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Fourcubedish1 Four Cubed The Newsletter of EightSquaredCon, the 2013 Eastercon Issue 1: Friday PM Email: [email protected] Twitter: #Eastercon or 8SqCon When I’m Sixty Four • Genre Get-together (Saturday 7pm): How to get on WiFi Welcome to EightSquaredCon! This is Remove Jaine Fenn. Get a login sheet from hotel reception the con newsletter, FourCubed, which • Steampunk Morality and Victorian —each has two logins on it, for your should be your go-to-source for up-to- Values (Saturday 7pm): Remove phone and computer, each of which is the-minute convention news David Barnett, add Fiona Anderson good for 24 hours. On your device, throughout the weekend. Well, up-to- a nd Chris Butler. (Also, it’s Liesel choose the network ‘swisscom’; then the-day news at any rate. We’ll do at Schwarz, not Schwartz – our from your web browser you can log least one issue every day. apologies.) in. You’ll need to keep the window Michael Abbott open (laptop) or save a bookmark There are lots of different ways to get Times and Places (phone/tablet) to stay logged in. stuff into the newsletter. Drop stories The Dealers’ Room (at the Having said that, we appear to be off with us (we’re in Pine on the 2nd northeastern end of the ground floor) trying to set a record for ‘most people floor) or at Ops, email us at opens 10am each morning and closes logged on to one hotel Swisscom [email protected], or do at 6pm, except for Monday, when it server at once’. It’s the modern anything seriously embarrassing closes at 3pm. They welcome equivalent of cramming people into a while there’s someone around with a everyone and their wallets. phone box. camera. The Art Show (on the 2nd floor, at the Opening Ceremony Review We’d particularly like to hear from east end) is open until 8pm Friday, you if you’re running an awesome Hey! There’s a con. It’s happening. 9am to 9pm Saturday, and then only program item this weekend—plug it! 9am-11am on Sunday; please make If you’ve been to an awesome sure you make time to come and programme item or restaurant— enjoy looking around before it’s too review it! late. Get a bidder number from the Induction Reduction desk; it’s not your con number. We’re sorry, but the induction loop is Volunteer Call not currently working. A gopher has Eastercon runs entirely on volunteer been sent to look for a very special labour; every part of the convention is cable. put together and staffed by Programme Changes volunteers. Volunteering is also great 50 Scheds of Grey The Programme Guide went to press fun, and you can get involved this If you have a smartphone, point it at while we were still finalising the weekend. We need gophers, who do http://8squared2013.sched.org for the programme, and since then we’ve all sorts of odd jobs—go to ops. Tech 1 online version of the programme. It’s made some changes to who’s on also need volunteers, and offer free searchable, and will be kept up to w hich item. Here are the changes for Snickers. And if anyone fancies date over the weekend. Friday and Saturday: helping out on a newsletter, come and find us. You could be a cub reporter! • Head to Head: E Nesbit and C S Random Plug #1 Lewis (Friday 8pm): add Sarah Ash Access All Areas A major highlight of Saturday morning comes when Lee Hanson of and Bridget Wilkinson. Green Room volunteers are buying the JB Priestley Society tells us that • Underground London (Friday 9pm): drinks for panelists, and should Bradford turns out to have been good add Mike Shevdon. therefore be allowed to take priority for something other than curry. Come • Genre Get-together (Saturday at the bars. Please don’t be grumpy, along and learn about Bradford’s 11am): add Jaine Fenn. and allow them to cheerfully go most famous science fictional son. • Reinventing Urban Fantasy ahead and smooth your programme (Saturday 1pm): add CE Murphy. participants’ throats. Thank you! Parents Please Note • The Best Books of 2012 (Saturday Austin Benson The creche is in room G12. 