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Jul. 12th, 2016 01:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
madbakerSo, Charles Stross.
He did a reading and signing earlier in the day, which I was unable to attend. I might not have gone in any case; while I have enjoyed a number of his books (love the Laundry Files, quite liked the first Merchant Princes book but got bored as it got increasingly ranty, meh on most of the space opera) I do not own any of them. However, Borderlands occasionally offers sponsors extras. In this case, spending a couple hours with Charlie and his wife at a bar afterwards. I put in my name and was one of the ten drawn from the hat.
It was fun. Charlie felt no need to restrain his feelings, and indulged his rantyness. Sometimes this was hilarious, other times entertaining and interesting, occasionally an internal eye-roll on my part. (He's a Scottish socialist; I'm neither.) One example of a long-winded, hilarious diatribe was his story about going from drug-running [as a licensed pharmacist] to becoming a computer scientist, thus becoming the "only actual qualified cyberpunk."
Also good chattage with other Borderlands sponsors, because we're similar book geeks. I bailed a bit after 9 PM, because Sunday night. People were still going strong. I made sure to thank Jude from Borderlands for the opportunity.
He did a reading and signing earlier in the day, which I was unable to attend. I might not have gone in any case; while I have enjoyed a number of his books (love the Laundry Files, quite liked the first Merchant Princes book but got bored as it got increasingly ranty, meh on most of the space opera) I do not own any of them. However, Borderlands occasionally offers sponsors extras. In this case, spending a couple hours with Charlie and his wife at a bar afterwards. I put in my name and was one of the ten drawn from the hat.
It was fun. Charlie felt no need to restrain his feelings, and indulged his rantyness. Sometimes this was hilarious, other times entertaining and interesting, occasionally an internal eye-roll on my part. (He's a Scottish socialist; I'm neither.) One example of a long-winded, hilarious diatribe was his story about going from drug-running [as a licensed pharmacist] to becoming a computer scientist, thus becoming the "only actual qualified cyberpunk."
Also good chattage with other Borderlands sponsors, because we're similar book geeks. I bailed a bit after 9 PM, because Sunday night. People were still going strong. I made sure to thank Jude from Borderlands for the opportunity.
