New this month: a so-long-novella-it’s-almost-a-novel from Matt Hughes, which is a pivotal story in the Guth Bandar sequence (and one of Hughes’s best to boot); a lit’ry new tale from Marta Randall; a delightful new fabrication about a fabricator from Bruce Sterling; a fantasy from Fred Chappell; a temporal tale from A.A. Attanasio; a business venture from M.K. Hobson; from David Gerrold, a companion piece to the story he sold us last month; a new Dazzle tale from Scott Bradfield; and… [drum roll] … a brilliant new story from TED CHIANG.

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Metalhead in Training

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Looks like my nephew Richard is off to a good start. Note the perfect form of the devil’s horns.

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A large blue-faced man in the audience of my SF Themes in Rock panel mentioned that there’s a death metal band called Stovokor that sings in Klingon (and dresses up as Klingons *are actually Klingons*). Their name, Stovokor, comes from the Klingon idea of an afterlife, which seems to resemble the Viking Valhalla (i.e., your station in the afterlife is in large part determined by how great a warrior you were).

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gaiman

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So, I survived Balticon. In lieu of a real con report, which I’ll probably never get around to, go see my Flickr photoset of Balticon, where you’ll see some pics with commentary by me.

[Update] My con roommate and traveling companion, Matt Kressel, posted a detailed reminiscence of Balticon here.

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I’m off to Balticon. If I’m feeling industrious, perhaps I’ll post something from the hotel. I’m told there’s free wi-fi access. If not, do expect to see a lot of photos.

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I’ll be attending Balticon this weekend. Looks like I’ll be on the following panels:

Blogging: Why, Where and How?
N.E. Lilly (m), John Joseph Adams, Paul Fischer, Tee Morris, Michael Pederson
Friday, 6 PM, Salon F

Don’t Pay Ferryman: Rock in SF&F
John Joseph Adams, Rob Balder, Adam Stemple
Saturday, Noon, Derby Room

Ask the Editors: What They Want, What Don’t Want
John Joseph Adams, Steve Eley, Douglas Fratz, Michael Pederson, Sean Wallace
Sunday, 1 PM, Derby Room

And here’s the rest of the program (in PDF format) if anyone wants to see anyone besides me at the con.

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Check out this new trailer mashup: it remixes The Ten Commandments as a hip teen comedy:

10 Things I Hate About Commandments

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Sean Melican, an editor at Ideomancer, tells me that Ideomancer’s guidelines have changed. They can be found here starting early June or, if you can’t wait to see them, you can go here and read them right now.

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Rejection Motivational Poster

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Make your own motivational poster here.

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John Langan

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Here are some pics I took at KGB this month.

John Langan and Holly Black read before an impressive crowd. The pic seen here is at the restaurant we gather at post-KGB. Plenty more in my photoset over on Flickr.

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