"Coyote Frontier"

"The days were getting warmer, yet she felt winter closing upon her. Not so long ago, she'd been Zephyr's age. Now her hair was stone-grey, her bones as brittle as cheap ceramic, and almost all the people who were the subjects of her lectures had passed away long ago. Suddenly, another trimester was finished, and once again she found herself wondering if she'd be around for the beginning of the next one."

Yesterday I finished Allen Steele's "Coyote Frontier", which marked the end of his trilogy about the planet Coyote. There are other related stories out there, and they are on my read-this-soon list.

acceptance for the black ice

Sue received Tor Books's acceptance money for the manuscript of "Black Ice", the sequel to her fantasy novel "Mist". Yay.