*flail*...*slump*

[selenay]

Am home from Redemption 07. Fantastic con :-))) I'm really hoping that I'll be able to return to England for a week for Redemption 09 - this is the first time I've had to say "er, I'm not sure because I'm emigrating next year...." and it's starting to bring home the fact that it's really happening and rather soon.

Anyway.

Am home! Fantastic time! More details later!

Except to say that it wasn't as far as I thought it was, possibly because we spent much less time getting lost due to paranoidangel42's sat nav :-) We had Tom Baker on the sat nav for this trip and it was a hoot. In addition to telling us to drive straight over roundabouts (good mental images...) he kept telling us to "join the motorway, it's fun!" Much giggling. Possibly because we were both at the hyper stage of exhausted.

I have unpacked and am now at the dizzy, flumping stage of exhausted so I am dragging a pillow down to the sofa, making some popcorn and lying down to rest my back. Er, while watching the Oscars. Have somehow made it to 16:00 without finding out the results. Quite miraculous. If anyone has book lists, just wants to say hi with new LJ names that you were talked into getting or has friended me as a result of me scaring you at Redemption, leave a comment and I'll say hi back :-)

This post brought to you by caffiene, exhaustion and co-codamol. Wheee!

Comments

[gaspodex.livejournal.com]

lol - well I was going to hunt you down - But you'd allready friended me lol

*Waves*

Nice chatting in the panel.

[mingmerciless.livejournal.com]

Waves...

BTW, MMSed that photo to my friend and, yep, she says she can see why I might have mistaken the back of your head for hers!

[sirmaldaef.livejournal.com]

Having only the exhaustion, not the caffeine and co-codamol, my LJ construction has only just begun and will need to wait till I am next home. But you instructed me to get a LJ account and I complied! Rather unusual behaviour really. Oh my! I can see that both the other comments on this site are from my friends! What have I gotten in to?

Did you scare somebody at Redemption? How? Are you scary? Should I be commenting on your LJ?

[selenay]

*waves back* Good to chat to you in the panel - good to see that you've made it back home as well!

The only problem with cons is that you end up with more friends...wait, why did I call that a problem?

[selenay]

*waves* Hi!

*g* It's definitely the oddest reason for photographing my hair I've had, although not the first request...

[wychwood]

I have a booklist! I was taking notes at the "hidden treasures" panel, and one of the other attendees caught me on the Sunday and said you were planning on doing something about a centralised list. I think I listed almost all the suggestions, except some of mine, which I'll include if I can remember.

Robert Silverberg - Lord Valentine's Castle
Robert Graves - Seven Days in New Crete
Amanda Hemingway - Greenstone Grail (and rest of trilogy)
Sterling E. Lanier - Hiero's Journey and others
David Langford - The Leaky Establishment
Tim Powers - On Stranger Tides, The Anubis Gates, other early books
Robin McKinley - fairytale books, especially Sunshine; The Blue Sword also good
David Eddings - mainstream books; High Hunt, The Losers, and especially a third book title unknown (possibly Regina's Song?)
Robert Forward - Dragon's Egg and Starquake
John Varley - Titan and "In the Hall of the Mountain King" (in The Persistence of Vision)
Suzy McKee Charnas -Walk to the End of the World and Motherlines
Patrick Tilley - Fadeout and Mission (also the Amtrak Wars; apparently first three are quite good?)
DF Jones - Colossus
Roland Green - Peace Company; also apparently some cracking short stories
Robert Asprin - Phule's Company and Phule's Paradise
Octavia Butler - the Patternmaster series, especially Mind of My Mind
Meghan Lindholm - Wizard of Pigeons
Nicola Griffiths - Slow River
Zenna Henderson - the People collection
Diane Duane - the Young Wizards series, also The Door Into Fire and sequels
John M Ford - Star Trek tie-ins, How Much For Just The Planet and The Final Reflection
Peter Milligan - Enigma
Kurt Busiek - Astro City
the Modesty Blaise series

[selenay]

You've gotten into a fun and wonderful world :-) If occasionally rather strange...

I'm hoping that I didn't scare anyone at Redemption, I can be rather hyper when talking about favourite subjects and you should definitely be commenting on my LJ :-) Thanks for coming along to the panel and helping to keep it going with suggestions. It was lovely to meet you - roll on Redemption 09!

