a vintage year for scoundrels

This weekend I went to a couple of SF related events in the Cheltenham Festival of Literature. I took notes in both of them and have typed them up for anyone who is interested in that sort of thing. Hopefully they make sense and I have not dreadfully misrepresented anyone's views or anything. All the bits in [square brackets] are my comments, everything else is my notes, transformed as far as possible into actual sentences. More or less.

The first event, on Saturday lunchtime, was China Miéville and John Mullan talking about SF versus literary fiction, in the context of the Booker prize.

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The second event was on Sunday afternoon; it involved China Miéville, Michael Moorcock, Iain M. Banks and Gwyneth Jones discussing the British SF tradition. Annoyingly I can't remember the moderator's name, so I shall just have to call her "Moderator".

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I am going to have a go at listing all the books and films wot I read and see this year, hopefully with not entirely uninteresting comments about them. Of course this is all dependent on a) me not being lazy and b) me working out how to edit posts (I've done it before but can never remember how) (ETA I worked it out! It was indeed very obvious). So here goes:

( Books of 2007 )

( Films of 2007 )