I will be offline from tomorrow (Thursday) morning through till Monday night. I won’t be accessing emails, checking blog comments, blogging etc etc.  I’m taking time for some family things but will be back soon enough.  If I don’t respond to your email immediately, my apologies. I will try to catch up as quickly as I can once I’m back online.

The winners of the John W Campbell Memorial Award and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award have been announced, and I’m delighted with the winners.  Kathy Goonan’s In War Times has won the novel award. The joint winners of the Sturgeon award are “Tideline” by Elizabeth Bear and “Finisterra” by David Moles, both of which are terrific.  Very good choices, indeed.  Congratulations to all three winners and to everyone who was shortlisted!