[selenay]

Thank you! That's really useful because my notes definitely didn't catch everything :-) I'm planning to put together a central list, possibly with links to LibaryThing, for the Redemption LJ for those who didn't get to the panel - it's time to get those treasures a little less buried :-)

Regina's Song - that was it :-) I knew it began with an R...

[mingmerciless.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it is! I'm due to meet her a week on Wednesday so I'll photograph the back of *her* head and you can see for yourself!

[selenay]

*g* That would be cool! I'd love to see the back-of-my-head duplicate :-)

[wychwood]

Huzzah :) That sounds like a great plan.

Regina's Song - that was it :-) I knew it began with an R...

Oh, good! I thought it was you who'd mentioned that one, so you'd be able to identify it. When I looked on Wikipedia, it was listed with his fantasy, but it was the only other book that wasn't epic fantasy, so I thought it must be the one :)

[selenay]

I love sharing good books around because then other people might share their favourites in return and my reading list will expand.

Er, which isn't always a good thing when the to-read stack is two feet tall :-)

Regina's Song is a rather interesting book - qualifies as fantasy but is nothing like his usual epic fantasy. It's feels like an Eddings book, but with a twist which is why it stood out a bit for me.

Strange World

[sirmaldaef.livejournal.com]

Hyper enthusiasm is good. I may have misidentified myself through use of an obscure ID. At Redmeption my badge said Max, which is in fact my name. We met at the bookstall and making the Red Hand Gang wobblevision.

Re: Strange World

[selenay]

Aha! Yes, I remember you! Sorry, there was another person over the weekend who said they'd be getting an LJ as a result of Redemption so I made an assumption...

Anyway. Welcome! Good to see you've joined us all and can get absorbed by the fun and discussion :-)

Re: Strange World

[sirmaldaef.livejournal.com]

Absorbed. That was a well chosen word. Having a bit more time tonight I have been reading a lot of stuff, and trying to work out what sort of entries I should make and how. To say I feel my brain is close to exploding is a little over-dramatic, and underplays my mental robustness, but with poetic license it is a good description.

And I question the wisdom of my pseudonym.

Re: Strange World

[selenay]

*g* LJ is fun, but it can seem like a slightly strange concept when you're first coming to it.

What does your pseudonym come from or mean? I'm curious now!

Re: Strange World

[sirmaldaef.livejournal.com]

I think I will get LJ. We shall see. You are good at writing a lot. And well.

Sir Maldaef is the party patron in two RPG I run. As such using the name has two flaws. Firstly no one will get it aside from the dozen or so players. Secondly although I think he is pretty cool, it is important that he is on of my characters and not me. People seeing me use him as a name might see too much identification.

So perhaps not that interesting really. I assume that if I read your writings I would find out why you use Selenay 936 (and I thought Selenay was your real name when I met you (not that �real name� is that useful a concept).

Re: Strange World

[selenay]

You are good at writing a lot. And well.

*g* Thank you. I have a serious case of verbal diarrhoea sometimes :-) I just hope to make it entertaining!

People seeing me use him as a name might see too much identification.

Hmm. Possibly. But on the other hand, most people won't know why you've chosen the name so it will become like most other Internet handles - a pattern of letters that people associate with a particular person and their interests. Generally when I see a person's name appearing in a conversation or on LJ, I have a mental association with the kind of thing they talk about and conversations we've shared rather than anything I might know about what their pseud originally meant. Does that make sense to you?

and I thought Selenay was your real name when I met you

You're not the first :-) The 936 is the standard thing I add when Selenay has already been taken on a system and it was originally picked at random, no interesting story there. I have been a fan of Mercedes Lackey's books for a long time and, when I was first trying to choose a handle, I picked the nearest book out of my bookcase and picked the name of (I thought) a relatively minor character. Unfortunately Lackey went and wrote some books featuring her quite prominently so it's not quite as minor a character as I first thought, but usually the only people who recognise it are fellow Mercedes Lackey fans. It's actually worked quite well sometimes in terms of meeting fellow fans and getting chatting.

I don't think any of that is explained in my writings :-) But feel free to read around if you'd like!

[mingmerciless.livejournal.com]

Well, as discussed, here's a photo of the back of Liz's head (clickable thumbnail). When I met her last night for dinner, she did make a comment that I appeared to have been rather busy lately, "running round photographing the back of strangers' heads"!