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Sidewise Award Finalist

Our very own Eleanor Arnason is a finalist for a Sidewise Award for Alternate History for her short story "Mammoths of the Great Plains."

Other finalists in the short form are:

Barry B. Longyear, "Alter Kameraden," Asimov's, 4/10
Ken MacLeod, Sidewinders, The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories, edited by Ian Watson and Ian Whates, Robinson Publishing/Running Press
Alan Smale, "A Clash of Eagles," Panverse Two, edited by Dario Ciriello, Panverse Publishing
William F. Wu, "Goin' Down to Anglotown," The Dragon and the Stars, edited by Derwin Mak and Eric Choi, DAW Books

"Mammoths of the Great Plains" is also a finalist for the 2011 Theodore Sturgeon Award. Others in Eleanor's catagory are:

"Under the Moons of Venus" by Damien Broderick (originally published in Subterranean Magazine, Spring)
"The Maiden Flight of McAuley's Bellerophon" by Elizabeth Hand (Stories: All-New Tales)
"The Sultan of the Clouds" by Geoffrey A. Landis (Asimov's Science Fiction, September)
"Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain" by Yoon Ha Lee (Lightspeed, September)
"Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance" by Paul Park (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January/February)
"Dead Man's Run" by Robert Reed (F&SF, November/December)
"Troika" by Alastair Reynolds (Godlike Machines)
"A Letter from the Emperor" by Steve Rasnic Tem (Asimov's, January)
"The Night Train" by Lavie Tidhar (Strange Horizons, 14 June)
"The Things" by Peter Watts (Clarkesworld, January)

CONGRATS to Eleanor!!

Sea Monkey Diary: Day 5

The moment of truth: adding the sea monkey eggs and the "secret catalyst" (alternately described in the literature as the "magic powder") to the purified water. Skeptics might consider Clarke's Third Law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

The curiosity of the local megafauna has been aroused.

Running Writer

Best of luck to our own Sean Murphy, who is running in Grandma's Marathon in Duluth, MN! He's been training hard for this, and I know we are all rooting for him. Go, Sean (or the chicken will get you)!

Friday Cat Blogging Pre Hot Tub Edition

I want fisshies!



I want Meg to leave!



I made Meg leave!



Did not. I wanted to leave. Hey, is that my tail?



Toeses! You may kiss them if you wish, peasant.

Sea Monkey Diary: Day 4

Step 1: water purificati​on and temperature optimization.

The Magic Castle situated in its new habitat, with sophisticated temperatur​e-monitori​ng device.

Sea Monkeys: Day 4

Step 1: water purificati​on and temperature optimization. The Magic Castle situated in its new habitat, with sophisticated temperatur​e-monitori​ng device.

Race in Marvel Comics

Racalicious has an interesting article about race and Marvel Comics. Actually, the article is more specifically a discussion of the cast of the new Avengers movie and how that reflects race reality. As is briefly pointed out, Brian Michael Bendis has made Luke Cage/Power Man a main character of the New Avengers, but I can most certainly agree that the Avengers have had much more of a diversity problem than, say, the X-Men.

Unicorns (Kinda)!

Newser Science wants you to know that the Arabian 'Unicorn' has made a comeback. Okay, great, but does it fart glitter???!

Sea Monkey Diary: Day 3

Summer science begins today. (Or maybe that should be "scientification.")

Sea Monkeys: Day 3

Summer science begins today. (Or maybe that should be "scientification.")