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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-02-16, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
First of all, read this article: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/10/new-york-winter-helping-neighbors-stay-warm-wood-burning and then you’ll want to spread the word and raise support for this GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/an-emergency-firewood-program-needs-a-used-truck?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-02-16, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
The @cherylmorgan.bsky.social essay on what alternate worlds are and aren’t is excellent too!
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date: 2024-02-16, from: Locus Magazine
The Associazione World SF Italia announced the finalists for the 2024 Premio Ernesto Vegetti, an Italian SF award.
Novel
Nonfiction
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date: 2024-02-16, from: Locus Magazine
Winners for the 2023 Children’s and Young Adults Bloggers’ Literary Awards (Cybils) have been announced. Books of genre interest follow.
Young Adult Speculative Fiction
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-02-16, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
I laughed out loud at “Christ on a bike!”. Watch it before it gets taken down…
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date: 2024-02-16, from: Locus Magazine
The Audio Publishers Association (APA) has announced the finalists for the 2024 Audie Awards, “recognizing distinction in audiobooks and spoken-word entertainment.” Finalists of genre interest include:
Science Fiction
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date: 2024-02-16, from: Locus Magazine
Young Adult imprint Balzer + Bray is moving from HarperChildren’s to Macmillan Children’s, effective April 15, 2024. Founding editors Alessandra Balzer and Donna Bray will be senior vice-presidents and co-publishers at the new company.
The imprint was founded in 2009 at HarperCollins. Previously published titles, and new books currently under contract, will remain with HarperCollins, to be published under various imprints. No titles for the new incarnation have been announced …Read More
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date: 2024-02-16, from: Locus Magazine
A Feast for Flies, Leigh Harlen (Dancing Star Press 978-1-73214-186-5, $11.99. 163pp, pb) November 2023. Cover by Vitalii Ostaschenko.
Leigh Harlen has only published a collection and one novella, but I loved the latter so much that they immediately became one of my auto-buy authors. Queens of Noise is a riot of a novella, a fierce, funny story about were-punks trying to stop a corporate takeover of their favorite …Read More
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-02-16, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
And it was Jack’s birthday the day before yesterday. If he was still alive he would have been 39.
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date: 2024-02-16, from: Locus Magazine
Looking Back on 2023 by Liz Bourke
If there’s a theme that unites the books I enjoyed reading most this year, it’s power, violence, and survival. The damage that violence inflicts on those who suffer it, and those who wield it, and the ambiguities and challenges inherent in the ethical uses of power.
Of course, some of them were also just plain fun.
Three books stand out most. One is …Read More
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date: 2024-02-16, from: Final Draft blog
It’s no secret that shorter videos are where it’s at these days. According to Google Q2 2023 results, YouTube Shorts hit two billion monthly views, surpassing TikTok and Instagram Reels. Short and sweet content is here to stay. Video content now has a greater organic reach than imagery, and TikTok and YouTube users are now the homes of a passionate community of creators.
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date: 2024-02-16, from: Author’s Union blog
Computational research techniques such as text and data mining (TDM) hold tremendous opportunities for researchers across the disciplines ranging from mining scientific articles to create better systematic reviews, or curated chemical property datasets to building a corpus of films to understand how concepts of gender, race, and identity are shared over time. Unfortunately, legal uncertainty, […]
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-02-16, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
Happy birthday.
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-02-15, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
The Guardian writes…
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/feb/15/authors-excluded-from-hugo-awards-over-china-concerns
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date: 2024-02-15, from: Locus Magazine
The 2024 Glasgow Worldcon chair Esther MacCallum-Stewart has released a statement regarding the committee’s commitment to ensuring transparency in the coming Hugo Award cycle, in the aftermath of the 2023 Hugo Awards debacle.
As Chair of Glasgow 2024, A Worldcon for Our Futures, I unreservedly apologise for the damage caused to nominees, finalists, the community, and the Hugo, Lodestar, and Astounding Awards.
Kat Jones has resigned with immediate effect as
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date: 2024-02-15, from: Locus Magazine
LESLYE PENELOPE is now represented by Arley Sorg of kt literary.
