Guest of honour in the glowing sunlight
An excerpt from Iain M Banks' Guest of Honour speech, in which he is answering a question about how his writing career had got started. (Thanks to Mecon and Iain M Banks for permission to post this.)
But I spent most of the time just sitting around and talking.
Paul Cornell,
The two Annas,
The two Ia(i)ns, McDonald and Banks
Apart from the GoH speech the only panel I attended was a discussion of Doctor Who. None of my shots of the panel itself were particularly good, but here is a much better one of two of the panellists beforehand:
and here is another of the panellists plus two audience members immediately afterwards:
Paul Cornell, Leah Moore, Caroline
We settled back to chatting again, so that an observer who had left and returned might have believed that some of us hadn't moved (indeed, I believe that one of us hadn't)
Sleepy Paul, Caroline,
while at the other end of the room the whiskey tasting was in full flow:

Things seemed to be going well for the whiskey tasters!
Not sure if I will make it again today, but thanks to all for organising and doing it.