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Below are the most recent 50 friends' journal entries.
- 2312, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Throne of the Crescent Moon, Saladin Ahmed (DAW; Gollancz ’13)
- Ironskin, Tina Connolly (Tor)
- The Killing Moon, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- The Drowning Girl, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
- Glamour in Glass, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)
- After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, Nancy Kress (Tachyon)
- On a Red Station, Drifting, Aliette de Bodard (Immersion Press)
- “The Stars Do Not Lie,” Jay Lake (Asimov’s 10-11/12)
- “All the Flavors,” Ken Liu (GigaNotoSaurus 2/1/12)
- “Katabasis,” Robert Reed (F&SF 11-12/12)
- “Barry’s Tale,” Lawrence M. Schoen (Buffalito Buffet)
- “Close Encounters,” Andy Duncan (The Pottawatomie Giant & Other Stories)
- “The Pyre of New Day,” Catherine Asaro (The Mammoth Books of SF Wars)
- “The Waves,” Ken Liu (Asimov’s 12/12)
- “The Finite Canvas,” Brit Mandelo (Tor.com 12/5/12)
- “Swift, Brutal Retaliation,” Meghan McCarron (Tor.com 1/4/12)
- “Portrait of Lisane da Patagnia,” Rachel Swirsky (Tor.com 8/22/12)
- “Fade to White,” Catherynne M. Valente (Clarkesworld 8/12)
- “Immersion,” Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld 6/12)
- “Robot,” Helena Bell (Clarkesworld 9/12)
- “Fragmentation, or Ten Thousand Goodbyes,” Tom Crosshill (Clarkesworld 4/12)
- “Nanny’s Day,” Leah Cypess (Asimov’s 3/12)
- “Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream,” Maria Dahvana Headley (Lightspeed 7/12)
- “The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species,” Ken Liu (Lightspeed8/12)
- “Five Ways to Fall in Love on Planet Porcelain,” Cat Rambo (Near + Far)
- Beasts of the Southern Wild, Benh Zeitlin (director), Benh Zeitlin and Lucy Abilar (writers), (Journeyman/Cinereach/Court 13/Fox Searchlight)
- The Avengers, Joss Whedon (director) and Joss Whedon and Zak Penn (writers), (Marvel/Disney)
- The Cabin in the Woods, Drew Goddard (director), Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard (writers) (Mutant Enemy/Lionsgate)
- The Hunger Games, Gary Ross (director), Gary Ross, Suzanne Collins, and Billy Ray (writers), (Lionsgate)
- John Carter, Andrew Stanton (director), Michael Chabon, Mark Andrews, and Andrew Stanton (writers), (Disney)
- Looper, Rian Johnson (director), Rian Johnson (writer), (FilmDistrict/TriStar)
- Fair Coin, E.C. Myers (Pyr)
- Iron Hearted Violet, Kelly Barnhill (Little, Brown)
- Black Heart, Holly Black (McElderry; Gollancz)
- Above, Leah Bobet (Levine)
- The Diviners, Libba Bray (Little, Brown; Atom)
- Vessel, Sarah Beth Durst (S&S/McElderry)
- Seraphina, Rachel Hartman (Random House; Doubleday UK)
- Enchanted, Alethea Kontis (Harcourt)
- Every Day, David Levithan (Knopf)
- Summer of the Mariposas, Guadalupe Garcia McCall (Tu Books)
- Railsea, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan)
- Above World, Jenn Reese (Candlewick)
- Cats can now open doors. Next up: Can openers
(tags: cats video ) - Sexual squeamishness does women no favours
(tags: sex society women ) - Iain Banks comes out in favour of Independence
(tags: scotland independence IainBanks ) - Ukip donor brands women 'hostile' for wearing trousers #youcouldntmakeitup
(tags: epicwtf women ukip ) - Opening The Lid On StrongBox, The Anonymous Leak System Coded By Aaron Swartz
(tags: security media viafanf ) - Britain does best in LGBT review of Europe.
