On the one hand: Sadness! Tim didn't win the Nebula! :(<\/p>\n
On the other hand: Cool! Carol Emshwiller won<\/a> not only the Nebula (for short story \"Creature\") but the Philip K. Dick Award (for The Mount<\/cite>)!<\/p>\n Although I'd of course have been totally delighted if Tim had picked up a Nebula, I'm really pleased that Carol's been getting so much attention these past couple years. I admit that I'd never heard of her before we did an author-focus issue on her a couple years ago, but I've become a fan.<\/p>\n In other news, the Hugo ballot<\/a> was announced the other day. I'm disappointed that nothing SH<\/cite>-related made the ballot, but pleased to see folks like Frank Wu, Charlie Finlay, David Levine, and Ken Wharton appear in various categories. I was rather startled to see a story from a hitherto-unknown-to-me online magazine called Nexxus<\/a>;<\/cite> apparently they've published twelve issues, pay pro rates, and specialize in literary speculative fiction.<\/p>\n I was also a bit startled to see that Ansible<\/cite> has moved to the semiprozine category, though in retrospect I vaguely recall hearing that that was going to happen. It'll be interesting to see whether the unstoppable force of David Langford can beat the immovable object of Locus.<\/cite> (Though that's a bit of hyperbole on my part; Langford frequently wins the Fan Writer category, but Ansible<\/cite> only infrequently wins the Fanzine category.) Good news: both Interzone<\/cite> and Speculations<\/cite> remain on the ballot in that category, along with NYRSF.<\/cite> Last year the other semiprozine nominated was Absolute Magnitude,<\/cite> but I think they've gone pro by raising their rates; before that it was Science Fiction Chronicle,<\/cite> which went pro by going over 10K circulation. It's too bad, though, that the standard five leave no room for either the long-established but lesser-known print fiction semipros (On Spec,<\/cite> Talebones,<\/cite> et alia) or the relatively new online semipros (Ideomancer<\/a>,<\/cite> Abyss & Apex<\/a>,<\/cite> Fortean Bureau<\/a>,<\/cite> et alia). (Forgive me, all of you whose publications I left out; those were meant to be representative samplings, but by no means complete lists.)<\/p>\n