…e Kindle, 7 euros. DRM-protected, MOBI format , found only after extensive search (amazon turned out to be the only seller I’ve found which would take my French money for this particular ebook). Can be lent to friends exactly once in the entire lifetime of the book. And, of course, my ebook reader doesn’t read MOBI, so we’re looking at cracking the DRM on my own ebook and converting it to epub via Calibre, probably losing a lot in the process (and…

…der down the aisles quietly (also, I’m a surprisingly chatty person in the company of like-minded people). -Goodies. What I love about this eastercon team (same one that put together Eastercon 2008, both most impressive cons in terms of organisation) is that they give a mug in the goodies bag, which is awesome. I also got an extra mug courtesy of Carl Rafala of Immersion Press, who had printed out personalised mugs for all the authors in his forth…

…out here, and tell me what you think. Author’s notes forthcoming Thursday or Friday, depending how much free time I have. Electric Velocipede is also having a kickstarter to fund their next year of online fiction, here: if you want to support quirky online fiction, this is the place! ETA: edited this slightly to save my comments on the story for the author’s notes….

…ou chose to stay, and she wouldn’t allow you. She made a choice; you can’t come back on that. Come, let’s go home. Your bridegroom will be waiting for you, if you still wish to marry.” Jun shivered. “Yes,” she said. “Let’s go home.” They walked back to Fengjin together in silence. Behind them, the white light of the moon played on the rushing waters, a drowned, colourless memory of the sunlight in Autumn’s country. END Honorable Mention, Year’s Be…

…ches their new website–and their electronic edition. To celebrate, you can download the February 2010 issue for free (and read my short story “Mélanie” as well as Ann Leckie‘s awesome “The Unknown God”, a cool tribal-ish fantasy about gods and their powers, which reminded me of Greg Keye’s The Waterborn and Blackgod). Angry Robot has gorgeous covers for Kaaron Warren‘s Walking the Tree, Colin Harvey‘s Damage Time and Andy Remic‘s Soul Stealers. I…

…its cost and its impact on those who are left behind. Available here as a PDF from the TTA press website. -“The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers from Beneath the Queen’s Window” by Rachel Swirsky (Novella): a tale of a woman summoned again and again from beyond death to practise magic–dealing with loss, prejudice and the evolution of cultures and countries, and a great reversal on the “summoning demons” trope. Available here from Subterranean. ETA: m…

…and privilege I derive from being a member of SFWA (most of the rest being really focused on the US), and I fully intend to make the most of it 🙂 Meanwhile, if you’re a member of SFWA and unsure what to vote for, may I suggest: -“Alternate Girl’s Expatriate Life”, by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz (Short Story): a great story of immigration, alienation and man vs. machine. Available on the SFWA forums. -“Flying in the Face of God” by Nina Allan (Novelette):…

-Locus goes digital (pdf editions for sure, perhaps epub and kindle). Awesome. Probably the excuse I needed to resubscribe without having paper copies cluttering my house. -Via Cheryl Morgan and the World SF blog, the fund raiser for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Award. Prizes include things donated by Neil Gaiman, and Jeff and Ann VanDerMeer. I’ve ranted quite often enough about the prevalence of Western Anglophone SF in the SF fie…

…ity of the Swan”, first published in the Art Issue of Shimmer, is on the Recommended Reading List for the Best American Fantasy, vol 3. It’s not a lengthy list, either. And it includes one other story from Shimmer, MK Hobson’s “The Hand of the Devil on a String” in issue 9, in addition to Kuzhali Manickavel’s “Flying and Falling”, also from the Art Issue, which is in the actual TOC of the book. Wow. Go Shimmer! To celebrate, Shimmer is having a pr…

…n soot; and the Seine… the Seine not only runs black with ashes, but has become the place you really don’t want to get close to: the accumulated spells have turned dark, and people who walk too close to the river banks get snatched and dragged underwater; or strangled by tendrils they can’t see… Even bending over a bridge can rapidly turn lethal. Nice place to live in, isn’t it? :p Also, yes. If you’re holding an island like Ile Saint-Louis, Ile d…