Post the Fourth: Solaris authors at the World Horror Con!

Brian Lumley signing for all his many, many fans at the con!

Vincent Chong, cover artist for Shine, poses with his shiny, shiny creation. Shine is being launched at Eastercon next weekend!

Ian Whates, author of The Noise Within (coming out from Solaris in May) with his writing-group pal Ian Watson, author of the Spielberg movie AI: Artificial Intelligence

Some scary looking chap and, no, wait, the scary-looking one is Andy Remic

Conrad William in 'The Reading Cafe,' reading from the novel he'll be writing for Solaris next year...

Jon Oliver and Ellen Datlow, editor of the Poe anthology, out for lunch

Ellen on the Women in Horror panel moderated by Maura McHugh

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See previous posts and photos from the World Horror Con over here. Now comes with added Neil Gaiman!

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SFX Weekender: Tenth Post

(Ninth post right here on the Abaddon Blog).

So here's Jon in the bar this morning giving a reading and presentation on his new book, Twilight of Kerberos: The Call of Kerberos. Yep. I just included the words "morning," "bar," and "presentation" in the same sentence. I really can't reconcile any two of those in my mind, much less all three.

I guess that's just how we roll, here at the SFX Weekender. Represent.

Actually, not sure if he's presenting on his book or giving cooking instructions. Or very subtly trying to signal someone across the room without the audience seeing.

And here again.

Now I'm getting a kind of "What the Hell am I doing here?" vibe.

Karaoke and dancin' next.

Awww yeah.

More about that, and a final wrap, at the eleventh post here.

SFX Weekender: Eighth Post

Part seven is here.

Well, I joined some kind of gang. They seem like pretty tight guys; didn't like stairs for some reason. But I'm part of the outfit, now. Sounds like we hang out, get drunk, and then kill doctors.

For some reason.

Part Nine here.

SFX Weekender: Sixth Post

Fifth post is here.

So check this out. One of the organisers is talking to a Jedi Knight. There's Lord Vader in the background; there's the stormtroopers. Everyone's acting cool, keeping it natural, but the tension's clear.

Someone's gonna start some shit, yo.

(Saturday morning starts with the seventh post, here.)

SFX Weekender: Fourth Post

Third post is here.

So, yeah, I'm wandering the halls looking for interesting people to photograph, and I run into our gametesters (QA guys).

Classy mofos, aren't they?

Head over here for the fifth live update post.

SFX Weekender: Second Post

What's that, you say? Surely this can't be the second post? We haven't had the first post yet!

There you'd be wrong, gentle reader. As I'm here for both Abaddon and Solaris, I'm posting to both blogs. Go here to read the first post, over on the Abaddon Blog.

So we've been here for a few hours, watching the geeks sail blissfully by, looking at the crazy and inspired costumes, generally getting our voyeur on.

Over at the 2000AD stall, they're obviously organised and efficient, and very much on top of things.

Below is a picture of the Solaris and Abaddon stall.

We're all over that shit like Mussolini on the train networks. I'm telling you.

Head here for the Third Post.