonald is one of the British Isles' most varied writers. All of his books are very different, he isn't an author of whom you can say "he writes *this* kind of fiction".

Over at Paperknife Paul Kincaid, a leading British critic, considers his work.

28th February: Rob Holdstock, interviewed by Paul Kincaid


Directions:
The Star Tavern, 6 Belgrave Mews West, London, SW1X 8HT
Tel: 020 7235 3019
Map here.
Piccadilly line to Knightsbridge; take Sloane Street exit; cross Sloane Street; take second turning on right -- this becomes Lowndes Street; follow this round and turn into W. Halkin Street. Belgrave Mews is just across the road.

Meet downstairs from 5:30, upstairs from 6, interview starts around 7pm.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v50D1TsSaQ

Youtube video of gravity test on the moon.

For those of you who have not used Live Journal it is essentially a space for chat and discussion. However, in the science fiction community it has become one of the favoured spaces for talking about writing.

One of the things you can do with your livejournal account is to create a personalised "newspaper" of people whose writing you like to read. You do this by
1. going to their pages.
2. Click on user info.
3. Click on the little picture of a head with a plus on it. This will ask you if you want to friend this person. Click Yes.
4. On your own page you'll see a link to "friends". If you click on that you can see who has posted what each day. Keep adding people as you see folks who make interesting comments.

Here are some people you might want to start with:

deadcities_icon
matociquala
ratmmjess
jjarrold


The following are people who use other systems. Follow the link and then follow the instructions:
kenmacleodblog
m_john_harrison
makinglight
margolanagan
counting
naloblogger
sh_reviews
torque_control
wrong_questions

I'll be adding more of these as we go on but it's worth asking me if the authors you like have a blog. Some do, some don't.

There also some communities worth joining:
hugo_recommend
instant_fanzine