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Nebula Conference 2016, Chicago
I write this amid a welter of notes, business cards, and obligations/opportunities acquired over the course of what was, for me, the best Nebula weekend I have ever attended. Part of that was the number of attendees who came up to express their appreciation of the programming, the award ceremony, the events, the overflowing book bags, the volunteers, the Nebulas issue of the Bulletin, the volunteer breakfast, and even with the way that they think SFWA has been going over the course of the last year. That is, to put it mildly, most gratifying, and is among the reasons I returned from Chicago renewed, refreshed, and re-enthused. A little under a year of my two-year presidential term lies behind me; I’m curious to see how much can be achieved in the next year.
Thank you to everyone who attended, both in person or virtually by spreading the word and retweeting. It was a weekend that was full of wonderful community and a chance to connect with new and old friends. There were so many moments that will live in my heart, including:
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Tagged #sfwapro, awards, c.j. cherryh, nebula award weekend, nebula awards 2016, nebula weekend, SFWA, sir terry pratchett
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You Should Read This: An Appreciation of Andre Norton
My high school years were steeped in reading from several F&SF authors. Among them, the most influential was quite probably Andre Norton. In arranging my book collection in those early days, Norton was always satisfying, because she wrote a gazillion books and I had most of them. I know three fantasy landscapes well because I wandered them so often as a young reader: Narnia, Middle Earth, and Norton’s Witch World.
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Recent Online Reading: Short Notes about Short Stories
I loved Kris Dikeman’s Silent, Still and Cold in Beneath Ceaseless Skies. It has a high fantasy sensibility mixed with zombies, which always seems like a win-win to me. Also in this month’s issue is Jesse Bullington’s The Adventures of Ernst, Who Began a Man, Became a Cyclops, and Finished A Hero. Continue reading
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Tagged abyss & apex, ada milenkovic brown, alex dally mcfarlane, alter s. reiss, amal el-mohtar, beneath ceaseless skies, c.j. cherryh, colum paget, corinne duyvis, crossed genres, daily science fiction, gavin grant, high fantasy, j. kathleen cheney, jesse bullington, joselle vanderhooft, ken scholes, kij johnson, kindle, kristine dikeman, lightspeed magazine, mythpunk, online fiction, peter m. ball, philip brewer, redstone science fiction, rose lemberg, shweta narayan, strange horizons, tanith lee, therese arkenburg, tor.com, vylar kaftan, zombies
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