The nice folk over at the UK SF Book News Network have done a short interview with me about The Jack Vance Treasury. It’s due out in January, which means we should be seeing final copies very soon. I’ve also pretty much done the last things (except a final proofread) for Ascendancies: The Best of Bruce Sterling. I’ve seen a cover rough for the book, and expect galleys in a few months. The book is due out in August 2007, which is cool. I’ll have a few things out ’round then.

Pfeh on this year. Pfeh pfeh on having a virus at Christmas. I hope you and all of yours are having, will have, are about to have, or had a wonderful, wonderful Christmas and a very happy New Year.

The word from far north Queensland is that the nominees for most of the Aurealis Awards have been announced. To my great delight, six of the stories from Eidolon have been shortlisted for the Awards. Congratulations to all of the nominees, and especially to Eidolon’s authors. A special extra shout out to Shaun Tan, who managed to get nominated for best short story with a work that features no words!

Say it isn’t so….

Terry Dowling gives Margo Lanagan’s Red Spikes a good review in The Weekend Australian.