I don't do this often, but I'm going to recommend a story as something that almost everyone I know (online, anyway) should read post haste if they haven't already: Kelly Link's "Magic For Beginners," a finalist for the Hugo and the Nebula this year. (I'm not a big follower of the awards, but I've seen the Link story mentioned so many times as the ( Read more... )

No spoilers, no spoilers, I'm going to avoid spoilers... but I have to join those readers whose reaction is pretty much '...WTF ( Read more... )