With the show done and most of the mess cleared up, I’m just about back to staying up late and tinkering with this site. GameCity Squared is all done, and the work of thinking about GameCity Next is already well underway. I’m going to try and get some thoughts down about it here before I forget them, as the delineation between this place and the project site are now a lot clearer.
Lots to think about, lots to do. It’s only December tomorrow, and it feels like New Year already.
Yesterday, I learnt the sad and shocking news that Rob Holdstock had passed away – almost a month to the day after I met him for the first time at the show. In the series of conversations I had with him leading up to the Elite 25 event, in which he was reading from his novella ‘The Dark Wheel’ he was a disarmingly open, generous and lovely bloke. Rob was one of the first to get involved in the whole project, and waded in enthusiastically to celebrating this project with us. He was concerned to do the best job he could and sweetly chastised us for the excess of getting him a first class train ticket to Nottingham from London. It’s refreshing, humbling and invigorating to come across people like him, and disorientating, unfair and utterly sad when they’re taken away. Rest in peace, Robert Holdstock.