Daily Archives: April 24, 2006
OMW: Locus Award Finalist
Posted on April 24, 2006 10 Comments
I just found out that Old Man’s War is a finalist with the 2006 Locus Awards, in the category of Best First Novel. Other nominees in this category: Counting Heads, David Marusek Hammered/Scardown/Worldwired, Elizabeth Bear The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl, Tim Pratt Vellum, Hal Duncan Vellum, incidentally, officially debuts here in the US tomorrow — […]
Two Quick Self-Serving Links
Posted on April 24, 2006 3 Comments
One, just in case people are wondering if there are a lot fanficcers out there or not, I’ll note that according to BlogPulse, the Lori Jareo post from Friday is the #2 Top Blog Post on teh Intarweebs today. Neat. Two, a nice review of The Ghost Brigades in the Some Fantastic critzine, which you […]
Tea Parties in Science Fiction
Posted on April 24, 2006 13 Comments
The estimable Tobias Buckell, who attended and recorded the “Tea Parties in Science Fiction” panel I mentioned here, has now posted the podcast here, and offers his own commentary here. The recording is in .wav form and is about 12MB and 50 minutes long. Be aware there’s some background noise, thanks to passing traffic. (For […]
Copyright Squares
Posted on April 24, 2006 19 Comments
This fellow writes up a note about the Lori Jareo thing, and rather interestingly thinks the reason fanficcers are so outraged by what Ms. Jareo did is because they’re clueless slaves to the existing copyright paradigm. That should get a chuckle or two out of the fanficcers I know. I posted a rather lengthly response […]
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