(1) ABCD16 AWARDS. Ben Summers’ cover design for Lavie Tidhar’s novel A Man Lies Dreaming has won an Academy of British Cover Design Award in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy category.
The complete shortlist with images of all the covers is at ABCD16 Shortlist and Winners. There are more sf/fantasy books among the finalists in other marketing categories.
(2) MAC II LEADERSHIP REORGANIZES. The 2016 Worldcon decided its communications will be better with a single voice at the top and replaced its three-co-chair structure (“Team LOL”) with a single chairperson, Ruth Lichtwardt.
Diane Lacey, another of the co-chairs, will become a Vice-Chair, and the third, Jeff Orth, is said to be deciding among several options for continuing his work on the con. The decision was shared with the division heads at a meeting last weekend.
(3) AMAZING CELE. Mike Ashley chronicles the reign of Amazing editor Cele Goldsmith in “The AMAZING Story: The Sixties – The Goose-Flesh Factor”. Pulpfest is serializing Ashley’s history of the magazine, first published in its pages in 1992.
[Cele] Goldsmith chose all the material, edited everything, selected the title and blurb typefaces and dummied the monthly magazines by herself. [Norman] Lobsenz, who arrived for an editorial conference usually once a week, penned the editorials, read her choices, and wrote the blurbs for the stories. They did cover blurbs together, and Goldsmith assigned both interior and cover art.
Goldsmith had no scientific background but had a sound judgment of story content and development, and this was the key to her success. She accepted stories on their value as fiction rather than as science fiction. “When I read something I didn’t understand, but intuitively knew was good,” she said, “I’d get ‘goose flesh’ and never doubt we had a winner.” That “goose flesh” was transmitted to the readers. I know when I encountered the Goldsmith AMAZING and FANTASTIC in the early 1960s, I got goose flesh because of the power and originality of their content. As I look now at the 150 or more total issues of those two magazines that Cele Goldsmith edited, that thrill is still there.
Other installments already online are:
- “The AMAZING Story: The Twenties — By Radio to the Stars”
- “The AMAZING Story: The Thirties — Escape from Oblivion”
- “The AMAZING Story: The Forties — ‘Gimme Bang-Bang’”
- “The AMAZING Story: The Fifties — Dream Worlds”
(4) JAR JAR JERSEYS. The Altoona Curve minor league baseball team will host another Star Wars night – if the team isn’t too embarrassed to take the field….
Last year, the team wore these beautiful Jabba the Hutt jerseys. For our Star Wars Night, we’re following that up with a jersey featuring another controversial Star Wars character, Jar Jar Binks. Like last season, we will have appearances by the Garrison Cardida of the 501st Legion.
To follow up last year's gorgeous Jabba the Hutt jerseys, here are the jerseys for #StarWars Night 2016. #JarJar pic.twitter.com/jMbUKX3K3m
— Altoona Curve (@AltoonaCurve) February 23, 2016
Meanwhile, the Birmingham Barons have enlisted fans to pick the Star Wars-themed jersey their players will wear during a game this season.
Join the @BhamBarons on Facebook to help them choose this season's Star Wars Night jersey! pic.twitter.com/Ai4a7phWEE
— Minor League Promos (@MiLBPromos) January 13, 2016
(5) GREAT POWERS. An interview with Tim Powers conducted by Nick Givers has been posted at PS Publishing.
NICK GEVERS: In your new novel, Medusa’s Web, you set out a very interesting and mesmerizingly complex metaphysical scheme, of spider images that draw human minds up and down the corridors of time. What first suggested this scenario to you?
TIM POWERS: I thought it would be fun to play around with two-dimensional adversaries after reading Cordwainer Smith’s short story, “The Game of Rat and Dragon.” I decided that since such creatures would be dimensionally handicapped by definition, why not have them be fourth-dimensionally handicapped too? I.e. they don’t perceive time, and therefore every encounter these creatures have with humans is, from the creature’s point of view, the same event. So by riding along on the point of view of one of them, you can briefly inhabit whatever other encounters it’s had with humans, regardless of when those encounters happened or will happen.
This seemed like an opportunity for lots of dramatic developments, and even one very intriguing paradox for our protagonist to blunder through.
(6) A MOVIE RECOMMENDATION. Zootopia is getting a lot of buzz, and Max Florschutz agrees it’s a winner in a review at Unusual Things.
