The good folk at Interaction have announced the 2005 Hugo Award nominatees. Many congrats to K.J. Bishop, the first Australian (to my knowledge) to be nominated for the John W. Campbell Award.

We here at Coode Street know how to live dangerously. As we sit on the cusp of the release of the final Hugo ballot for this year, we’d like to bring you the 2006 Hugo Award nominees for best novel:

The Hallowed Hunt, Lois McMaster Bujold
Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman
Olympos, Dan Simmons
Accelerando, Charles Stross
Spin, Robert Charles Wilson

We can’t wait to see if we’re right, will something surprise us? We’ll have to wait for Los Angeles and next year.

Matt Cheney writes about Norman Spinrad this morning, Spinrad reluctantly admits that he is an SF luminary, and Cheney says horseshit (about something else). Go see.

My friend and co-editor writes a regular art column for Realms of Fantasy magazine. I wasn’t aware, though, that they posted the entirety of her column, and the rest of their non-fiction, online. The latest of Karen’s columns to go up is “Romancing the Book“, a piece on Tony DiTerlizzi from the June issue. You should check it out. Karen’s great at what she does, and the piece is good.

Dashing small press publisher Gavin J. Grant gives an overview of how to start a small press over at Strange Horizons. A writer and editor of no small accomplishment, Gavin is also publisher at Small Beer Press, a smart, well-run outfit that produces some amazing books. The information he gives is useful, unaffected and covers pretty much everything. The only thing that he probably doesn’t stress enough is that running a small press is for crazy people.