For the record, I do not regret my choice

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For the record, I do not regret my choice

[Poll #1816581]

Dorchester Publishing No Longer SFWA Market

The Science Fiction Writers of America announced to members yesterday that Dorchester Publishing, after failing to fulfill their contractual obligations to SFWA members, has been removed from the list of qualifying SFWA markets.

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In related news, Dorchester’s sole remaining editorial staff, Chris Keeslar, is no longer employed with the company as of January 31, 2012.

Program whoring

I managed to get a writer's credit on the basis of a single word contributed to the script....

The Locus 2011 Recommended Reading List

This recommended reading list, published in Locus Magazine’s February 2012 issue, is a consensus by Locus editors and reviewers — Liza Groen Trombi, Gary K. Wolfe, Jonathan Strahan, Faren C. Miller, Russell Letson, Paul Witcover, Graham Sleight, Carolyn Cushman, Adrienne Martini, Tim Pratt, and Karen Haber, and, for short fiction, Jonathan Strahan, Ellen Datlow, Gardner Dozois, David G. Hartwell, Rich Horton, Lois Tilton, and others.

And for my contribution:
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Speaking as a professional reviewer

This Imprint review of FASS 2012 is surprising short on the sort of details one might expect had the reviewer actually seen the show. Still, mostly supportive of the general idea of FASS, if not necessarily this specific show.

And from the Waterloo Chronicle

It’s a theatre company almost as old as the University of Waterloo and during the school’s storied history it gave faculty, alumni, staff and students a creative outlet in addition to a place to hang out.

FOUND!

That book I was asking about last week was Bruce T. Holmes' Anvil of the Heart

Open question

Assume a habitable world: what arrangement of stellar system, planetary system arrangement, orbital eccentricity, obliquity and/or other factors would you say would give the most amusingly varied climate?