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Prix Aurora Awards
The shortlist for the Prix Aurora Awards have been announced. BEST NOVEL IN ENGLISH : THE AMULET OF AMON-RA, by Leslie Carmichael, CBAY Books DRUIDS, by Barbara Galler-Smith and Josh Langston, Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy WAKE, Robert J. Sawyer, Penguin Canada STEEL WHISPERS, Hayden Trenholm, Bundoran Press TERRA INSEGURA, Edward Willett, DAW Books BEST SHORT-FORM WORK IN ENGLISH: “PAWNS DREAMING OF ROSES”, Eileen Bell, Women of the Apocalypse. Absolute Xpress “HERE THERE BE MONSTERS” Brad Carson, Ages of Wonder, (DAW) “LITTLE DEATHS” Ivan Dorin, Tesseracts Thirteen “RADIO NOWHERE” Douglas Smith, Campus Chills “THE WORLD MORE FULL OF WEEPING” Robert J. Wiersema, ChiZine Publications BEST WORK IN ENGLISH (OTHER) :…
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Cars vs Trucks
With two young boys I watch a lot of movies. One particular favorite of theirs is the 2006 Pixar film, ‘Cars’. I enjoyed the movie the first few times but now when I watch it I do find that my mind tends to wander. I often wonder, for example, what has happened to all the humans. It was probably the 100th viewing that I finally noticed the connection between Cars and the Stephen King short story ‘Trucks’ (which became the movie Maximum Overdrive). If you haven’t watched Cars the basic premise is that vehicles (cars, trucks, whatnot) rule Earth. There are no humans, just animate vehicles. In Maximum Overdrive there…
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Word Progress so Far
Since the beginning of the year I’ve set myself some firm word count goals and to my delight I’ve been able to meet and often exceed them. I took a quick look at my tracking and I’ve now written over 75 000 words since January. The bulk of this has been on the novel but I’ve (almost) finished a 12 000 word sci-fi story and the rough draft of a flash story. If I can keep this pace I should be able to finish the rough draft of the first novel by the end of March and start on the second novel in April. Of course today I’m derailed from…
