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Little Brother’s World

by T. Jackson King Little Brother had survived as an orphan on the colony planet Mother’s World by following two rules. First you grabbed anything edible before the valuables. Second, you never talked to the garbage. But then the garbage–a Pube girl named Sally–talked to him. Before he knew it, he was running to escape the attention of The Church of […]

Quick Updates for 2011-06-08

@mslaurel1 The reading with @nancykress is open to the public. It's at the Kennedy School at 7pm http://is.gd/ktp46Y # RT @lightspeedmag: ATTN Writers: Lightspeed's submission queue is currently EMPTY & we're in need of good material. http://goo.gl/mwzAV # SFWA member Mary Robinette Kowal will be reading at Uncle Hugo’s SF Books in Minneapolis on Sunday. […]

Quick Updates for 2011-06-04

@diannefox @moirarogersbree SFWA has accepted electronic publication as qualifying for membership for years. # @moirarogersbree Can you point to what you are seeing in our guidelines that leads you to believe that epubs are ineligible? # @moirarogersbree Time/Warner, for example, puts out some books exclusively as epubs & we don't make a distinction. # @moirarogersbree […]

In Memoriam: Joel Rosenberg

Joel Rosenberg (b.1954) died on the evening of June 2, a day after suffering a respiratory depression that caused a heart attack, anoxic brain damage and major organ failure. Rosenberg’s first published short story was “Like the Gentle Rains” in IASFM in 1982.  A year later, he published The Sleeping Dragon, the first novel in his long-running […]

Quick Updates for 2011-05-26

Congratulations to SFWA member @RobertJSawyer whose novel WWW: WATCH won the Hal Clement Award for Best YA SF Novel. http://bit.ly/kkxK8i # SFWA member @alcole123 To commemorate Memorial Day: Wars Of The Shannons E-book for $1. http://is.gd/qKl1pO Coupon: TH82M. 'til June 1. # @aislinn_mac @USNessie Yes, that's how SFWA memberships work as well. #