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== Hugo nominees announced == http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/105093922\/hugo_nominees_announ.html<\/a> (from Boing Boing) Cory Doctorow: This year's Hugo nominees are out — congrats to all the great nominees! It's amazing to see great books like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Glasshouse,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Rainbows End,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Blindsight\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on the ballot, along with stories like Ian McDonald's \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Djinn's Wife,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Bill Shunn's \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Inclination,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Geoff Ryman's \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ben Rosenbaum's \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The House Beyond Your Sky\u00e2\u20ac\u009d not to mention Neil Gaiman's \u00e2\u20ac\u0153How to Talk to Girls at Parties,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Tim Pratt's \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Impossible Dreams\u00e2\u20ac\u009d — and the list goes on! An art book by Picacio, a bio of Alice Sheldon, a memoir by Chip Delany; badass movies like Children of Men and V for Vendetta, and a really top-flight list of Campbell nominees! Christ, it's going to be hard to pick favorites this year. Novel Michael F. Flynn, Eifelheim (Tor) Naomi Novik, His Majesty\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Dragon (Del Rey) Charles Stross, Glasshouse (Ace) Vernor Vinge, Rainbows End (Tor) Peter Watts, Blindsight (Tor) Novella \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Walls of the Universe\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Paul Melko (Asimov\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, April\/May 2006) \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A Billion Eyes\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Robert Reed (Asimov\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, October\/November 2006) \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Inclination\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by William Shunn (Asimov\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, April\/May 2006) \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lord Weary\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Empire\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Michael Swanwick (Asimov\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, December 2006) Julian: A Christmas Story by Robert Charles Wilson (PS Publishing) Novelette \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yellow Card Man\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Paolo Bacigalupi (Asimov\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, December 2006) \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Dawn, and Sunset, and the Colours of the Earth\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Michael F. Flynn (Asimov\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, December 2006) \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Djinn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Wife\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Ian McDonald (Analog, July 2006) \u00e2\u20ac\u0153All the Things You Are\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Mike Resnick (Jim Baen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Universe, October 2006) \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Pol Pot\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Beautiful Daughter\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Geoff Ryman (F&SF, October\/November 2006) Short Story \u00e2\u20ac\u0153How to Talk to Girls at Parties\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Neil Gaiman (Fragile Things) \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Kin\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Bruce McAllister (Asimov\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, February 2006) \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Impossible Dreams\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Timothy Pratt (Asimov\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, July 2006) \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Eight Episodes\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Robert Reed (Asimov\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, June 2006) \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The House Beyond Your Sky\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Benjamin Rosenbaum (Strange Horizons, September 2006) Related Book Samuel R. Delany, About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, and Five Interviews (Wesleyan University Press) Joseph T. Major, Heinlein\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Children: The Juveniles (Advent) Julie Phillips, James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice Sheldon (St. Martin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Press) John Picacio, Cover Story: The Art of John Picacio (MonkeyBrain Books) Mike Resnick & Joe Siclari, eds., Worldcon Guest of Honor Speeches (ISFiC Press) <\/p>\n

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== Hugo nominees announced == http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/105093922\/hugo_nominees_announ.html (from Boing Boing) Cory Doctorow: This year's Hugo nominees are out — congrats to all the great nominees! It's amazing to see great books like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Glasshouse,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Rainbows End,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Blindsight\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on the ballot, along … Continue reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-postgresql"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5435,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/5435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}