The Winners and Recommended Short List for the 2009 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards will be announced at Gaylaxicon 2009 in October 2009 in Minneapolis. (Which I will be attending!)

Here's the full awesome list of novel nominations (buddies and/or books I read are in bold):

Adijan and Her Genie by L-J Baker (Bedazzled Ink)
All The Windwracked Stars by ( Read more... )

LIGHTBREAKER by Mark Teppo, found in the wilds of DreamHaven Books, Minneapolis.

NORSE CODE by Greg van Eekhout, captured at Uncle Hugo's, Minneapolis.

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Sunday, May 24
Room of One's Own
307 W. Johnson St.
Madison, WI


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"The future world painted by Anderson is a believable extension on the current state of affairs between the U.S. and Mexico: the shared border disintegrates into anarchy; governments turn tyrannically corrupt; cultural and racial tensions escalate to a fevered pitch."  --Bahia de Banderas News (Puerta Vallarta)

Doug Lain is a fun interviewer and I thoroughly enjoyed talking to him on his podcast for Diet Soap. Check it out. We talk about swine flu, tarot, and I rip the veil off Doug Lain's canard about his having "children."

Meanwhile, in H1N1 news, a new study suggests that Mexicans of mixed ancestry (roughly 80% of population) may have genetic ( Read more... )

Husband of US flu victim considers wrongful death suit against Giant Pig Farm (TM).

The suit could spur a more aggressive epidemiological investigation. It also presupposes a source for the H1N1 outbreak, which is not helpful for such an investigation. An intriguing development, nonetheless.

From Slate

There Are Four Lights!
Revisiting Star Trek: The Next Generation's eerily prescient torture episode

I'm not sure how eerily prescient that episode was. Some issues surrounding torture are described effectively, I suppose, and those issues are now swirling around a far more complicated and disturbing situation, namely, that the "good guys" ( Read more... )

Why won't Doug Lain call me??