As the English are to tea, so are the Dutch to toasties. Toasties are a staple on café menus (though ham 'n' cheese is about as exciting as it gets) and most households have their own well-used toasted sandwich maker. Most, but not ours, so I decided to buy Wingnut one for his birthday. A pretty boring present, even though he's Dutch, right ( Read more... )

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This was a tough category to get through. There were two plodders, one half-half, and two good stories.

(6) Blackout by Mira Grant - Third in the Newsflesh trilogy, the other two were nominated in previous years. Book #2, Deadline, made me want to go out and poke a zombie with a stick. This book made me want to find a whole mob of zombies and poke ( Read more... )

Council members from the Party For Freedom in the Hague say they're annoyed because Polish people and other Eastern Europeans are catching all the fish in the lakes and canals and eating them. They think steps should be taken to stop this in the Hague because that trustworthy newspaper, De Telegraaf, reports "overfishing" and "poaching" by Polish ( Read more... )

Best Novella. Could be a type of coffee? But is actually a written work of fiction between 17,500 and 40,000 words long.

(6) San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats by Mira Grant - I'm not going to rant.

(5) No Award.

(4) The Stars Do Not Lie by Jay Lake - An alternate Galileo-type makes a major discovery and unwittingly pits ( Read more... )

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The Women's EURO 2013 has started and I'm sure we're all as excited as the Brits were by the end of their "77" year Wimbledon drought ( Read more... )

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