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Tonight I'm full of information about Romanian science fiction. Why Romanian? Because Christian Tamas from the Romanian Science Fiction and Fantasy Society let me know that the second Romanian SF anthology is being launched and the annual Romanian SF awards are being awarded on Friday and has introduced me to the world of Romanian SF&F. Since I'll be in Fisher Library all day Friday, I'm posting today.

You can find out more on the RSFFS website. If you have a moment on Friday, click on the website, find out about the awards, explore a different branch of speculative fiction.

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I didn't write all those useful posts without getting up to mischief earlier. It would be unGillianish of me, after all.

My early mischief mainly consisted in working with my students so that all of us tell extraordinary tales of our extraordinary lives (and we all do have extraordinary lives - which was a relief) in such a way that the listeners are convinced we're telling tall stories.

We also looked at the difference between the stories told about Richard I and the lesser reality that is the human being.

It's all in the telling...

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Today I have deep thoughts on the relationship between narrative tropes and social change (also on lack of social change - on reinforcing unquestioned positions). These thoughts must remain in my brain, alas, because writing them out isn't on my list of things that must be done and all these things must be done before midday. If you're coming to the Sydney Freecon and urgently need to hear these thoughts, I can be bribed with hot drinks.