MEG ELISON is now represented by Arley Sorg of kt literary.
R.L. STINE and KATHERINE HALL PAGE have been named the 2024 Mystery Writers of America Grand Masters. MICHAELA HAMILTON of Kensington Publishing will receive the Ellery Queen Award. The recipients will be honored at the annual Edgar Awards ceremony on May 1, 2024 in New York …Read More
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date: 2024-02-15, from: Locus Magazine
Him, Geoff Ryman (Angry Robot 978-1-91520-267-3, $18.99, 376pp, tp) December 2023.
The central conceit of Geoff Ryman’s Him is to imagine an alternative history where Jesus is born biologically female but identifies as male. It’s a provocative premise that seems designed to offend many people of faith. And yet, while gender identity is a crucial aspect of the novel, Him is, in fact, a respectful and somewhat authentic rendition …Read More
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-02-15, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
This. One hundred fucking percent this.
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-02-15, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
Exactly. (As an author whose books are popular in China I was astonished to discover that I was now persona non grata. It’s almost a relief to know that it was all in their minds.)
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-02-15, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
Exactly so.
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date: 2024-02-15, from: Locus Magazine
Chris M. Barkley and Jason Sanford have released The 2023 Hugo Awards: A Report on Censorship and Exclusion, an extensive look at the irregularities in the recent Hugo Awards presented in Chengdu China.
Leaked emails from Diane Lacey, a member of the Hugo Award administration team, reveal that several works and authors that should have made the ballot were ruled ineligible for political reasons. Those works include Babel by R.F. …Read More
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date: 2024-02-15, from: Locus Magazine
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Fifteen, edited by Ellen Datlow (Night Shade 978-1949102727, trade paperback, 432pp, $19.99) January 2024
“Curation” is an overworked word these days, when, on the internet, everything from a collection of Pez dispensers to an Instagram stream of dinner photos is deemed to be “curated.” And yet there’s really no better term to be applied to an assemblage of art put together by …Read More
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-02-14, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
I love that it’s in libraries!
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date: 2024-02-14, from: Locus Magazine
All the Hidden Paths, Foz Meadows (Tor 978-1-250-82930-6, $29.99, 520pp, hc) December 2023. Cover by Micaela Alcaino.
Foz Meadows’s All the Hidden Paths is a direct sequel to their A Strange and Stubborn Endurance. Velasin and Caethari have survived the plot against their diplomatic marriage, though it cost the lives of Caethari’s father and his sister Laecia. Their newlywed status and tentative happiness, however, is about to run …Read More
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date: 2024-02-14, from: Locus Magazine
Ten for 2023 by Tim Pratt
I wasn’t on any award juries in 2023, so I’m even less of a completist than usual when it comes to SF and fantasy in 2023. (When reading purely for my own enjoyment I tend to mix a lot of crime, comics, romances, and old stuff I missed the first time around with my shiny new speculative fiction.) Looking over the list of new …Read More
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-02-14, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
Hurrah for Good Omens!!
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-02-14, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
I do!
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-02-14, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
You are so welcome!
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date: 2024-02-14, from: Literature & a Latte blog
<p>In some novels, events happen according to a detailed timeline. This is often the case with mysteries and thrillers, where events may occur at specific times, and you, as author, need to keep track of what is happening and when. (Think of the TV series 24.) This is even more complex if you have multiple point of view characters and overlapping timelines; it can be difficult, when you're writing, to keep track of events.</p>In this article, I'm going to show you two ways you can create a timeline for your Scrivener project.
Create a timeline using Scrivener's Outliner
Scrivener's Outliner is a great way to get a top-level view of your project. It reproduces what you see in the Binder - the sidebar at the left of the Scrivener window - but can display much more information. By default, the Outliner displays the names of files in the Binder followed by synopses, if you have added them to the Inspector.
But the Outliner is very flexible; you can choose from about two dozen metadata elements to display in this pane, such as labels, status, created or modified date, word count, and more. In addition, you can create custom metadata which you can choose to display in the Outliner. In How to Add Custom Metadata to the Scrivener Inspector we explain how you can create any of four types of metadata: Text, Checkboxes, Lists, and Dates. If you add dates to your project files as custom metadata, you can sort the outline by date, allowing you to view a timeline.
