Happy pride
I have been out of town most of this week, so the column is short today.
The Nebula Awards were announced on Friday. Here is the list of winners. Network Effect by Martha Wells took Best Novel and Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark took Best Novella.
Chris Salisbury muses on the power of night, and what we’ve lost be fearing the darkness.
This is a nice profile of S.B. Divya.
Secondhand booksellers in the UK are piloting a scheme to pay limited royalties to the writers (as you know, the write makes nothing on any sale after the first one). This is an interesting concept. I wonder how it will work out.
And here’s some Nebula music:
N.K. Jemisin’s BROKEN EARTH trilogy will be adapted as a set of movies.
Nerds of a Feather has some issues with Antediluvian by Wil McCarthy.
Publishers Weekly offers ten “guilty pleasures.” Several of these are “chick lit” but there are a few thrillers on the list.
Another article about the new Loki mini-series.
Christina Ricci is joining the cast of The Matrix 4. In other news, there will be a Matrix 4.
And, casting news on the Into the Spiderverse front.
The latest news on NASA’s planned missions to Venus.
The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus will sing us out with an Irish Blessing.
Thanks, Kat, great input!
Marion, thanks for the audiobook article! Interestingly, they list All Systems Red by Martha Wells. Here's part of my review…
And, oh...as to that 2.5-star rating: I think I gave Damon Knight's "Beyond the Barrier" a similar halfhearted rating earlier…
And speaking of mixed, that's how the book left me...mixed! As in MIXED UP!
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