One week to WorldCon starts. The Librarian character in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series gets transformed into an orang-utan. He takes great personal offense when people refer to him as a monkey. Chimps and orang-utans are apes not monkeys. But still… …
8 Days to the World Science Fiction Convention. Just found out that I’ll be accepting my prize for the short story competition at the awards ceremony on the Friday night. For some reason monkeys seem particularly popular with computer programmers …
9 Days to go to the start of the World Science Fiction Convention in Melbourne. I recently had the pleasure of reading The Society of Sinister Simians by Chet Phillips. The book is full of gorgeous illustrations and funny character …