First, a quick summary for those of you who just want the yay or nay: Zootopia is an excellent, wonderful film with a lot of heart, a lot of adventure, and a wonderful moral at its core that wraps up everything in a fantastic way. Put it on your list.
Now, the longer explanation….
(7) TIM BURTON PROJECT. Entertainment Weekly has a report on “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (film)”, due in theaters September 30.
In Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, the latest fantasy from director Tim Burton, Asa Butterfield plays Jake, a 16-year-old plagued by nightmares following a family tragedy.
On the advice of his therapist, the teen embarks on an overseas journey to find the abandoned orphanage where his late grandfather claims to have once lived. Not only does the place turn out to be real, it also serves as the gateway to an alternate realm where children with strange powers are looked after by a magical guardian (Penny Dreadful star Eva Green) and time moves of its own accord.
(8) POLITICAL SCIENCE FICTION. At the B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, Andrew Liptak names “6 Political SF Novels as Bingeable as House of Cards”. One of them is –
Jennifer Government, by Max Barry
Max Barry’s second novel is a fantastic satire of globalized trade and the deregulation of industry. In this alternate future, the United States has taken over much of north and south America, with government and its services privatized. Citizens take on the names of their employers, and the titular Jennifer Government is an agent tasked with tracking down the perpetrators of a series of murders . The crime turns out to be an attempt by Nike to drum up notoriety for a new line of shoes, but the plot quickly escalated beyond what anyone planned. It’s a ridiculous, often funny book that shows off a very different, but scarily plausible, hyper-commercial world.
(9) ONCE MORE INTO THE SPEECH. MD Jackson touts favorite examples of “The Rousing Speech” at Amazing Stories.
There’s always a rousing speech.
When the odds are against you, when the forces of darkness, or the alien invaders, or the giant lizards have gathered and your pitifully small band of heroes stand against them, the single vanguard against annihilation, what does your leader do?
Well, if he’s any kind of leader he starts talking.
Motivational speeches keep your team together and focused. Rousing speeches keep your smallish army from losing soldiers due to desertion rather than the upcoming decimation. And it’s got to be a doozy of a speech in order to make otherwise sensible men and women stand with you against almost certain death….
One of my favorite rousing speeches comes from an episode of Star Trek. In Return to Tomorrow, a second season episode from 1968, William Shatner throws all the weight of his dramatic acting into a rousing speech: The infamous “Risk is our business…” speech. It doesn’t come before a battle, but before three of the crew, including Kirk, decide to have ancient powerful aliens take over their bodies. Despite the context and the odd placement of the speech which doesn’t really further the plot, the speech has become iconic for its application to the entire Star Trek universe through all the series and movies. It kind of sums up what Star Trek is all about.
Risk. Risk is our business. That’s what this starship is all about. That’s why we’re aboard her.
And with Shatner`s just-shy-of-bombast delivery, the speech is kind of powerful.
(10) TONY DYSON OBIT. The builder of the original R2-D2, Tony Dyson, died March 4 reports the BBC.
The 68-year-old Briton was found by police after a neighbour called them, concerned his door was open.
He is thought to have died of natural causes. A post-mortem is being carried out to determine cause of death.
Dyson was commissioned to make eight R2-D2 robots for the film series. He said working on it was “one of the most exciting periods of my life”.
The look of R2-D2 was created by the conceptual designer Ralph McQuarrie who also created Darth Vader, Chewbacca and C-3PO.
Prof Dyson, who owned The White Horse Toy Company, was commissioned to make eight models plus the master moulds and an additional head.
He made four remote control units – two units for the actor Kenny Baker to sit in with a seat fitted inside and two throw away units to be used in a bog scene in Empire Strikes Back where a monster spits out the droid onto dry land, from the middle of the swamp.
(11) TODAY IN HISTORY
- March 4, 1967 — Neal Hefti won a Grammy for our favorite song, the “Batman Theme.”
(12) YO, GROOT! According to the Daily News, Sylvester Stallone has joined the cast of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Who might Stallone be playing? Perhaps, Peter Quill’s (Pratt) father. We know that coveted role will appear in the sequel. However, most people assume Kurt Russell already snagged that part and a source for the Daily News says Stallone’s role is just a cameo.