7pm): add Paul Cockburn. Restaurant Reviews Random Plug #2 What do you call...? Akbars Indian Cuisine: 1276 Leeds We’re currently enjoying the sound Farah Mendlesohn asked us to let you Road BD3 8LF, 01274 773311— Not so check for Zulu Tradition, from 8pm all know that her hearing loss has nearby restaurant (taxi), quite good, till 10pm in Main. Songs, dance and worsened and she’s now legally deaf. although noisy. It probably helps to drums from Zulu cultural heritage. That means that if you want her to make a reservation in advance, Here’s a pic to whet your appetite: hear what you’re saying, she needs to although they managed to seat six of see your face. In general, do us within 15 minutes anyway. All we remember that people around the con tried (Balti dishes) were great, may have invisible disabilities, and including the nut and fruit nans. act accordingly. Jan van’t Ent Random Plug #3 Hanq's Diner is next to the petrol Come along to the TAFF Q&A tonight station opposite the Cedar Court at 8pm. Tag your questions with Hotel. As its name suggests, this an #askTAFF and they’ll be read out. American style diner with steaks and [What’s wrong with putting up your hamburgers being the main fare. The hand?—Ed] cheeseburger was very tasty, if I Will Walk Ten Satellite of Love slightly underdone, and it came with Thousand Miles Progress Report 2 for Eastercon next real chips, not American fries. For Well, not necessarily this weekend. year is now available for you to those who like to start the day with But if you’re wearing a pedometer collect. Also there might be an pancakes or waffles, it also does this weekend, let us know your albatross. American style breakfasts. stepcounts; we’ll print the highest for Steve Rogerson bragging rights. Cash In Last night was good. We went for a Slight Technical The nearest cashpoint with free withdrawals is located at the Shell lovely meal at Aakash, which claims Inaccuracies #1 garage across the roundabout. to be the biggest Indian restaurant in In the Useful Information booklet, all England, if not the world. The buffet the function/programme rooms that Directions on foot: leave the hotel car was great and catered for everyone. are described as being on the First park and follow the pavement on the It's popular so make reservations. Floor are in fact on the Second Floor. right until you reach the pedestrian Julie McMurray crossing. The garage is the other side Chris O’Shea of the road; a slow 6 minute walk. I am absolutely not recommending Wedding Bells the Sparrow Bier Cafe on the North Well, we were all gobsmacked to hear In the Swim Parade (an easy stroll from the of Chris Bell & Roger Burton-West’s We all know that you should make Midland Hotel). Amongst the dozen nuptials. Congratulations to the sure your regular congoing day interesting keg and cask beers they happy couple, and also photographic includes thirty minutes of your are currently serving one of my evidence: favourite vigorous exercise. But if favourites and I don't want you lot that’s not an option, the Health Club coming along to drink it all! opening times will be: Helen Cross ToDo List #1 Friday/Monday 9am - 7pm (kids 10-6) Unless you’ve been under a rock Saturday 8am - 8pm (kids 9-7) you’ll know that next year’s World SF Sunday 8am - 8pm (kids 9-6) Convention will be in London. So Monday 9am - 7pm (kids 10-6) excited! At any rate, if you’ve been Lost waiting to upgrade your Loncon3 1 Ivy green rucksack with friend or pre-supporting membership, multicoloured pocket and Pikachu now is the time. Come see the and skull badges attached. If found Loncon3 table this weekend to get please take to Ops (Sycamore room on your full attending membership at 2nd floor). rock bottom rate. An installment plan is available for the brassic, and the Code of Conduct Update rates will rise after May 1st. See you If you wish to avoid giving offense at in London next August! this convention, please do not leave women in Liam’s hotel room. This issue was produced by Alison Scott, with help from Flick, Jan van't Ent, John Coxon and Steven Cain. Cub reporter: Marianne Cain. Masthead by Sue Mason. We hope shortly to be dongle positive. We’re following #Eastercon and #8SqCon on Twitter and Flickr. Four Cubed The Newsletter of EightSquaredCon, the 2013 Eastercon Issue 2: Sat am Email: [email protected] Twitter: #Eastercon or 8SqCon Fabulous Programme Items! Zulu Tradition The BSFA Wants Your Ears As well as the JB Priestly lecture at “Is that distant thunder I hear?” Dr Louise Livesey (Ruskin College 11am in Rowan, Saturday’s daytime “No, dear, it’s just the Zulus.” Oxford) will present the fifth BSFA programme includes items with two “Oh, that’s alright then.” Lecture on Saturday at 5pm in Main of our Guests of Honour. —Fran Dowd P rogramme. The title is A Highly Zulu Tradition seemed like a strange Political Act: speech, silence, hearing and At 2pm in Main, Anne Sudworth talks choice for an Eastercon but turned out sexual violence, a subject that should be about her wonderful art and, at to be an amazing one.
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