(tags: uk europe lgbt ) - More than half of the world's population lives inside this circle
(tags: world population )
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3:04PM
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What Did The Protagonist Miss? After a long absence, Hollywood screenwriter and Friend of Venture Todd Alcott is back at his old game of analyzing episodes of The Venture Bros., and, completist that he is, he's hell-bent on catching up with everything he missed. Starting with, weirdly enough, 2003's pilot episode, "The Terrible Secret of Turtle Bay." Check out his website HERE. We Love You, JP P.S. Shirt Club. Soon... | |
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7:33PM
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Star Trek Into Awesome (a short review, with spoilers) It was exactly what I was expecting, only better. I was expecting lens flare, a lack of character stuff, lots of big explosions in spaaaaace, a bad guy I didn't care about, and to thoroughly enjoy myself - that being what I got in the first one. What I got was that, only with more character stuff than I was expecting, a bad guy I felt at least some empathy for, and enjoying myself more than thoroughly! ( Let the spoilerification commence!Collapse ) Original post on Dreamwidth - there are | |
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2:11PM
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As pointed out to me on FB
The detail that caught my eye was The competition had an interesting way of voting. Because lot of citizens did not have phones, viewers would turn on lights if they liked the song or turned them off if they didn’t like the song. According to load experienced on the electrical network, points were granted accordingly to each contestant. | |
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What Do You Mean It's Not Whole Wheat!? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/faildogsc http://cheezburger.com/7383678464 Lolola says My cat pooter has become the bread cat. The hero my apartment deserves! Squee! Spotter: Lolola | |
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5:03PM
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3:21PM
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Nebula Award Winners! http://whatever.scalzi.com/2013/05/19/ne http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=21885
Novel: Novella: Novelette: Short Story: Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Solstice Awards were awarded to editor Ginjer Buchanan and astronomer and entertainer Carl Sagan, the latter of which was accepted by his son Nick Sagan. The Kevin O’Donnell Jr. Service Award was awarded to Michael Payne. (The list above borrowed from this Tor.com posting. You may also see results on SFWA’s own site.) Also, of course, we formally invested Gene Wolfe with the title of Grand Master. He was gracious and touching in his speech, which is of course no surprise at all. I am delighted to say that my final Nebula Award ceremony as president went along swimmingly, with Robert Silverberg as our emcee. I got to introduced Bob and give him some good-natured ribbing; he got up and dropped a house on me, which may go down as one of the highlights of my time as SFWA President. If you ever get a chance to get zinged by Grand Master Silverberg, I highly recommend it. Congratulations to the winners, commiserations to the other most worthy nominees, and many thanks to the volunteers and other who made the Nebula Ceremony, and indeed the entire Nebula Weekend, possible. It was a great time. As a fan, I was thrilled. As the President of SFWA, I was relieved.   | |
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12:00PM
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Lunar Hook Shot It’s been a while since I’ve posted a cool close-up picture of the Moon from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (or LRO), and this one is too nifty not to share: What you’re looking at is a region about a kilometer (0.6 miles) across not far from an impact crater—the actual crater is off the frame, below and to the left. Probably a billion years ago or so, something the size of a house slammed into the Moon, carving out a crater a few hundred meters across. When it did, several hundred thousand tons of lunar surface were blasted out of the hole. Erupting into the sky, it spread out in all directions, including straight up, forming a huge plume. This superheated material expanded outward, blowing like a wind on the airless surface. When the dust literally settled, it formed hundreds of linear striations, all pointing back to the crater. And now, today, we see an echo of that event, strewn across the surface. This crater is located pretty far north, so the Sun is low to the horizon. That makes long shadows, and accentuates the topography of the local terrain. You can really see all the bumps and wiggles of the surface, and those long narrow fingers are obvious. This image is one part of a much longer stripe of