Follow the instructions in the article linked above to create custom metadata. If your story takes place over a short period of time, you may want to have metadata that allows you to display both the date and the time; if it's a longer period, the date will be enough. When you've done this, add dates and/or times to your project files in the Inspector. Switch to the Outliner (View > Outline), then right-click on the header just above the outline and choose Date & Time in the menu.
In the example below, I'm showing a simple outline with titles, synopses, and the Date & Time column displayed. In my example, events take place in a short time period, so both the date and time display.
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<p>You can display other columns in the Outliner, choosing from the menu that displays when you right-click on the Outliner header. But if you just want to view a timeline, a simple outline like the one above will let you quickly see when events occur in your story.</p>If your scenes are not in the timeline order, you can click the Outliner header labeled Date & Time to sort by that metadata. This can be useful if part of your novel is flashbacks, and you want to be able to view them all sequentially, even if they appear scattered among other chapters in your manuscript. Click the Title and Synopsis header again to sort by that order.
Use Scrivener's Corkboard and labels to create a timeline
The Outliner timeline is simple. It allows you to view when chapters or scenes occur, but it doesn't allow you to split these elements up and see individual threads in their own timelines. It's a good way to keep track of time in a linear story, or a story with just a single point-of-view character, but if you have multiple characters, you may want to view a different type of timeline.
You can do this using labels and the Corkboard. Labels are a good way to tag items in the Binder. You can apply labels by right-clicking any item in the Binder, choosing Label, and then selecting a label. Or you can select an item in the Binder and click Labels at the bottom of the Inspector. (See this article for more on using labels.)
By default, the labels are named according to their colors, but you can change this. Either right-click a Binder item and choose Label > Edit, or choose Edit from the Label menu below the Inspector. This dialogue displays:
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<p>Double-click any label name to change it, and if you need more labels, click + at the bottom of this dialogue and type a name for the new label. To change any colors, double-click the color circle to bring up a color picker and choose a new color.</p>If you have multiple characters, each with their own timelines, you can set up labels for your POV characters. In the Label List, enter the names of these characters in different labels. Click the Arrange by Label button at the bottom of the window.
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<p>The Corkboard displays its cards in threads by label. By default, the cards display in rows, from left to right. Note that I haven't added synopses to the files in my sample project for better display in this view, but if you have synopses, they display as well, if the cards are large enough.</p>
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<p>To switch to a vertical view, click the Display in Columns button. This is useful if you want to use split view to keep an eye on the Corkboard while you're writing.</p>
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<p>You can change the size and spacing of the cards by clicking the Corkboard Options button, and if you click the Arrange by Label button again, the Corkboard stops displaying your cards by threads, and returns to the standard Corkboard view.</p>Working with timelines
With both types of timeline - Outliner and Corkboard - you can re-arrange items by dragging them, and you can view the text of any file by double-clicking the page icon to the left of any outline item, or on the top left of any index card. These timelines can help you when you're writing, allowing you, for example, to write all scenes or chapters in one timeline rather than switching back and forth. They can also help when you're editing, giving you a better view of each timeline and how they interrelate. If you've got a complex project where you need to pay attention to timelines, try out one of these methods.
