So today I was going to write about what I will be doing at BristolCon, but we’ve just had another author express interest in coming and I’ll probably be giving up some or all of my programme slots to make room for him. It’s not as if anyone will be coming to the convention to see me, after all.

I can, however, talk a bit about the Festival of Literature. There are a couple of signings happening at Forbidden Planet on the Friday, for which I shall be doing some guest wrangling, but I’m also on two panels.

On the Thursday evening Juliet McKenna, Jo Hall and Gareth Powell will be talking about speculative fiction. I’ll be chairing this one. And on Friday evening I’ll be joining Justina Robson and Tim Maughan to talk about politics in science fiction. Tom Sykes of UWE will chair.

I guess I don’t have that many readers in Bristol, but if you are local please consider coming along to one of these events. Firstly this is the first year for the Festival of Literature, and we’d love it to be a success so we can have more of them. And in addition we’d like the SF&F-related items to be a success because then, of the Festival does continue, they’ll want more such items in later years.

You can read more about these events on the BristolCon website, and you can book tickets from the Festival website.