lunar surface seen by LRO. While I was perusing it, I actually smiled in delight when I zoomed in and saw this: That white spot is a boulder a few meters in size. You can see its shadow going off to the upper right. But do you see that curved dotted line, a J-shape that ends at the boulder? That’s its track in the surface! The boulder looks like it rolled, moving from the lower left to the upper right, and then took a right-handed hook before coming to rest. If you look carefully, you’ll see that just before it stopped rolling it was on the upper left edge of a small depression, and then rolled into it. The dashed pattern in the track is probably due to irregularities in the shape of the rock as it rolled. I love pictures like this! It shows the imprint (literally) of motion, in a landscape that appears forever frozen in time. Inset here is another such image from a bigger rock, where the track and shadows from other rocks are easier to see as well. The path of the rock gently curves as it follows the local curve of the ground. All of these scenes can be found in the high-res image from LRO, and I invite you to take a look for yourself and see what you can discover. It’s amazing to think that we can sit in the luxury of our home environment here on Earth, and peruse pictures of the Moon taken by a probe that’s been orbiting our nearest neighbor for the past four years now, pictures which have a resolution of one meter per pixel. We already live in the future, and it’s brought to you by SCIENCE. | |
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11:55AM
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8:00AM
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12:00AM
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May 19, 2013 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/smbc-comi  Hey geeks! James has a further announcement regarding their new channel. Please give it a look. | |
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10:56AM
james_nicoll Link |
urbophobia in the London Free Press Today, in the new dark age, we live in cities [...] Also posted at Dreamwidth, where there are | |
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10:54AM
james_nicoll Link |
And another one goes under the bus
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10:55AM
anton_p_nym Link |
Long weekend agenda, haunt the balcony Happy Victoria Day to my fellow Canadians. Hope you're enjoying weather ad delightful as I am in sunny London, Ontario; I'm typing this on my balcony as I wait for brunch to finish, on my Surface Pro, to take best advantage of the sun. Today's going to be a slow day, I think; aside from some laundry (as the laundry room will be closed tomorrow for the observed holiday) I'm going to plan no chores. Tonight's menu will be pork tenderloin roasted in barbeque sauce, on a bed of rice with mixed vegetables, paired with a Niagara white Zinfandel in chilled glass. If possible, served "al fresco" on my balcony... assuming the pollen count permits, that is. I'm feeling far too lazy to go out to watch fireworks, so I think I'll just catch them from the balcony too. Then early to bed, I think, given the early waking I had today thanks to allergies. Tomorrow, well, I don't know what I'll do I think I'll decide that tomorrow. -- Steve is feeling lazy enough that he's at risk of being classified as a form of mineral. Current Mood: Lazy | |
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2:00PM
22wordsblog Link |
16-year-old skateboarder lands a 1080 http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/19/16-y http://twentytwowords.com/?p=75017 Mitchie Brusco becomes the first person to complete a 1080 at the X Games. (That means spinning around 3 times, for those who aren’t into skateboarding or math.)… (via Reddit) | |
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2:00AM
22wordsblog Link |
Bic uses the same photo to advertise pens and razors [2 pictures] http://twentytwowords.com/?p=74651 A couple creative print ads that run consecutively to show the breadth of Bic’s product line…
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| Saturday, May 18th, 2013 | ||
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| Sunday, May 19th, 2013 | ||
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5:06PM
talk_politics [ mahnmut ] Link |
Welfare Programs Not Faring Well Hello again, fellow political junkies! It's time for our new installment of ridiculously over-simplified hypothetical situations that you, being the benevolent ruler of your fictional state as per the NationStates model, would have to collide with. You know, your extremist decisions are somehow supposed to shape up your country in the way you deem most suitable. The last time when we had one of these polls, the overwhelming majority of the participants decided that Mr Chicago, the political talk show host had the best of all ideas, arguing in favor of jailing every politician who dared cross the line of the law. But now the issue is a bit different, and much in line with the monthly topic. Namely: The Issue A recent lull in legislation has sparked the fires of some bored politicians. After reviewing the back-log of constituent complaints, they've come to your desk demanding welfare reform. ( The debate & a pollCollapse ) | |
