The most recent 20 comments posted to Electrolite by Jeff Smith:

We drive Tachyon mad with the Tiptree Award Anthology because it's so dependent on what the Tiptree Award jury decides each year -- they aren't done until March, and the publisher needs catalog copy in January. We can tell Tachyon nothing. They sigh, and vamp.

As for my own reading, I don't read nearly as much as I used to, or would like to, and I read pretty randomly all over the place. I love plot, and am always happy to reread a John D. MacDonald book just to revel in plot. But I also loved "Keyboard Practice, consisting of an Aria with diverse Variations for the Harpsichord with two manuals," my favorite story out of recent magazine reading (recognizing while reading it that not everyone would be as fond of it as I was). I don't know that I can actually figure out what my taste is at the moment.

I'll be buying the teen anthology, though.

Self-described "naturally gifted" (yet somehow unpublished) horror/sf writer outed and ousted for spreading rumors about Democratic politician on Republican web site:

news story:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9313-2005Feb8.html?sub=AR

profile of Joseph Steffan:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/politics/bal-te.md.bio09feb09,1,737243.story?coll=bal-home-headlines

republican -- paternal

democrat -- maternal

Let's leave aside the notion that Americans would never embrace a voting system named after a French mathematician...

It seems to play out pretty easily in practice, but the explanation is murder. The Hugo voting system is hard enough to explain to the uninitiated, and that's a lot simpler. And wouldn't the results be the same?

Actually, Lenny, the article does include the line, "Warner also wrote science fiction stories..."

It is a very good piece.

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