We interrupt your regularly scheduled con coverage, because I’ve been in the news again, for Alexandra Penth interviewed me for the Weser-Kurier about my Hugo nomination as part of the Galactic Journey team. You can read the article here. I also really love the photo of me in my Foundation t-shirt, posing with the 2022 Best Fan Writer Hugo.
And here is what the article looks like in the actual paper:
Yes, I made the front page above the fold. Of course, it’s only the front page of the regional supplement for Stuhr, Weyhe and Diepholz county, but it is still the front page.
And while on the subject of Galactic Journey, I forgot to link to my latest article where I review the 1970 science fiction novel (well, it’s more of a fix-up actually) A Circus of Hells by Poul Anderson. It’s a Dominic Flandry novel, entertaining but also rather dated.
In the early years of my science fiction reading journey, I read a lot of Poul Anderson and a lot of Dominic Flandry, because Anderson was very prolific and the spinner rack at my local import bookstore always carried at least one book by him.
But then I discovered Lois McMaster Bujold and read The Warrior’s Apprentice almost directly after a Flandry novel, which might have been A Circus of Hells (I own it and definitely read it) and Bujold told a similar story – spy action and intrigue in space – so much better than Anderson ever did.
What is more, the winners of the 2024 Nebula Awards were announced while I was at the Los Amigos con. I’m not sure if I’ll do my usual commentary post on the winners this year, but I’m overall satisfied with the Nebula winners and think they are great choices.
The next instalment of my epic Los Amigos con report should come out soon, hopefully tomorrow, so stay tuned.
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Congrats on the above-the-fold!
Thank you.
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