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The Seattle Books
Final picks, not quite in line with the poll:
Cold Magic by Kate Elliott
Independent People by Haldor Laxness
The Islanders by Christopher Priest
The Godless Boys by Naomi Wood
I might even try to blog about them, he said optimistically.
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BSFA awards still open!
(Next month I will post about something unrelated to the BSFA awards, I swear. Maybe even later this month.)
So for reasons that aren't entirely clear to me, the BSFA awards have extended their nomination period until tomorrow (Thursday) at 22.00 GMT. And they have added an online nomination form, so BSFA members can go here to submit nominations ( Read more... ) -
BSFA awards correction
So it seems I jumped the gun on the eligibility front this morning: the BSFA have posted a clarification about ebook eligibility:
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BSFA award nominations reminder
Attention BSFA members! Don't forget that your award nominations are due by the end of this week (by "midnight on Friday", to be precise). There's a list of what has been nominated so far here; the five works in each category with the most nominations will go forward to the final ballot. Send your nominations to awards@bsfa.co.ukIf you are a BSFA ( Read more... ) -
Infidel
Remember God's War? This week I read and was pleased by the sequel (and some related short stories).
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In-Flight Reading
I promised Martin I'd post a poll when the Strange Horizons fund drive finished, and since it now has (successfully, hooray!), here we go. I'm off on my business travels again this week, first to Belgrade, then to Brussels; and I'm on a reading-new-stuff kick. What should I take with me? I'll have two four-hour flights plus a Eurostar journey to ( Read more... ) -
Fund drive update
Further to my earlier post -- a huge thank-you to everyone who's posted today, or said they will post this week! We've had a good day, fund drive-wise; I've been rounding up posts at the SH blog as promised, in four batches so far: one, two, three, four. Or if you want specific posts, some of my favourites are by Matt Denault, Sarah Kanning, and ( Read more... ) -
Strange Horizons Fund Drive
This year has been whistling past at a frightening rate, and a large part of why is Strange Horizons: and now I can't quite believe it's fund drive time again, but it is. SH, as most of you reading this will remember, is staffed entirely by unpaid volunteers, and primarily funded by reader donations, which means that every year, at about this time ( Read more... ) -
God's War
Round one. This is how it starts: "Nyx sold her womb somewhere between Punjai and Faleen, on the edge of the desert": and then we're in the book. I think those fifteen words are a great first sentence primarily for their economy, for the terseness which is successfully challenging for at least one reader, and yet which manages to begin to sketch a ( Read more... )