(13) KRYPTON ENNOBLED. As Yahoo! News tells the story, “Polish chemists tried to make kryptonite and failed, but then made a huge discovery”.
Avert your eyes, Superman, because according to news out of Poland this morning, a team of chemists just got awfully close to actually creating the fictional substance of kryptonite. Don’t sweat too much though, Clark — the scientists were only able to bond the element of krypton with oxygen (as opposed to nitrogen) which wound up creating krypton monoxide. Inability to create real kryptonite notwithstanding, the fact the chemists successfully bonded krypton with anything is a revelatory achievement for an element previously known to be entirely unreactive. In light of the success, krypton (which is a noble gas like helium and neon) is no longer considered inert.
Conducted at the Polish Academy of Sciences, a team of chemists ran krypton through a series of various tests to build off a previous study positing that the chemical may react with hydrogen or carbon under extreme conditions. What they discovered — and subsequently published in Scientific Reports — was that krypton, while under severe pressure, also has the ability to form krypton oxides after bonding with oxygen. Thing is, the chemists didn’t actually see the reaction happen, but rather, used genetic algorithms to theorize its likelihood.
(14) GUESS WHY ZINES ARE COMING BACK? News from Australia — “Sticky Institute: Internet trolls sparks resurgence of zines ahead of Festival of the Photocopier”.
Photocopied zines are making a comeback, with some young self-publishers keen to escape the attention of online trolls.
While the internet has democratised publishing, allowing anyone to potentially reach a global audience with the click of a button, vitriolic internet comments are pushing some writers back to a medium last popular in the 1990s.
Zines, or fanzines, are self-published, handmade magazines usually produced in short runs on photocopiers or home printers.
Thomas Blatchford volunteers at Melbourne zine store Sticky Institute, which is preparing for its annual Festival of the Photocopier later this month….
While unsure of the exact reason for the resurgence of zines, Mr Blatchford said it was more than just a “weird nostalgia thing”.
He said some zine-makers had been scared away from online publishing because of unkind comments from people on the internet.
“There’s some horrible people on there,” he said.
(15) BATTLE OF THE BURRITO. John Scalzi is engaged in a culinary duel with Wil Wheaton.
Some of you may be aware of the existential battle that Wil Wheaton and I are currently engaged in, involving burritos. I am of the opinion that anything you place into a tortilla, if it is then folded into a burrito shape, is a burrito of some description; Wil, on the other hand, maintains that if it is not a “traditional” burrito, with ingredients prepared as they were in the burrito’s ancestral home of Mexico, is merely a “wrap.”
Expect someone to write a post soon complaining that Scalzi is doing to Mexican food what he did to sf, by which I mean someone longing for the days when you could tell what you were buying by looking at the tortilla cover…
[Thanks to John King Tarpinian, Brian Z., Martin Morse Wooster, Andrew Porter, and Chip Hitchcock for some of these stories. Title credit belongs to File 770 contributing editor of the day Soon Lee.]
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(15) BATTLE OF THE BURRITO
A good story to wrap up with, Mike.
(Is that my coat?)
(ETA: beats Snowcrash by seconds)
::blink::
Everyone asleep?
Anyway. First.*
Also, the #15 video can be used for so many wrong things….
* – Where First = Second.
Damn you @Mark, I’ll get you, and your little kitteh too!
@Snowcrash
I suggest we show Scalzi and Wheaton how it’s done by joining forces in an attack on the true First!
Fiiiiiiiii……th.
First and true fifth!
Sixth. There, I said it. Sixth is VERY unappreciated if you ask me.
You are number six.
::ticky::
I am not a number. I am a free* pixel!
* Limited time offer. Void where prohibited. Subsequent pixels may incur surcharges. Offer not valid in the states of Wyoming, Utah, or Nirvana.
(5) GREAT POWERS
I’d love to read that interview, but I’ve shamefully failed to get around to reading Medusa’s Web yet.
(8) POLITICAL SCIENCE FICTION
Oh no, you’ve reminded me that the new House of Cards has dropped. I don’t have 12 hours spare right now….
(Also: ObBrit claim that the BBC original was better)
—-
I did get a chance to watch The Expanse recently though, and it made me very happy indeed to see SyFy invest in making proper SF. Wikipedia tells me that the first 4 eps were broadcast in 2015, and Ep 4 is the big spectacular “CQB”, so I’m seriously considering it for BDP-short. I could make an argument for any of Eps 1-3 as well, of course. Tricky.
