Friday, March 14th, 2008

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9:58a	Friday morning If you sign up to the new Tor cool blogoid thingy this week, you get a free e-copy of Farthing. I just got sent a link to it, which seems oddly recursive. I don't have my secret decoder ring yet, though. Also, a hilarious brief review from someone who downloaded it "Very nicely done, surprisingly enjoyable given that it's the kind of heavily political writing I usually thoroughly despise. The characters leap out and bite you." Actually, I must admit that not even the e-version is quite that interactive! We have two tickets to see Leonard Cohen. I had to stand in line for a bit more than an hour in a long line snaking through Place des Arts, and getting up early didn't help because they went on sale at noon. But actually I had an interesting conversation with the person who joined the line just after me, so the time passed quite pleasantly. (12 Comments | Comment on this)
5:40p	Ha'Penny on Lamdha Shortlist Ha'Penny is a finalist for the Lamdha Literary Awards in the SF categories. Full list of all categories at the link, the SF ones are: Wicked Gentlemen, Ginn Hale (Blind Eye Books) A Companion to Wolves, Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear (Tor Books) Spaceman Blues: A Love Song, Brian Francis Slattery (Tor Books) The Dust of Wonderland, Lee Thomas (Alyson Books) Ha'penny, Jo Walton (Tor Books) (This is clearly because it has just the right number of gay people in it.) Congratulations to all, and especially matociquala, truepenny and desayunoecama. (23 Comments | Comment on this)

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