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Jetse
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Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 9:25 pm |
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Joined: Tue Mar 06, 2007 6:11 pm Posts: 189 Location: 's-Hertogenbosch
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Sorry about the short notice, but here comes, for the first time in over a year...
TTACon 9
Date: Saturday February 9, from early afternoon onwards;
Place: London
Venue: Filthy McNasty
Adress: 68 Amwell Street,, London,, EC1R 1UU(copy & paste this in Google Maps, or -- as described by Dave Matthew): Quote: It's about ten minutes from Kings Cross on foot. (Leave the station, turn left, keep walking up the hill, turn right when you see the tapas bar on the other side of the road).
Special Guests: Ellen Datlow, Pat Cadigan, John & Judith Clute;
Also attending: a variety of people from Interzone & Black Static.
Beers on tap: Guinness, Hoegaarden, Red Stripe, Adnams and a large variety of whisky... 
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Aliette de Bodard
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Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 7:35 am |
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Joined: Fri Mar 16, 2007 6:50 am Posts: 158 Location: Paris, France
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Blech. The only Saturday in February when I'm not free
I hope there will be other TTAcons...
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Dave Mathew
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Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:22 am |
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Joined: Tue Jul 03, 2007 8:09 am Posts: 55
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Those directions of mine are really rough-and-ready, but that's how it was described to me fourteen years ago and I managed to find it, so it should be okay... I don't know the names of the roads, but if you're really stuck all the cabbies know Filthy's. And I suppose I was saying ten minutes because I know the way and I walk fast; it might be closer to fifteen. And I hope that tapas bar is still there, for your orientation! I haven't been to Filthy's for a little while. Enough disclaimers? Oh, and one more thing: my directions are turn LEFT if you come out of Kings Cross/St Pancras. If you're arriving by Kings Cross Thameslink you will need to turn right out of the station (and you'll get there faster).
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Andrew Hook
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Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 2:57 pm |
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Joined: Mon Mar 05, 2007 8:50 pm Posts: 731
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We launched Jai Clare's book there in November and it's a great little venue. About fifteen minutes from the station sounds about right. Hope to come.
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Paul Raven
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Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 4:18 pm |
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Joined: Tue Mar 06, 2007 9:16 pm Posts: 179 Location: Velcro City
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Dave Mathew wrote: Those directions of mine are really rough-and-ready, but that's how it was described to me fourteen years ago and I managed to find it, so it should be okay... I don't know the names of the roads, but if you're really stuck all the cabbies know Filthy's. And I suppose I was saying ten minutes because I know the way and I walk fast; it might be closer to fifteen. And I hope that tapas bar is still there, for your orientation! I haven't been to Filthy's for a little while. Enough disclaimers? Oh, and one more thing: my directions are turn LEFT if you come out of Kings Cross/St Pancras. If you're arriving by Kings Cross Thameslink you will need to turn right out of the station (and you'll get there faster).
Alternatively, Google Maps will sort you out. I just tried to embed the URL, but it's too long. Just do a search, you'll find it.
Hope I can make it along - be nice to put faces to some of the names and email addresses! 
_________________ "I have a fatal compulsion to find a kind of higher sense in things that make no sense at all."
Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
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friendlygun
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:21 pm |
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Joined: Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:37 pm Posts: 174 Location: Brighton, UK
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London eh? Much better than Cambridge for me - less chance of falling asleep on a train and being stuck there, for a start... 
_________________ Shaun C. Green
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Literature, gaming, punk rock... and all that.
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iansales
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Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 9:36 am |
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Joined: Tue Jun 05, 2007 7:19 am Posts: 243 Location: Sheffield, UK
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I've done that. When I lived in Stevenage - fell asleep on the train returning from London, and woke up in Cambridge at 3 a.m.
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friendlygun
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Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 12:47 pm |
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Joined: Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:37 pm Posts: 174 Location: Brighton, UK
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Clearly the city is to blame - it feeds on the latent narcolepsy of its victims...
_________________ Shaun C. Green
Nostalgia For Infinity
Literature, gaming, punk rock... and all that.
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GaryC
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Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 5:50 pm |
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Joined: Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:39 pm Posts: 80 Location: Aldershot, Hampshire
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I can't make this one. Shame. Hopefully next time.
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Tony
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Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 7:21 pm |
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Joined: Mon Mar 05, 2007 2:13 pm Posts: 868 Location: The Village
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Might be worth posting event's info on Facebook.
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Andy
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 9:53 am |
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Joined: Fri Feb 23, 2007 3:14 pm Posts: 1467 Location: Interzone
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Interzone has a facebook thing but I don't really know how to use it other than ignore "you've been bitten by a vampire" stuff (don't get it), so this might be a good time to ask if anybody wants to play with it on behalf of IZ? Good way to get a bit more involved in the magazine, and you could do what you liked, so you might enjoy it. 
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Jetse
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Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 10:22 pm |
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Joined: Tue Mar 06, 2007 6:11 pm Posts: 189 Location: 's-Hertogenbosch
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Booked hotel & flight, so hope to see quite a few of you there!
Aliette--
I certainly hope there will be more this year! Obviously we will discuss this at TTACon 9, and I am for one in the Summer.
I do know that the launch of Andrew Humphrey's Other Voices is in Norwich on March 1, and that it might be a joint launch with his novel Alison, according to the grapevine...

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Tony
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Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 9:57 am |
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Joined: Mon Mar 05, 2007 2:13 pm Posts: 868 Location: The Village
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OK, my first TTA con...
Anything in particular happening?
Worth bringing a camera?
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Aliette de Bodard
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Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 11:34 am |
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Joined: Fri Mar 16, 2007 6:50 am Posts: 158 Location: Paris, France
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Quote: Aliette--
I certainly hope there will be more this year! Obviously we will discuss this at TTACon 9, and I am for one in the Summer.
Cool 
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Vague
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Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 11:49 am |
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Joined: Tue Dec 11, 2007 12:28 pm Posts: 67 Location: Cumbria, UK
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Quote: I certainly hope there will be more this year! Obviously we will discuss this at TTACon 9, and I am for one in the Summer.
Further north than London and Cambridge? Pretty please? 
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