Now this is a good idea. The StarShipSofa boys are going to podcast all five of the short stories on the shortlist for this year’s BSFA Awards.
The first one will appear on Monday 10th March, with one daily after that - which means they’ll all be ready well in advance of voting time at Eastercon.
So none of your “I was too busy to read ‘em” excuses*!
If you aren’t too busy to read them, here are the links:
So, who’s psyched for Eastercon, eh? 
[ * OK, to be fair, this is usually my excuse. ]
Well, what do you know - the gradual renovation of the BSFA website has seen it sprout a discussion forum at the back-end (so to speak).
There are even members-only regions, which makes it feel all nice and exclusive! This hopefully spells the end of me missing out on all the decent debates just because I don’t have an LJ account … 
Well, we might have guessed this would happen:
“Nominations were also invited for the [BSFA Award for] best non-fiction of 2007, but although a number of works were nominated there was no consensus and so no shortlist could be formed. A non-fiction award will therefore not be presented this year.”
I suppose there are a lot of ways to look at that - I’m going to take the charitable view and assume they knew that the limited number of us who care about such things would rather thrash it out for ourselves than submit to a consensus we couldn’t agree with.
In which case, ladies and gentlemen - start your engines!
[Historical note - we had a pretty good beef session chat about this last year. But if any smart-arse starts a web-based crit mag in the next five months, I'm not touching it with a bargepole.]
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UPDATE 23/01/08!! This just in from the wonderful Farah Mendlesohn - a new LiveJournal community to discuss issues non-fictional in the genre scene, lest the above occur again.
And please, LJ people, no private posts on that one. It’s hard enough for me to stay in the loop as it is!
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Managed to actually get up early enough to force coffee down my neck and head to the BSFA novel award taster reading panel … Continue reading “Eastercon Saturday: BSFA Novel Award taster reading and more”
I don’t know … you have reasonable weather (for the season) all week, then your day off arrives and it’s grey and miserable again.
Continue reading “Friday Photo Blogging! Urban gloom”
Yours truly went up to the Big Smoke last night, to attend my first BSFA monthly gathering. And a lot of fun it was too.
Continue reading “September BSFA meet - Judith Clute”
When I went up to the Arts Centre above the library where I work to attend a poetry workshop, I was completely unprepared to see *this* in a side room…
Continue reading “ZOMFG! Dead daleks!”
It’s always nice to share good news with people, on the occasions that I have some. Continue reading “Onward and upward”
I’ll freely admit to having missed the boat on this one; my excuse being that I just don’t have enough free time in my life for reading as many books as I’d like to.
Continue reading “Book Review: ‘Air’ by Geoff Ryman”
