🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <shay-2212940939490001@huntsman.cs.uwa.oz.au>
           shay@tartarus.uwa.edu.au "Shay Telfer" writes:

>Well, I must say that Terry Pratchett was both famous, and a really great
>GoH when he was at SwanCon last year. I don't know how much the con
>provided in the way of airfares, but he brought his family out as well,
>and he really got on well with the fen. Especially memorable was the
>icecream banquet...

Do I really want to know about the icecream banquet?  :-)

>This year we had Sylvia Anderson (of Thunderbirds fame), who certainly
>provided lots of info about all the series she has worked with etc., and
>did interact to a certain degree, but IMHO, not as "all round" a GoH as
>Terry Pratchett (who tended to go beyond his own work and investigate
>other aspects of fantasy etc. in general).

Pterry is not only an "all-round" GoH but also an "all-round" person.
He reminds me in some ways of a lecturer when I was at university who
could normally be found in the evenings in a college room with a group
of students, discussing anything that came to hand.  Generally, a great
interest in everything (and it shows in his books)...

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