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coalescentI just walk-and-talk-briefed someone else in the company. I feel so very West Wing.
Hugo results and discussion can be found here, courtesy![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
flyingsauce. It seems to me a fairly pedestrian group of winners, for the most part--in particular, nobody will ever convince me that 'Legions in Time' is even in the same league as 'The Empire of Ice Cream.' But I suppose, with one or two exceptions, the shortlists weren't that hot to start with.
And here's something to think about come Hugo nominations time for next year: Light is eligible.
Fandoms grow fast these days. Not only has the Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell fanfic started, before the book is even published, but it's started out by crossing over with Pirates of the Caribbean.
Shock winner of the top screen scientist poll: Beaker and
Bunsen beat Emmett Brown, Spock, Doctor Who and others.
Here's an article about how libraries and librarians can help out genre readers. It's interesting to see it all laid out in such neutral terms: the difference between a reader and a fan, the definition of 'sf', etc.
Civil unrest in Star Wars Galaxies. I remember a story about the mafia developing in the online Sims a while back. All very interesting ...
Oh, and after all the debate, my long review of The Snow is up at The Alien Online.
Most recently read: Whilst the fact that westbound trains out of Paddington kept getting cancelled last night meant that I got home at a ridiculously late hour, it also meant that I finished off the last of the Best Short Novels. Terry Bisson's 'Greetings' deals with the possible implications of an aging population. Demographic change is a subject I'm interested in; I think there are probably great stories to be written about it. 'Greetings' isn't great--it doesn't do anything particularly special with its central idea, voluntary suicide--but it is very good. It's moving at the right times, without being mawkish, and though it has a somewhat bleak outlook, it also has a thoughtful treatment of the ethical issues involved.
And finally ... Matthew Cheney has an interview with Paolo Bacigalupi, author of 'The Fluted Girl', 'The People of Sand and Slag' and (in the latest issue of Asimov's, that I forgot to reclaim fromsnowking on Saturday), 'The Pasho'.
Hugo results and discussion can be found here, courtesy
flyingsauce. It seems to me a fairly pedestrian group of winners, for the most part--in particular, nobody will ever convince me that 'Legions in Time' is even in the same league as 'The Empire of Ice Cream.' But I suppose, with one or two exceptions, the shortlists weren't that hot to start with.And here's something to think about come Hugo nominations time for next year: Light is eligible.
Fandoms grow fast these days. Not only has the Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell fanfic started, before the book is even published, but it's started out by crossing over with Pirates of the Caribbean.
Shock winner of the top screen scientist poll: Beaker and
Bunsen beat Emmett Brown, Spock, Doctor Who and others.
Here's an article about how libraries and librarians can help out genre readers. It's interesting to see it all laid out in such neutral terms: the difference between a reader and a fan, the definition of 'sf', etc.
Civil unrest in Star Wars Galaxies. I remember a story about the mafia developing in the online Sims a while back. All very interesting ...
Oh, and after all the debate, my long review of The Snow is up at The Alien Online.
Most recently read: Whilst the fact that westbound trains out of Paddington kept getting cancelled last night meant that I got home at a ridiculously late hour, it also meant that I finished off the last of the Best Short Novels. Terry Bisson's 'Greetings' deals with the possible implications of an aging population. Demographic change is a subject I'm interested in; I think there are probably great stories to be written about it. 'Greetings' isn't great--it doesn't do anything particularly special with its central idea, voluntary suicide--but it is very good. It's moving at the right times, without being mawkish, and though it has a somewhat bleak outlook, it also has a thoughtful treatment of the ethical issues involved.
And finally ... Matthew Cheney has an interview with Paolo Bacigalupi, author of 'The Fluted Girl', 'The People of Sand and Slag' and (in the latest issue of Asimov's, that I forgot to reclaim from
snowking on Saturday), 'The Pasho'.
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Date: 2004-09-06 03:44 am (UTC)You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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Date: 2004-09-06 04:29 am (UTC)What am I missing here?
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Date: 2004-09-06 05:44 am (UTC)Plus Dr Honeydew is a way better scientist.
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Date: 2004-09-06 06:49 am (UTC)Sure, because the ballot-boxes of online polls are never stuffed by fannish groups. :-p
Plus Dr Honeydew is a way better scientist.
FSVO 'better', anyway ...
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Date: 2004-09-06 07:16 am (UTC)Yes, but they clearly failed here. Hooray!
FSVO 'better', anyway ...
Number of times Spock managed to turn gold into cottage cheese? ZERO. And Beaker has a better singing voice than the Doctor.
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Date: 2004-09-06 07:27 am (UTC)Indeed. But hence (to drag this back to where it started) my surprise. You see? :-p
Number of times Spock managed to turn gold into cottage cheese? ZERO. And Beaker has a better singing voice than the Doctor.
Hmm. You make a good case.
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Date: 2004-09-06 03:54 am (UTC)For certain definitions of 'eligible', sure.
*whistles innocently*
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Date: 2004-09-06 05:17 am (UTC)Dammit. :-p
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Date: 2004-09-06 06:23 am (UTC)regardless, reading the comments always make me get sort of sappy in a i'mgladtoknowyou sort of way.
that make any sense? :)
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Date: 2004-09-06 06:52 am (UTC)P.S. milk chocolate buttons are clearly superior!
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Date: 2004-09-06 12:49 pm (UTC)Oh, is that what it's meant to taste like?
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