Quick news items
Massachusetts supreme court has ruled that civil unions would be insufficient to satisfy its requirement of equal treatment for same-sex...
Author Archive
From the Hazel Tree
I'm delighted to report that Echo's Children, a.k.a. Cat Faber and Callie Hills, have released their latest (and, sadly, probably...
Worldbuilding and guiding readers
The line between excellent worldbuilding on the one hand, and implausibility and inconsistency on the other, can sometimes be simply...
O Canada
I was going to post this last night, but wanted to check to be sure it was okay first. The...
SH Readers’ Choice Awards
If you read Strange Horizons during 2003, bop on over to the Readers' Choice Awards page and vote for your...
Quick update
Flew up to Tacoma Friday night. Failed pretty much entirely to sleep that night. (Was almost falling asleep reading subs,...
Hugos and WorldCon
Quick reminder: if you weren't a member of last year's WorldCon and you want to nominate for the Hugos, you...
Moby Dick
Extended riff on whale genitalia a la Moby Dick (last paragraph on the page, but probably works best if you...
Gollum acceptance
I've been hearing about Gollum's acceptance speech for the MTV awards, but I hadn't actually seen it 'til now. It's...
Beauty study
Aha! I've been hearing about "that German study about facial attractiveness," but I hadn't gone seeking it out because I...
Out of town
Advance notice: I'll be up in Washington celebrating my grandmother's 96th birthday over the weekend. I'm not sure whether I'll...
Challenger timeline
Spaceflight Now has posted an extremely detailed timeline of the Challenger disaster, including telemetry from the shuttle, transcripts of various...