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A decrepit fleet sails from Germany to play its role in a futile war, crewed by sailors who seem more eager to kill each other than the perfidious Australians.

The Heirs of Babylon by Glen Cook

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Best Novel: Someone You Can Build a Nest In, John Wiswell (DAW; Arcadia UK)

Best Novella: The Dragonfly Gambit, A.D. Sui (Neon Hemlock)

Best Novelette: Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being, A.W. Prihandita (Clarkesworld 11/24)

Short Story: Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole, Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld 2/24)

Andre Norton Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction: The Young Necromancer’s Guide to Ghosts, Vanessa Ricci-Thode (self-published)

Best Game Writing: A Death in Hyperspace, Stewart C Baker, Phoebe Barton, James Beamon, Kate Heartfield, Isabel J. Kim, Sara S. Messenger, Naca Rat, Natalia Theodoridou, M. Darusha Wehm, Merc Fenn Wolfmoor (Infomancy.net)

Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation: Dune: Part Two by Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve (Warner Bros)

Kevin O'Donnell, Jr Special Service Award: C.J. Lavigne

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Voters in Conservative and NDP ridings die younger, study suggests

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A foundling boy raised by a great snake becomes intrigued by a reclusive calligrapher living near the river snake and boy call home.

Numamushi by Mina Ikemoto Ghosh

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When a woman looked around her for her husband, who had been right behind her on the stairs but was now nowhere to be seen. I was very worried I was facing a repeat of the time not too long ago when I spent an hour looking for a missing patron.

The missing husband turned out not to have been behind his wife on the stairs after all, so mystery solved. The missing patron I spent that hour looking for was found once I thought about where she had to be to have not been found where we looked: row H or J, somewhere near seat 26.

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An arduous journey in a prince's entourage offers a courier escape from immediate, judicial danger, at the cost of an entirely different assortment of dangers.

The Witch Roads (The Witch Roads, volume 1) by Kate Elliott

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Pursuing their vow to bring down the government, NDP ... do nothing of the sort.

I wonder if they got phone calls from voters expressing their displeasure at the prospect of an election so soon after the previous one?

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by trying to force an election.

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The core rulebook in .PDF from SOULMUPPET

Bundle of Holding: Inevitable

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Mission accomplished! Quest completed! Now what...?

Five Stories About What Happens After You’ve Defeated the Big Bad

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Exuberant Youko and stoic Airi continue their tour through the remaining wonders of post-apocalyptic Japan. Carpe diem!

Touring After the Apocalypse, volume 4 by Sakae Saito

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In an uncommon turn for famed author Card, he presents a very special boy in very difficult circumstances faced with great responsibility. What will the Young People make of it?

Young People Read Old Nebula Finalists: Mikal's Songbird by Orson Scott Card

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This sure is different from how RPGs were covered in the news in the 1980s.

It never occurred to me that people would be worried about playing wrong. Would-be gatekeepers complaining that people play wrong, sure. I am sure that started in 1974. But I didn't consider performance anxiety.

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Made-to-order slaves fear their eccentric owner will tire of and dispose of them... until a calamity renders the issue moot.

Port Eternity by C J Cherryh

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blood work results in. I am immune to measles, mumps, and some other stuff I didn't not. Not Hep A or B, though.

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For Pride Month, an assortment of LGBTQ+-themed tabletop roleplaying games.

Bundle of Holding: Pride Games

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It's not about winning, it's about doing your best! And also winning!

Five SFF Works About Contests and Competition

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1999: Both the new Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales have their first meetings, the Millennium Dome (certainly not a name that will rapidly date) is completed, and hard-working programmers strive to limit the effects of the Millennium Bug, unaware success will be rewarded with mass amnesia.

Poll #33190 Clarke Award Finalists 1999

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 31

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Which 1999 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?

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Dreaming in Smoke by Tricia Sullivan
9 (29.0%)

Cavalcade by Alison Sinclair
3 (9.7%)

Earth Made of Glass by John Barnes
14 (45.2%)

The Cassini Division by Ken MacLeod
24 (77.4%)

The Extremes by Christopher Priest
4 (12.9%)

Time on My Hands: A Novel with Photographs by Peter Delacorte
0 (0.0%)

Bold for have read, italic for intend to read,, underline for never heard of it.

Which 1999 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
Dreaming in Smoke by Tricia Sullivan
Cavalcade by Alison Sinclair
Earth Made of Glass by John Barnes
The Cassini Division by Ken MacLeod
The Extremes by Christopher Priest
Time on My Hands: A Novel with Photographs by Peter Delacorte

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I like to look at online real estate listings to see how people use interior spaces. I've come to the conclusions that:

A: Few people use more than 2000 square feet effectively. Above that, they seem to run out of ideas about how to use each room*.
B: Lots of houses have gratuitous features whose purpose seems to be to make them unusable to mobility impaired people.
C: (this is the stupid one) Townhouses are fine but I hate the idea of a duplex. For some reason, having to cooperate with 50 people bothers me more than having to get along with one specific person or family.

* More libraries is always the right answer.

There was a place for sale just up the road from me whose entire basement was given over to sturdy-looking bookcases.

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Five books new to me: 4 novels, 1 collection, 3.5 fantasies, 1 horror, 0.5 science fiction (The collection has both fantasy and SF). 1 is explicitly part of a series, 3 are not, and that question seems inapplicable to the collection.

Books Received, May 24 to May 30

Poll #33185 Books Received, May 24 to May 30

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Which of these look interesting?

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Midnight on the Celestial by Julia Alexandra (March 2026)
12 (30.8%)

Fate’s Bane by C. L. Clark (September 2025)
9 (23.1%)

These Familiar Walls by C. J. Dotson (April 2026)
6 (15.4%)

Through Gates of Garnet and Gold by Seanan McGuire (January 2026)
17 (43.6%)

Tailored Realities by Brandon Sanderson (December 2025)
3 (7.7%)

Some other option (see comments)
0 (0.0%)

Cats!
29 (74.4%)

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Page Summary

james_davis_nicoll - The Heirs of Babylon by Glen Cook
james_davis_nicoll - Nebula winners announced
james_davis_nicoll - Let me pull out good old reliable "interesting if true"
james_davis_nicoll - Numamushi by Mina Ikemoto Ghosh
james_davis_nicoll - I had a tiny little tense moment last night
james_davis_nicoll - The Witch Roads (The Witch Roads, volume 1) by Kate Elliott
james_davis_nicoll - NDP display firm resolve
james_davis_nicoll - NDP celebrate electoral trounsing
james_davis_nicoll - Bundle of Holding: Inevitable
james_davis_nicoll - Five Stories About What Happens After You’ve Defeated the Big Bad
james_davis_nicoll - Touring After the Apocalypse, volume 4 by Sakae Saito
james_davis_nicoll - Young People Read Old Nebula Finalists: Mikal's Songbird by Orson Scott Card
james_davis_nicoll - Two Comments
james_davis_nicoll - Port Eternity by C J Cherryh
james_davis_nicoll - That was fast
james_davis_nicoll - Bundle of Holding: Pride Games
james_davis_nicoll - Five SFF Works About Contests and Competition
james_davis_nicoll - Clarke Award Finalists 1999
james_davis_nicoll - Stupid but true
james_davis_nicoll - Books Received, May 24 to May 30

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