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Worldbuilding and guiding readers

The line between excellent worldbuilding on the one hand, and implausibility and inconsistency on the other, can sometimes be simply...

Jed

February 3, 2004
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O Canada

I was going to post this last night, but wanted to check to be sure it was okay first. The...

Jed

February 2, 2004
2 Comments

SH Readers’ Choice Awards

If you read Strange Horizons during 2003, bop on over to the Readers' Choice Awards page and vote for your...

Jed

February 2, 2004
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Quick update

Flew up to Tacoma Friday night. Failed pretty much entirely to sleep that night. (Was almost falling asleep reading subs,...

Jed

February 2, 2004
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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...

Jed

January 30, 2004
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Moby Dick

Extended riff on whale genitalia a la Moby Dick (last paragraph on the page, but probably works best if you...

Jed

January 30, 2004
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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...

Jed

January 30, 2004
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Beauty study

Aha! I've been hearing about "that German study about facial attractiveness," but I hadn't gone seeking it out because I...

Jed

January 30, 2004
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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...

Jed

January 29, 2004
1 Comment

Challenger timeline

Spaceflight Now has posted an extremely detailed timeline of the Challenger disaster, including telemetry from the shuttle, transcripts of various...

Jed

January 28, 2004
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Submissions and spam

After a couple of weeks of barely-higher-than-normal submission volume, we're back to nearly double normal volume again this week. It...

Jed

January 28, 2004
4 Comments

Today

Went to bed at 1 a.m. Was awakened at 5:20 by loud machinery somewhere within a half-block of here; not...

Jed

January 28, 2004
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