On the way to Tokyo I stopped at Shizuoka. Near Higashi-Shizuoka railway station they’ve assembled a giant Gundam robot. All hail our new robotic overlords. In Tokyo I visited the Tokyo Game Show, the biggest computer games expo in the …
I arrived in Japan a couple of weeks ago. I visited friends in Osaka and then went out to Kanazawa. It has one of Japan’s most famous gardens – Kenrokuen. Then I stayed overnight in Shirakawa-Go in Gifu Prefecture. The …
I recently spent five glorious days at the World Science Fiction Convention in Melbourne. It was my third WorldCon. Australia has hosted four World Science Fiction conventions (all of them in Melbourne), roughly one every ten years. I went to …