Strong winds, fine company, and thoughts on mortality: World Fantasycon 2025
In my last blog I promised to give my impressions of World Fantasycon, which I am more than happy to do. I've not attended a major convention in many years, falling as they do at times when more often than not I am working, but thanks to an extremely generous gesture from a very dear friend I was able to turn down work and head off to Brighton over the Halloween weekend. And what a wonderful, invigorating time it turned out to be! Brighton was alive with marauding packs of young people in spooky/horror garb whooping and hollering as they moved from pub to club in the perennial search for a good time. I am happy to report that I felt neither unsafe nor intimidated as I navigated my way between them on my way back to my hotel late at night - for believe it or not, I too was once a young, intoxicated and staggering student. It is for many a rite of passage, after all. The convention was excellent, well organised, extremely informative on a wide range of subjects concerning Fantasy a...