Thanks, John! John Klima of Electric Velocipede gives my story “The Spaces Between Things” his Hugo vote. Also of note, friend and fellow Fluidian Saladin Ahmed, whom John suggests for the Campbell Award: http://blog.electricvelocipede.com/2010/03/2010-hugo-nominations.html

Sybil’s Garage will be closing to submissions for our seventh issue on April 12th.  Please make sure to send us your submissions on or before that date.

Here are the Sybil’s Garage submission stats so far: We have received 361 stories, 55 poems We have rejected 234 stories, 25 poems Average response time: 12 days for stories, 15 days for poems Please be on the lookout for a submissions closing date sometime in April.  I will make an official announcement soon.

Last night, the folks in the house wanted to watch the Oscars, but we are all in a house at the top of a small mountain, and there is no television to be found.  But there were many laptops, and broadband wireless.  So with Googled blogs and followed Twitter feeds we discovered several web streams from which to watch the Oscars.  We all huddled around the laptop on the hard floor and watched a satellite feed from England rebroadcast to net viewers by some generous person, and when that failed, …

I’m very happy to announce this morning that my short story “The History Within Us” is up at Clarkesworld Magazine alongside a fine story from Gord Sellar and an interview with Kij Johnson.  You can read my story here.  And you can find the full issue here. The story’s genesis is an interesting one.  My father had several old reels of film from when he was a boy, back in the early 40s, which he had recently converted to DVD.  On one long weekend we added his narrative voice-overs, so he …