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  1. On 1/17/2024 at 9:12 PM, williamjm said:

    Flying would definitely be the fastest and cheapest option (although perhaps the price is closer if you have luggage), but you are obviously not seeing as much of the country. Glasgow Airport is pretty close to the convention centre (unlike Glasgow Prestwick which is a long way from Glasgow).

    Just be aware that London 'suffers' from multiple airport syndrome, please check CHECK that any connecting onward flight to Glasgow is leaving from the same airport as your arriving international flight.  Connection time between any two of Gatwick, Heathrow and Stansted is recommended two to three hours.
     

    Echoing William's comments, the train journey can be fraught with cancellations, delays, strikes, but is a more relaxing (IMHO) way to get from London to Scottish cities.  The time is a major factor - fastest service London to Glasgow is maybe 4hrs 30 minutes.

  2. Does anyone have a feel for what sort of discount the conventions manages to agree with the convention hotels?  I am looking on Expedia just now at the seven hotels listed on the WorldCon website, and prices being quoted for them are off-putting for a similar period as the convention.
     

    Can anyone recall details of the differential for previous WorldCons?

  3. 1 hour ago, Daeron the Daring said:

    I'd rather have another TWOW sample chapter than any DnE or FnB content at any quantity.

    Highly doubtful GRRM will do that, ISTR him saying that there would be no further tWoW chapters until the book itself.  The only situation I can see this is happening is when he actually finishes tWoW, and is persuaded to release one more, to start the hype build-up for the book release.

     

  4. 23 hours ago, Feologild said:

    Just finished watching the first episode.


    I thought it was very good.

    Also the scene at the end where all the lords pledge their support of Rhaenyra, made me think of what happened in England in during the reign of Henry I when he had no male hair and named his daughter Matilda as his hair, but than her cousin Stephen stole the throne after Henry I died in 1135. And England and Normandy went into a civil war lasting 19 years, I wonder if George R.R Martin used the Anarchy as an inspiration of the Targaryen civil war.

    GRRM himself has said that Henry I and the Matilda/Stephen civil war that followed was a direct inspiration for Dance of the Dragons.

  5. Have to say, blisteringly disappointed in this book, and increasingly the series as a whole.  Pairs of characters or individual characters just blundering around the land achieving very little of anything in this latest installment. 

    What was purpose of Miri's interlude with her captor?  Binabik and his wife meandering around Aldeheorte, with their daughter and spouse doing the same elsewhere.  Pasavalles as the baddie in Hayholt is nothing compared to Pyraxes, even Inch was better written.

    I am still hoping that TW pulls it off in the final volume of the series with some decent writing, but this is nothing like as good as MST tri/tetrology was.

  6. For those in the US who are unaware, the latest series of GBBO should be available on Netflix on the Friday after the airing of it in the UK on a Tuesday night - so the same week, but three days later.

    As usual, not doing too well on my predictions for who will do well.  Based on review of all the contestants' postings on Instagram, I touted Tom and Jarzinho to go pretty far in the competition.  Eliminated in the first two weeks were - Tom and Jarzinho.
     

  7. I enjoyed A Brightness, especially the links that it built between The Sarantine Mosaic and Children.  It has also given me an interest in reading more of the real world history that formed the basis of the story.

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