You might think that, I couldn’t possibly comment.
@Mark
You might think that, I couldn’t possibly comment.
ETA: ninja’d.
Should anyone be interested, a few krypton compounds are known.
Krypton difluoride was discovered over 50 years ago.
There a number of compounds with fluorokrypton and trifluorodikrypton cations, such as fluorokrypton hexafluoroantimonate or fluorokrypton hexafluoroarsenate (the anions have to be saturated with fluorine, as otherwise the fluorine in the fluorokrypton deserts the krypton for something more reactive).
An oxygen containing compound, krypton bispentafluorooxotellurate, is known.
Fluorohydrocyanokrypton hexafluoroarsenate is also reported.
Re: Kryptonite. I never thought that Kryptonite actually had the element Krypton in it in anyway
Paul
You have just shattered my illusions!
I shall have to go back to staring at my nominations list, gloomily reflecting that, knowing my ability mangle technology merely by being in its presence, I should have relied on bits of paper and a pencil.
ETA
In England we have organic hot dogs which I adore. The Mermaid Parade at Coney Island put me off the US version for life. It matters not what you wrap them in…
(15) The word “wrap” to describe food folded in a tortilla dates back to about 1998. So what did we call faux burritos in the 60+ years before someone decided to call them wraps?
At least they didn’t start debating what’s in chili. Things might have gotten ugly.
@Jack Lint,
Fauxrritos?
Number Toaster!
I find it very irresponsible to be posting articles relating to food controversies on this, of all sites. As a Californian, of course I have no opinions on the subject and will refrain from commenting further until such time as I have had a couple of beers and someone has genitally injured my sense of justice with some terrible lie about the true nature of burritos.
Kathodus: until such time as I have had a couple of beers and someone has genitally injured my sense of justice
I’m not even gonna ask how someone would go about doing that.
For funsies, here is the “Risk Is Our Business” speech from the YouTubes. When I look it now, I see Shatner’s theatrical training standing out. That big smile he breaks into at 1:08 seems like what a man who has been schooled in the importance of “Explore, Heighten and Transform” (under whatever name) would do.
@Jack Lint
Beans AND Meat. All else is heresy. Except that from Ohio which is an ABOMINATION!
Onward Chili soldiers, marching as to war….
“someone longing for the days when you could tell what you were buying by looking at the tortilla cover”
Mike, I may not have the best examples in the world to offer, but please accept this humble Internet.
Meanwhile, I propose “The Unbearable Fuzziness of Burritos” for a scroll title.
@JJ – Wow, awesome typo. Grievously, dammit, grievously.
My phone also tried to autocorrect Californian to clitoridectomy, but at least I caught that one.
ETA in case you’re wondering, no, this is not an indication that I have much more bizarre interactions elsewhere. I don’t believe I’ve ever typed either of those terms on my phone before.
Hello, filers!
I have a request. I am going on a very long trip soon and need something to listen to to keep me company. Any suggestions on audiobooks or podcasts to bring with?
Clicky
@Fugue – I always enjoy Radiolab!
7) Ooof. My feelings on Miss Peregrine’s have evolved over time from disappointment to active dislike, which is rare for me. I think it’s the lost potential–such a great set-up for a gothic body horror with evil children, and it went Baby Xmen instead. But it is wildly popular, so obviously I’m in a minority.
You can be a Texas chili purist and deny the beans. I don’t much care, but I’ll point out that “chile con carne” means chili peppers with meat. The first chili cook-off of our modern age, by the way, was between H. Allen Smith and Wick Fowler, and is described in Smith’s book, The Great Chili Confrontation.
When I was working at the University of Houston, one of the student assistants came to me and said she needed a drawing of a dead rat and a drawing of a dead cockroach to make a sign for Ugly Billy’s entry (Dr. Mayes insisted we call him Ugly Billy) in a chili cook-off. The cockroach I drew was forgettable, but the dead rat is a work of art. I made it into a letterhead and a business card for Ugly Billy.
Digression: I was at my desk one day (I was a word processing guy in the physics department), and Dr. Mayes showed up, demanding a piece of chalk. He knew I kept a small supply of the precious sticks for professors caught without it. I held out a fresh, unused piece, but instead of taking it, he looked at it for a few moments, then looked up and said, “Gimme two pieces!” So I deftly broke it into two pieces and gave them to him. He took them and hurried off to his class without another word.
