


Sunday, 2pm: Comics Panel with Dan Abnett, Graham McNeill and Pat Kelleher. Sunday, Noon: Has Genre Conquered the Mainstream? A podcast with Ian Whates, Damien Walter, Paul Kane and John Weir. Sunday, 11am: Who Reads the Genre and Why? With Damien Walter, Jon Weir and David Thomas Moore. Saturday, 10pm: Memory Lane (Your Favourite Genre Books) with Mark Morris, Pete Crowther and Juliet McKenna. And there’s also a big workshop component involved, with such luminaries as Graham Joyce helping out newbie writers. If you’re a Doctor Who fan, there’s a panel devoted to the books, including authors such as Mark Morris and Sarah Pinborough. There are loads of authors going (with Dan Abnett and Alastair Reynolds as Guests of Honour), and an impressive video programme too. Anyway, halfway through moving house next weekend (the movers pack on the Friday, then move on the Monday), I’ll be attending Alt Fiction at the QUAD in Derby, which, if last year was anything to go by, will be excellent.
