[LMB] OT: Blue Metropolis festival in Montreal, Robert Sawyer, and the iLiad

[Francis Turner]

The iLiad is the rolls royce of ebook readers (and priced accordingly)

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 6:28 AM, Elvi Dalgaard <elvi at vl.videotron.ca> wrote:
> Coupla things that are related to my recent attendance at Robert J.
>  Sawyer's reading at the Blue Metropolis Literary festival, in Montreal.
>  First, the "Sci Fi ghetto effect" struck in force, and there were only
>  about 20 people at the reading. Pretty sad, when you look at Sawyer's
>  awards worldwide, to think that we can only muster that size of a crowd!
>  But the fact that it's a literary festival and not a Sci Fi one makes a
>  big difference, of course.
>
>  Anyway, I met the author and he was really nice and friendly, and seems
>  to write a good story, so I thought since herself doesn't have anything
>  in this year's Hugo competition, I'd put in a plug for Sawyer for anyone
>  attending Denvention. I looked at joining just to vote, and $50 is a bit
>  steep, unfortunately...
>
>  And in eBook reader news, a fan gave Sawyer an iLiad, which looks like a
>  really cool one to me, but I'm no expert. Anybody here have any
>  experience with this one?
>
>  Elvi
>
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