<p>Kirk McElhearn is a <a href="https://kirkville.com" target="_blank">writer</a>, <a href="https://kirkville.com/podcasts/" target="_blank">podcaster</a>, and <a href="https://kirkville.com/kirks-photos-2/" target="_blank">photographer</a>. He is the author of <a href="https://www.literatureandlatte.com/store" target="_blank">Take Control of Scrivener</a>, and host of the podcast <a href="https://podcast.scrivenerapp.com" target="_blank">Write Now with Scrivener</a>.</p>
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date: 2024-02-13, from: Author’s Union blog
Join us for a VIRTUAL book talk with author Joanne McNeil about her latest book, WRONG WAY, which examines the treacherous gaps between the working and middle classes wrought by the age of AI. McNeil will be in conversation with author Sarah Jaffe. This is the first Internet Archive / Authors Alliance book talk for a work of fiction! Come […]
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date: 2024-02-13, from: Locus Magazine
» NY Times: Amal El-Mohtar reviews Kelly Link’s The Book of Love
» Washington Post: Ron Charles reviews Kelly Link’s The Book of Love
» Esquire: Adam Morgan interviews Kelly Link
» Business Insider: Inside the rise of Sarah J. Maas, the best-selling author who’s taking the “romantasy” genre to the next level
» NY Times: Gabino Iglesias reviews Emily Ruth Verona, Jenny Kiefer, Christopher Golden, and Tlotlo Tsamaase …Read More
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date: 2024-02-13, from: Locus Magazine
Results of the New England Science Fiction Association (NESFA) Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Story Contest were announced at Boskone 61, held February 9-11, 2024.
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date: 2024-02-13, from: Locus Magazine
Diabolical Plots 10-11/23 Understudies, Priya Sridhar (Hiraeth) February 2023. Samovar 10/23/23 Strange Horizons 10/30/23, 11/6/23
Over at Diabolical Plots, the publishing schedule has been temporarily compacted, leading to an October and November with only one story each instead of the regular two. Both stories are quite good, though, and both stay in the Halloween spirit with witches and ghosts aplenty. Both also twist expectations regarding these classic elements, as …Read More
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date: 2024-02-13, from: Locus Magazine
Arden, Katherine: The Warm Hands of Ghosts (Penguin Random House/Del Rey 9780593128251, $28.99, 336pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 02/13/2024)
Historical fantasy novel. During WWI, Laura Iven, a retired field nurse hears word that her brother has been killed in combat, but something doesn’t make sense. She returns to Belgium as a volunteer at a private hospital, where she hears whispers about haunted trenches and a strange hotelier whose wine gives …Read More
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date: 2024-02-13, from: Final Draft blog
“You want to write stuff you want to see, that’s the key. Just write
something new something fresh, something interesting,” says director and
co-writer William Eubank of Land of Bad, the new intense, action-packed
movie about a Delta Force team that gets ambushed in enemy
territory.
Final Draft sat down with Eubank to talk about his
writing process, directing Liam Hemsworth, Russell Crowe and Luke
Hemsworth in this unhinged survival story full of exciting set pieces
and big action moments.
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date: 2024-02-13, from: Locus Magazine
John Scalzi is the recipient of the 2023 Edward E. Smith Memorial Award for Imaginative Fiction (AKA the Skylark Award), and Ellen Kushner & Delia Sherman are the winners of the 2024 award. The awards were presented by the New England Science Fiction Association (NESFA) at Boskone 61, held February 9-11, 2024 in Boston.
The Skylark is given to “some person, who, in the opinion of the membership, has contributed …Read More
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date: 2024-02-12, from: Locus Magazine
The Baltimore Science Fiction Society (BSFS) has announced the finalists for the 2024 Compton Crook Award:
Splinter in the Sky, Kemi Ashing-Giwa (Saga)
To Shape a Dragon’s Breath, Moniquill Blackgoose (Del Rey)
These Burning Stars, Bethany Jacobs (Orbit)
Deathwind, Brad Pawlowski (Sunquake)
The award honors the best first SF/fantasy/horror novel of the year, and “includes a framed …Read More
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date: 2024-02-12, from: Final Draft blog
For decades, the typewriter was the tool most screenwriters would use to write their scripts.
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date: 2024-02-12, from: Locus Magazine
As anticipated, Sarah J. Maas’s House of Flame and Shadow (Bloomsbury), third in the Crescent City series, debuts strongly — ranking at #1 — on all four print lists compiled here.