Kathodus, if it will make you feel better, in February I discovered my phone was inserting an unwanted ‘er’ into the word ‘bugged’ so when I thought I had bugged someone or other, I was actually sending messaged that said something very different. And I use bugged a lot.
What I use in place of audiobooks on longish drives is radio shows. Much of radio comedy turns out to be merely embarrassing, so I listen mostly to drama and detective stuff. Archive.org is a great source, with hours and hours of Lux Radio Theater and Screen Guild broadcasts, Orson Welles (His output includes Shakespeare, Dumas, Tarkington, Stoker, and even Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday He did Les Miserables in a seven-part serial that helped the miles roll by.). There are some fairly good genre shows as well, like the Phillip Marlowe series (which never reaches Chandler levels, but has a certain charm), as well as some actual adaptations of the movies at Lux. The Nero Wolfe series, with Sydney Greenstreet an acceptable Wolfe. The ‘sample’ episode that persuaded me to buy the series on CD from a vendor (OTRCAT.com) before I was aware of Archive’s vast holdings was actually the best of the lot, and could have passed for a lesser original story. It was written by a chap named Bester. I also invested a fiver in a download of all (more likely most) of the National Lampoon Radio Hour, and have yet to regret doing that. CBS’s Radio Workshop has some great shows, if you avoid the humorous stuff. Their adaptation of “The Little Prince,” with Richard Beals, Hans Conried, and narrated by Raymond Burr is a jewel. A show called ‘This Is My Best” is worth looking into for Robert Benchley as Walter Mitty in the only, ONLY worthwhile adaptation of Thurber’s short story that has ever been crafted.
(But check out the Lux version of “The Maltese Falcon,” with Edward G. Robinson as Sam Spade. And “Shadow of a Doubt” with William Powell in the Joseph Cotten role. And the first two Thin Man movies, adapted for Lux radio, with what seems like 9/10 of the original cast intact. And “It’s a Wonderful Life,” with… I’m running out of time to edit.)
And, worthy of its own paragraph, Jean Shepherd’s show can be found with some searching. I don’t know if flicklives.com still has an archive that’s easy to plunder or not, but I invested many hours in downloading enough shows to fill many a sleepless night — I just checked my disks, and there are 14GB of mp3s there, and they’re mostly at a reasonably low bitrate. He was an amazing radio personality, and the best part of him is in that audio, where he spins plausibly incredible tales, allegedly from his life (actually fictional), always circling around to a climactic denouement just in time to cue his theme music and head off into the crepuscular dawn.
@Kip your story about the chalk reminds me of an ancedote Asimov related in one of his essay about a professor, imaginary numbers and the meaning of a half piece of chalk.
Paul, is there a collection of Asimov essays? That suddenly sounds very desirable to me. Something along the lines of the two-volume Library of America set of Twain’s short pieces, which are simply the two best volumes of Twain in existence.
(8): Barry’s Jennifer Government is indeed terrific.
@kip sadly, the essay collections (e.g. Asimov on Numbers, Asimov on Chemistry, etc) are all out of print. It would be nice if someone put them all together into one or two or three books. I’d buy the hell out of it.
I rise to support Texas chili purists. As an apex predator, I eat things that eat plants, let the cows eat the beans.
And I think we can all agree, the proper response for (15) is OH JONH SCALZI NO…
Antonin Scalia would no doubt have some “originalist” things to say about food stuffs:
Creamed Ice is vanilla. Those other things with different flavors and all manner of stuff mixed into it are more properly “frozen deserts” (yes, even including B&J’s Cherrys Garcia). Not “ice cream”.
Pizza has dough, tomato sauce and cheese, is made in the round and cut into pie slices. I don’t know what to call all that other crap they keep on calling “pizza”, especially that effrontery to good sense called a “white” pizza. That’s an open-faced cheese sandwich trying to punch above its weight.
Lucky Charms has four marshmallow shapes and colors; pink hearts, yellow moons, orange stars, and green clovers, not eight. Eight colors and shapes is taking this diversity thing a bit too far.
M&Ms red is fake ever since they stopped using red dye number 2. The blue ones make me sick on sight: George Carlin stated that there is no such thing as blue food and he was right (but not about most things).
