2014's finalists for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science-fiction novel

The finalists are:

Author                  Title                   
Max Barry 	        Lexicon 	
Stephen Baxter 	        Proxima 	
Dave Eggers 	        The Circle 	
Karen Joy Fowler 	We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves 
Nicola Griffith 	Hild 	
Wolfgang Jeschke 	The Cusanus Game 	
Ann Leckie 	        Ancillary Justice 	
Phillip Mann 	        The Disestablishment of Paradise 	
Paul McAuley 	        Evening's Empires 	
Linda Nagata 	        The Red: First Light 	
Christopher Priest 	The Adjacent 
Alastair Reynolds 	On the Steel Breeze 	
Kim Stanley Robinson 	Shaman 
Charles Stross 	        Neptune's Brood 	 
Marcel Theroux 	        Strange Bodies 


Publisher               Number of finalists

Gollancz                   5 
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2
Orbit                      2
Ace                        1                   
Penguin                    1
Knopf                      1
Marian Wood / Putnam       1
Tor (1st English edition)  1
Mythic Island Press        1



Total   F   M   Mu   F/T
 15     4   11       0.27

In which Groucho is in a bad mood

Having discovered Ibid had quietly worked his way around the bed so he was next to Groucho, Groucho threw a tantrum aimed at chasing every other entity from the bed, including me. I'm actually pretty cool on a cat growling and hissing at me six inches away from my face so I am afraid Groucho got summarily ejected from the bed.


The stupid thing is Groucho and Ibid were curled up next to each other for about 20 minutes before Groucho suddenly flipped out. And Groucho was purring right up to the point he suddenly went nuts.

This, sadly, is not new behavior for him.