Hugo finals

The Hugo finalists have been announced, and I understand there are suggestions of some ballot-stuffing. As writer Daniel Abraham approximately said on facebook, it's relatively easy to stuff the ballot for the preliminaries, but not for who will actually win. That being said, I'm glad that one of my nominees made it to the finals. I'd have liked my wife's work to be on the finals, but you know what they say about snowballs in Hell.

work and pizza

You'd think that, after all of yesterday's landscaping work, I'd have easily fallen asleep last night. Instead it took me two hours, and then I had dreams about being lost. I think I'll go have a breakfast of nuked leftover pizza.

“Each in His Prison, Thinking of the Key”

“...if you believe some of the anecdotes, the guy can make a black hole in a lab or turn a piece of lint into a concussion grenade. If I could send you in there naked, I would. You’ll have two guards with you until he’s secured.”

Back in March 2010, Asimov’s published William Preston’s “Helping Them Take The Old Man Down”, about the 21st century and the last year in the life of the Old Man, his homage to Clark Savage Jr, as the authorities attacked his Fortress of Solitude. The tales that followed took us further back in time, all the way to the 1920s, to the events that started his career as a scientific adventurer. In Asimov’s March/April 2014, novella “Each in His Prison, Thinking of the Key” takes us back to the present, and is told from the point of view of a special kind of interrogator who’s been brought in because, after a few years of incarceration, nobody has been able to get anything out of the Old man’s prodigious brain.

This is going on my Hugo nomination list next year.