Webby Awards. AchievementDr. Robert Kahn The Webby Awards take great pride in acknowledging Dr. Robert Kahn with a Webby Lifetime Achievement Award. This award was established to recognize an individual or group of individuals who have played an integral role over time in furthering the creative, technical or professional progress of the Internet. Dr. Nebula Award Nominees. The SFWA has announced the final ballot for the Nebula Awards and from top to bottom, this has to be the most interesting ballot I’ve seen in some time. Not to put too fine a point on it, but I wonder just how much of the tonal change of the ballot stems from this being the first year the nomination voting was done by secret ballot. From my perspective of taste, I think this is a much stronger ballot than previous years. That’s a taste thing, but I really like the looks of this ballot. Congratulations to all of the nominees. I would also like to say that I am extra pleased to see the recognition given to N.
Short Story"Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela", Saladin Ahmed (Clockwork Phoenix 2, Norilana Press, Jul09)"I Remember the Future", Michael A. Rainbows End - Vernor Vinge. Rainbows End is on the Hugo Ballot at the Nippon 2007 world science-fiction convention. Some related pictures Outer and inner illos that Vernor Vinge did for Mysterious Galaxy. UCSD Library as seen from the north and the east. Alexis Smith's Snake Path as seen from an upper floor of the Library. Pyramid Hill as seen from the south. Mass market paperback edition from Tor Books Hardcover edition from Tor Books Vernor Vinge. Blindsight by Peter Watts. Blindsight Peter Watts For Lisa If we're not in pain, we're not alive. "This is what fascinates me most in existence: the peculiar necessity of imagining what is, in fact, real. " —Philip Gourevitch "You will die like a dog for no good reason. " —Ernest Hemingway Prologue "Try to touch the past.
—Ted Bundy It didn't start out here. For me, it began with Robert Paglino. At the age of eight, he was my best and only friend. I arrived at the playground to find Pag the center of attention for some half-dozen kids, those lucky few in front punching him in the head, the others making do with taunts of mongrel and polly while waiting their turn. But I didn't know what to do. I hadn't seen much of Pag lately. I just stood there. That didn't make sense. Or I had, once. But that part of me had been cut out along with the bad wiring. In the end, propaganda worked where empathy failed. A third, turning to face the new threat, took a blow to the face that audibly crunched the bones of his cheek. "Oh," I said. The 9th Annual Independent Games Festival.