The Goldfish Chronicles

I went to my first Amazon fishbowl the other day - these are internal events with singers or authors discussing their works for an hour at lunch. Think brown bag, but with content creators not coders.

This one was with sci-fi author Charles Stross - and despite prevaricating a bit (I had work to do), I ended up going down and enjoyed it immensely. Mr Stross read from his new book, Halting State; a 2nd-person mystery novel, set a few years in the future, and then answered questions. I really enjoyed the reading, and it all ended well when I was one of the winners of a raffle to get a free copy of the book (subsequently signed).

Many thanks to Bjorn at SourceLabs for poking me to go - he’s a big Stross fan and knew about the Amazon event before I did as he was in contact with the author for another event he was doing.

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