The 2012 Nebula (and adjacent) Awards were awarded last night and the winners are:

NOVEL: 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

NOVELLA: After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress (Tachyon)

NOVELLETTE: Close Encounters by Andy Duncan (The Pottawatomie Giant & Other Stories)

SHORT STORY: Immersion by Aliette de ( Read more... )

I flew back on Friday and spent a weekend trying to sleep off the jetlag while fighting the remains of the cold. My voice still breaks a little but it's almost gone. Of course the dry cough will stay for few more weeks. That's just how it works when I'm sick. No fever - excess of phlegm and coughing. So that's how my year started ( Read more... )

I'm all packed and start my journey home early tomorrow (early because after they switched my flight to Chicago 3 times I ended up with 5 hour layover there - I have to stop connecting through Chicago as things like that keep happening). This means this is probably my last post for a while - maybe even till next year ( Read more... )

This is the last one of this century - day, month and year represented by the same number. And it seems like the century just started a moment ago - now it's almost a teenager. I suppose that's what getting old feels like.

The Jim Hines fundriser for Aicardi syndrome has passed 6000$ and some of the promised poses have already been posted and it's ( Read more... )

I ate (too much). I played with cats (not mine, unfortunately) and kids (not mine, fortunately). I even talked to my family (because I was at home during late afternoon and they got my package). I even bought something today. So I think this qualifies as celebrating Thanksgiving. I'm starting to feel like I'm getting good at it ( Read more... )

I mostly avoided commenting during the pre-election period as I try to not be too involved in other country politics. I get all my facepalms and excitement at home (seriously - the whole TNT on the Smoleńsk plane thing was like really bad conspiracy theory ridiculous). I don't need anybody else's. But I live in US now and I had opportunity to watch ( Read more... )

I have to give a presentation tomorrow so I just wanted to post this nice explanation of this year's Physics Nobel

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I just finished rearranging my closet. I moved the warmer clothes to the front as autumn is truly here. It's funny how there was barely any colour change just a week ago and now it's clearly visible. Here are tow photos of the same place - one taken a week ago and the second today.


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Mondays are not good days at work (even without the whole Monday thing) and today it was also raining since with drizzle alternating with real rain. And, although, the day was pretty warm the cold nights combined with rained made it feel like a real autumn day even though leaves are barely changing colours yet. I knew it was going to be this way so ( Read more... )

European Union got the Peace Nobel Price. The Nobel Peace Prize 2012 was awarded to European Union (EU) "for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe". Unlike the others this is awarded in Oslo which makes it a little funny as Norwegians have been consistently rejecting ( Read more... )