sandramcdonald (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} sandramcdonald) wrote,@ 2008-04-28 07:34:00 |
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Where's the hyperdrive?
Congrats to all the Nebula winners! In retrospect, I'm glad I didn't make the final ballot and haul myself and Thad to Texas. There I would have sat, all dolled up and wearing uncomfortable shoes, stabbing my martini olive with a toothpick and thinking, "Chabon! Sure he's brilliant and charming and a literary tour de force, but where are the aliens? Where's the hyperdrive?"
From the mailbag, Hg wrote a nice note about my gay superhero story in Lone Star Storiesright now, and Sara J. let me know she'd reviewed THE OUTBACK STARS right here at Jumpdrives and Cantrips. Thank you both for your nice notes.
Went to the annual library bash this weekend. As with last year, they put in a big show with lots of writers. Unfortunately, most of them were non-fiction, self-help or self-published. Fiction lovers had Steve Berry, Carl Hiaasen, Tim Dorsey and (for the kids) R.L. Stine, but no sf/f writers at all. Last year's festival had dozens of fiction writers, so I was disappointed.
In other news, Happy Birthday, Harper Lee!
And here's a lovely story by Theodora Goss called The Rapid Advance of Sorrow, as recommended bynihilistic_kid in his discussion last week of fantatwee (well worth reading).
Congrats to all the Nebula winners! In retrospect, I'm glad I didn't make the final ballot and haul myself and Thad to Texas. There I would have sat, all dolled up and wearing uncomfortable shoes, stabbing my martini olive with a toothpick and thinking, "Chabon! Sure he's brilliant and charming and a literary tour de force, but where are the aliens? Where's the hyperdrive?"
From the mailbag, Hg wrote a nice note about my gay superhero story in Lone Star Storiesright now, and Sara J. let me know she'd reviewed THE OUTBACK STARS right here at Jumpdrives and Cantrips. Thank you both for your nice notes.
Went to the annual library bash this weekend. As with last year, they put in a big show with lots of writers. Unfortunately, most of them were non-fiction, self-help or self-published. Fiction lovers had Steve Berry, Carl Hiaasen, Tim Dorsey and (for the kids) R.L. Stine, but no sf/f writers at all. Last year's festival had dozens of fiction writers, so I was disappointed.
In other news, Happy Birthday, Harper Lee!
And here's a lovely story by Theodora Goss called The Rapid Advance of Sorrow, as recommended by
nihilistic_kid in his discussion last week of fantatwee (well worth reading).