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8:00AM
fail_dogs Link |
Koala Kisses http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/faildogsc http://cheezburger.com/7245338368 Squee! Spotter: Unknown (via Metro) | |
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10:11AM
darthsanddroids Link |
Episode 885: The Pilot Episode http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0
Give everyone a role in the big end-of-adventure battle. Especially if they're not combat-oriented characters. This goes in the other direction too. Give the combat monsters something to do in the kindergarten class supervision scenes. And yes, Wedge is played by a different actor here (Denis Lawson) than in his earlier scene (Colin Higgins). The story is that Higgins didn't learn his lines and fumbled through the scene in the briefing room, resulting in him being fired and Lawson being given the part for the remainder of the film as well as the two sequels. And they simply didn't bother refilming the briefing scene with Lawson. | |
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8:59AM
james_nicoll Link |
2012 Nebula Award Winners f/m Total Female Male F/T 9 2.83 6.17 .31 And looking back at my past f/m for the Nebulas I think I did each category by itself so I have no idea how that compares to their historical norm. I'm going to have to go back and do an f/m for the winners, aren't I? Huh. If SFWA tracks the previous winners back past 2000, it's not in a place I can immediately see OK, here we go. ( Read more...Collapse ) Also posted at Dreamwidth, where there are | |
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8:56AM
james_nicoll Link |
2012 Nebula Award Winners Announced
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2:35PM
bart_calendar Link |
The One Percent Damn, I just pulled up the biography of the woman who plays Ygritte for Check this out: "Born in Aberdeen,[1] and grew up in Lickleyhead Castle, the family's 15th century ancestral seat.[2] Her father is the Aberdeenshire Chieftain of Clan Leslie, Sebastian Arbuthnot-Leslie, and her mother is Candida ("Candy") Leslie (née Candida Mary Sibyl Weld). Leslie is the third of five children.[2] Her parents own the 12th century Warthill Castle in Rayne, Aberdeenshire, as well.[3][4][5] Her great-great grandfather was Guillermo de Landa y Escandón, Mayor of Mexico City.[6]" | |
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4:59AM
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10:12AM
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7:46AM
anton_p_nym Link |
Lede: Local Fishwrap Shows Mercy On this absurdly early holiday weekend morning *yawn* I took the opportunity to read the Opinion section of the newspaper and stumbled upon an absolutely dire op-ed piece by Sun QMI's Monte Solberg, on how modern city living has robbed us of our connection to nature and youth today et tedious cetera. Yup, it was so dire that the London Free Press tried to spare the poor dementia case a few shreds of dignity:
-- Steve thinks this piece is of a piece with op-eds that date back a couple thousand years; uber-fans of the bucolic were with us before Jericho had walls. Current Mood:  tired | |
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4:42AM
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12:00PM
andrewducker Link |
Interesting Links for 19-05-2013 Original post on Dreamwidth - there are | |
| Saturday, May 18th, 2013 | ||
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11:49PM
jeph_tumblr Link |
New Deathmøle Track! http://jephjacques.com/post/50784915421 Holy god this one took a long time to mix for some reason. | |
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11:49PM
jeph_tumblr Link |
QA Butt http://jephjacques.com/post/50784860670
I don’t really know how much of the electronic music I listen to could be described as “minimal,” but my last.fm page (http://www.last.fm/user/jephjacques) has a list of what I’ve been listening to lately.
I like them all, to be honest. If a guitar is well built there isn’t one that’s objectively better than any of the others. Right now my main guitars are all either bolt-ons or neck-throughs, but that’s mainly because you don’t see very many set-neck extended range instruments these days and I hardly play regular 6-strings anymore.
It used to be a lot harder for me, but over time I’ve gotten used to it. I’ll either bring non-alcoholic drinks of my own to parties or ask if the host wouldn’t mind me making some coffee, and I don’t feel like I’m missing out on anything. If we’re out at a restaurant, same thing applies.
According to one of my analytics programs it’s slightly more dudebros than ladyfolk, but I have a hunch that in reality it’s the other way around.
