- “It takes a Viking to raze a village.”
- Tshirt of Edward C. Scarborough, radiation physicist and hard-sci fi fan, in town from Flower Mound, TX
- “Jackson’s Lord of the Ring movies opened up those stories to a new worldwide audience that never had access to them before. I loved that.”
- Noreascon
committee member TR Smith, dragging her suitcase through the hall so
she could depart directly for Kosovo on behalf of the State
Department. - “I’m carrying a practice halberd, four feet long with a leather head. Foot soldiers used these to attack knights on horses. A
real halberd would have a metal head and be about two feet longer, but a
real one would be really hard not to kill people with. - Andy aka “Roman dude,” preparing to give a demo for Higgins Armory Sword Guild.
- “Andy’s
padded doublet is a style from the late 1400s; mine is from the 1500s.
If you wear them under armor, they have buckles to hold the armor in
place. The demo of fighting in armor is at noon.” - Frank of Phoenix Swords, also on deck to demo some knightly fighting techniques.
- “The movie I, Robot
is an action movie–that’s its genre. But aside from that, it’s
faithful to Asimov’s work. It even includes the Zeroth Law of robotics,
which wasn’t present in Asimov’s earliest stories. Robots matured as
Asimov wrote about them.” - John Pellet, nuclear engineer and space-opera fan from Arlington, TX.
Today, I’m headed for the huge sci-fi Worldcon aka Noreascon as a participant, not a blogger. I missed getting Eastern Standard Tribe autographed by Cory Doctorow at sxsw, so I hope I manage to catch up with him here. BTW, Cory has been posting tons of Flickr photos online.
Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Robert Silverberg, and both Tor-blogging Haydens are also there–wow. I can hardly wait!