Temeraire: In the Service of the King (SFBC edition of Temeraire a.k.a. His Majesty's Dragon, Throne of Jade, and Black Powder War) by NaomiNovik won the Locus award for Best First Novel Saturday. But I heard it from Neil Gaiman's journal, not here on LJ. How has this not spread madly through my friends list?

Anyway -- yay! \0/

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I saw a fairy circle Thursday morning -- a circle of mushrooms. A *big* circle, about eight feet across. It's also growing on the edge of a church's property. Well, Friday morning, it had gotten weirder. Looking from the street, at about 8:30 on the ring, and maybe a foot and a half inside the circle, there was an empty boot. About 8:00 on the ( Read more... )

Thank you, very much! ::cheerful:: I fall in with the Gaiman school of thought that believes the honor is in being nominated, which is to say that whoever you are, I'm terribly flattered and thank you!

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