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1) yes 2) sure, why not
For whatever reason I have lost interest in “blogging” over the years. I’d rather just let the comics speak for themselves, most of the time. But just for you, here’s a blog about what I’m doing right this second: I’m working on a mix of the next Deathmøle song, and drinking some coffee, and answering some Tumblr questions. The dogs are asleep in the house. My wife is out seeing some friends. Later I might make some food, and play some video games. I am currently wearing a hat.
That bit was written literally years ago, I think I had a whopping 3gb of RAM back then. These days I’m rocking 10gb which is plenty for my needs.
I don’t use a capture card, actually I don’t even know what that is! My setup is just a combination of CamTwist, Flash Media Encoder, and Soundflower and ReWire for audio.
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| Sunday, May 19th, 2013 | ||
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10:21AM
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12:00AM
cyanideandhappy Link |
05.19.2013 New Cyanide and Happiness Comic. | |
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7:57AM
bloomcounty_fd Link |
Sunday, May 19, 2013 Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for May 19, 2013 | |
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| Saturday, May 18th, 2013 | ||
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9:49PM
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11:46PM
fengi Link |
HTML Giant is just sad Because it's an experimental lit site, there's a chance this spat on HTML Giant is satire. If so, it's well played deconstruction of hilariously ill thought lit major bullshit. If not [muntz]ha ha![/muntz]. Seth Oelbaum writes strained, provocative posts mixing Rimbaud worship and freshman year radical blather like assuming Maya Angelou was all about "allowing everyone to take part in the white race system of consumption, copulation, and contentment" until he read her work and now he wants to dress her in kicky outfits. It's unclear if anything is sincere, but it's always trolling. Recently he posted a pedestrian observation decrying the coverage of the Boston bombing over events with far higher death counts, then escalated with "If you want the white race to give you tons of attention for being mass killed then you have to be Jewish." attributed to Baby Hitler to make it ironic. Mike Meginnis responded with a post meant call out Seth, but, as can happen with trolls, in taking the bait he traps himself: (We who are white Americans may genuinely only care about the deaths of white people, though I don’t think this is the result of racism so much as a more practical concern: we’re so relieved it wasn’t us, and that it won’t be us, that we forget to empathize. I don’t offer this as a defense, but in an attempt to more precisely define the problem the Oelbaum persona is so clumsily addressing.)Being relieved when people with a skin color other than mine are killed isn't racist, it's being practical and perhaps forgetful towards others. Yes, it's annoying to read a reactionary attention whore whose ironic anti-semitism is kidding on the square and sub-par Vice Zine bullshit. But this doesn't require defending white people. Fuck. | |
| Sunday, May 19th, 2013 | ||
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12:22AM
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12:10AM
james_nicoll Link |
More trouble in paradise Groucho does not want to share the catnip sachet, even if Fig just chews on the other side. Also posted at Dreamwidth, where there are | |
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12:09AM
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11:42PM
james_nicoll Link |
Watch the Nebulas Live! Watch the Nebulas Live! Also posted at Dreamwidth, where there are | |
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11:20PM
james_nicoll Link |
CBS Radio Workshop: Colloquy #1- Interview with William Shakespeare Colloquy #1- Interview with William Shakespeare Doctor Frank C. Baxter interviews the shade of late William Shakespeare, in particular about the knotty problem of who actually wrote the plays attributed to Shakespeare. They are joined by Kit Martlowe, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (both of whom claim authorship), Francis Bacon (who does not) and Richard Burbage (there to make the case for the importance of the actor in plays). The discussion gets rather heated. I was a bit surprised to hear "pederast" tossed around as an insult at one point. I will admit I found parts of this funny, not least because I once got to watch a Shakespearian expert deal with an ... energetic and determined fan of one of the alternate authors of Shakespeare's plays. Also posted at Dreamwidth, where there are | |
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11:20PM
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Syria can recognize an important target The Onion! The Onion was a wee smidge snippy about it. Links thanks to Geek Press. This entry was posted at http://nancylebov.dreamwidth.org/100861 | |
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10:09PM
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The winners are in bold. Also noted: The Norton and Bradbury awards, as well as the Solstice and the Kevin J. O’Donnell Service to SFWA Award.
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