Yesterday's afternoon at the Glasgow Worldcon was nice, too. I went to a talk by the Astronomer Royal of Scotland about if we live in a simulation. Of course, the answer was the it's a metaphysical question, not one that science can answer, but she played with the idea, and she was funny.
The next 2 talks I went to were about tropes in sf and bad science in sf. They were mostly light and funny. One thing that surprised me was the comment that appealing too much to the multiverse could be a sign of lazy writing.
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