Cadbury chocolates made by Mondelez is a perfect example of why reverse-out-sourcing is a bad idea.
“Soda” is not something you make at home.
@kip sadly, the essay collections (e.g. Asimov on Numbers, Asimov on Chemistry, etc) are all out of print.
In my experience, your best bet for finding copies of these books is library book sales and sometimes used book stores. I have acquired several from tsuch sources, including Asimov on Physics, Asimov on Numbers, and The Wellspring of Life. It does take time and luck though.
@Antonin Scalia
Some “originalist”! I don’t see a word here about the sickly glaze of corn syrup that suffuses the oat component of Lucky Charms nowadays. I don’t just mean that corn sweetener has supplanted the sugar our Founding Leprechauns intended, I refer to the fact that the oat component used to be entirely unfrosted, and perhaps entirely unsweeteened! (Ingredients lists then were written in an archaic lingo that is hard for modern readers to divine without extensive study.)
And while I’m on the subject, I must object to the pacification (some would use a stronger term) of Lucky the Leprechaun, who is now a lily-livered enabler of children getting this part of a good nutritious breakfast! While he may momentarily pretend (in a thirty-second or shorter remnant of what God clearly meant to be a full minute of commercial hard-sell!) to resist the depradations of these juvenile usurpers, he spends most of his time in sickmaking kissing up (sadly, this is the hallmark of all animated cereal spokesmen, even those who pretend to be ‘edgy’) to the disgusting kids, who stand around at all hours of the day, reeking of popcorn and lollipops. Whatever became of the plucky little nasty bastard we used to love? “Always after me Lucky Charms! I’ll make a machine gun—and blow their asses to Hell!”
Ah, Lucky, we hardly knew ye!
The original colors of M&M were brown, yellow, green, red and violet. Where are our violet M&Ms? We have lost our candy heritage!
@aaron I’ve managed to own, and read to pieces, two copies of Asimov on Numbers in my life 🙂
I can only say Bah(!) to your Lucky Charms. Old or new, new or old, they are an effeminate affectation of our age.
There was a time before. A time of manly breakfasts. A snip here, a snail there, maybe a sausage of the finest puppy dog tail.
Now it’s all sugar, and spice, and ‘everything nice’ served up in a heaping bowl of affirmative action morning sadness.
CORRUPTION AND DEGENERACY!
I just checked and abebooks.com has many used copies of those “Asimov on….” titles. Not as much fun as rummaging in a used bookstore, but great for rounding out collections.
I’ve found that eBay is a surprisingly good place to get used oop books provided you shop around. Prices vary quite a bit. I think some people use the Harold the Flying Sheep approach to book pricing*. For example, there are several affordable copies of Asimov on Numbers at the moment and several that are wildly overpriced.
You can also try ABEbooks which is an amalgamation of used book stores.
* “Because of the enormous commercial possibilities should he succeed.”
Stoic Cynic
What you are looking for is Soylent Green. True, you can’t buy it in most grocery stores, but you can get it through Amazon. (If you specify ‘snips and snails,’ they know what you mean.) If you buy it through my link, part of the money goes to a fund to benefit impoverished kids in backward areas by taking them out of squalor and sending them to a farm upstate where they can chase rabbits all day.
Hey, Mike, in #5 Nick Gevers’ name is misspelled in the first sentence as Givers.
The Raadchai don’t even have a separate word for “burrito.”
@Kip W.
Funny you should mention that. Just the other day I came upon a cookbook, How to Serve Man, that called for Soylent Green in several recipes. I have to admit it seemed outre, maybe even alien, when I skimmed the contents but the foreword by Jonathon Swift really pulled me in.
[tick-tock]
Second “CQB” episode of The Expanse. I also had my mind thoroughly blown by the last episode of Amazon’s The Man in the High Castle. (I haven’t read the book, so I don’t know if the final scene, jurer Gntbzv nccneragyl zrqvgngrf uvzfrys vagb bhe ernyvgl, is in there. Also, Rufus Sewell should be nominated for an Emmy.)
@Bonnie McDaniel: They should just give Rufus Sewell the Best Supporting Actor Emmy now, IMHO.
Just finished A Thousand Nights by E.K Johnston. I really enjoyed this book. Her first book appears to have been published in 2014 so I am adding her to my Campbell longlist. No short stories appeared when I googled her.