Missing the Worldcon Dealers' Room

This is always one of my highlights of Worldcon, boggling at the range of SFF/cult/horror merchandise on offer. I can spend literally hours in there, browsing stuff. And often buy too much. Which would not have been so big a problem this time with a con in Scotland. But can be a big problem when coming home by plane!

The Glasgow Worldcon has an online list of dealers who were planning on coming, as of mid July. But it is absolutely no substitute for being there in person, and immersed in the sheer mass of awesome stuff to browse and buy.

I may have to indulge in some not-at-Worldcon retail therapy to make up for missing out ...

Glasgow Worldcon viewing

Browsing the Glasgow Worldcon programme items I’d noted as want to watch tomorrow. I highlighted 20 for just that one day alone! But luckily only 1/20 isn’t being recorded for later replay/catch up watch. So if I’m awake tomorrow afternoon I’ll watch it live. I am using the online streaming part of my attending ticket to view these.

I haven’t tried using this Worldcon’s remote viewing service RingCentral before. But am crossing fingers that it works well enough! I don’t expect to watch many programme events live. But will be watching a huge number - health permitting - on catchup until the end of 2024.

Personal message from Big Finish chairman Jason Haigh-Ellery

Now on the Big Finish website - and managed to crash the website when it went live ;)

Meanwhile I am still missing multiple downloads and orders on the new website. I am still hanging on to the old app for now, though it can no longer download additional content.

But I am mightily relieved that I have managed to download those audio files I can from the website, in DRM-free MP3 and M4B format (Apple lossless). 440GB worth of audio files. About 700 audio stories. Which I am now backing up in multiple places.

I would like access to my recent purchases though, currently still missing in action.