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT 02.11 LAT 02.11 USAT 02.04 PW 02.12 Amz (02.12) UK: Amz UK (02.12) Canada: Amz.ca (02.12)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed
10×3 10×2 150 15×3 100 100 100 …Read More
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date: 2024-02-12, from: Locus Magazine
The Glass Box, J. Michael Straczynski (Blackstone 979-8212007795, hardcover, 350pp, $25.99) January 2024
We are lucky that Mr. Straczynski—hereafter, the familiar JMS—has taken some time off from his comics and television work to gift us with a fine new novel. Considering also his heavy duties administering the estate of Harlan Ellison—I for one eagerly await the reprinting of Dangerous Visions and Again, Dangerous Visions, and the birth of …Read More
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date: 2024-02-12, from: Locus Magazine
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has announced the late James Hosek (October 13, 1964 – December 3, 2023) as the winner of the 2024 Kevin O’Donnell, Jr. Service to SFWA Award. The award is presented to “a volunteer of SFWA who best exemplifies the ideal of service to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.”
Deputy Executive Director Terra LeMay says,
It is often the case …Read More
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date: 2024-02-12, from: Locus Magazine
Montréal, Québec, Canada has announced a bid to host the 85th World Science Fiction Convention, to be held in 2027.
The 67th Worldcon in 2009 in Montréal was the last Canadian Worldcon and Montrealers will be happy to see it return. We are bidding to bring the convention to the Palais des Congrès from September 2-6, 2027.
The bid is led by Terry Fong, a Montréal native and a veteran …Read More
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date: 2024-02-12, from: Locus Magazine
2023 by Alex Brown
In an unintentional yet perfect synchronicity of events, I’m writing this 2023 speculative fiction wrap-up on the last day of the year with a glass of Martinelli’s while waiting for the ball to drop. It was a strange, contradictory year, one with several professional wins and several more personal hardships. Going through my reading log, I got through more books this year than I thought I …Read More
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-02-12, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
If anyone from the last Worldcon, especially anyone involved in the sad mess that was the Hugos, wants to know what an actual apology looks like, here’s a proper one from a few years ago. You could do worse than take it as a model.
https://locusmag.com/2021/12/discon-iii-sponsorship-apology/
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-02-12, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
Books ninja signed. JFK terminal 4
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-02-11, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
Also, the opposite of Funny isn’t Serious. The opposite of Funny is Not Funny. You can always be funny and serious.
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date: 2024-02-11, from: IF Database News
Voting ends for the IFDB Awards at roughly midnight EST on February 17th. Make sure you get your votes in early!
The rules for the competition can be found here, and a list of all categories can be found here.
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-02-11, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
A reminder that Laika is selling limited edition CORALINE stuff in their online shop. (And when it’s gone, it’s gone.) https://shop.laika.com/search?q=Coraline
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date: 2024-02-11, from: Locus Magazine
Chengdu Worldcon, the 81st World Science Fiction Convention, received 1,674 valid ballots, down from 2,235 at Chicon 8. There were 1,847 valid nominating ballots (1,843 electronic, four paper), up from 1,368.
Nomination statistics weren’t released until the very last of the 90 days allowed, just before our deadline. They don’t include author names for nominees, and generally don’t offer explanations for why several items were dropped as “not eligible.” To …Read More
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This is remarkably cool.
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In an astonishingly satisfactory ending to this thread, I googled “I’ll be your mirror: the collected lyrics” discovered I had bought it in Feb 2020 and it was put away safely for me until I got home to the US, 27 months later, so safely that I hadn’t realised I owned it until now.
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date: 2024-02-11, from: Locus Magazine
Glasgow 2024, A Worldcon for our Futures, to be held August 8th-12th, 2024 in Glasgow, Scotland, published Media Release #10 on December 28, 2023, announcing editor and game developer Tanya DePass as a Special Guest. For more, see their website.
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date: 2024-02-11, from: Locus Magazine
Chaos Terminal, Mur Lafferty (Ace 978-0-59309-813-4, 369pp, $17.00, tp) Cover by Will Staehle. November 2023.
I have watched a lot of episodes of the British TV show Midsomer Murders. They follow a predictable format: There’s the murder (or three) and the investigation, and the final triumphant reveal of whodunit. In the course of the investigation far more problems than just the murder will turn up, some of which are …Read More
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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2024-02-11, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)
Thank you!
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