Second paragraph of third story ("The Island", by Peter Watts): Is it really too much to ask, that you might talk to us now and then?
Thirty stories here; I had read three of them before, two of which I ranked bottom of their category in the 2010 Hugos but the third, Lucius Shepard's "Sylgarmo's Proclamation", I rather enjoyed. Most of them I ( Read more... )

This year's Hugo shortlist for the Best Short Story category is rather easy to digest - there are only four nominees (presumably there was a multiple tie for fifth place among the nominations), all of them are already available online, and one of them is very short indeed; to further simplify matters I had already read one which had been nominated ( Read more... )

Here are my votes for the Best Novelette category, in reverse order ( Read more... )

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  Making Light: Peter Watts, distinguished Canadian SF writer, arrested by US border police while trying to re-enter Canada
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  Dr Peter Watts, Canadian science fiction writer, beaten and arrested at US border Boing Boing
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  Helping Out Peter Watts - Whatever ( Read more... )