Ellen Datlow's Blog, page 77

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2009 Hugo award

The Cat Piano
Thanks to Jonathan Carroll

Now that I've finished Pushing Daisies (which I will re-watch at some point when I receive the second season as my promised Xmas gift from friends this year) I've been watching the third season of Dexter-the first two discs (7 episodes, I think) Friday and and last night. I find it interesting as Dexter works out his own code of ethics, which are evolving from what his father Harry taught him. And there's some very moving stuff in this season.

Also, I saw Al Pacino as John Milton (aka Satan) ...

A four week old baby panda gets its first check-up at the San Diego Zoo where it was born baby's first check-up

via Jezebel

These transparent glass sculptures of pathogenic viruses were created to contemplate the global impact of each disease and to consider how the doctoring of scientific imagery affects our visualisation of phenomena. This according to Luke Jerram, the artist (who is, by the way, colorblind), is how the viruses actually look, although they're usually colorized when depicted.
Viral Sculptures


There's an example on display at the Wellcome Collection in London and he has a solo show at the Smithfi...

Author Dave Freer is emigrating from South Africa to Australia. One wrinkle, though, is that his furry sidekicks cannot make the journey without a rather huge layout of cash on Dave's part (a large part is that they will all have to be quarantined for six months).

To raise funds, he is posting Chapters of Save the Dragons here.

If you feel like making a donation, please click on it and help him out. The alternative is to abandon some furry friends, many of which came from shelters to ...

Don't forget that if you want to vote on November 3rd, you have to apply for an absentee ballot. Easy enough to do in NYC: you just print out the pdf file here

I do this every year either September or October and it's always a lot of fun. I answer questions, if I have some books with me I'll sell them, and we all go out for lunch afterward. It's free.

Ellen Datlow will discuss "The Impact of the Economy on The Current Editing Climate" at the next Garden State Horror Writers (GSHW) meeting at the Monmouth County Library, 125 Symmes Dr. in Manalapan, NJ on Saturday, September 12. The business meeting starts at 11 a.m., followed by the guest speaker at noo

Hip hip hooray!! And they got exactly what I was going for.

Lovecraft Unbound Edited by Ellen Datlow. Dark Horse, $19.95 paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-59582-146-1

The 16 new and four reprint stories Datlow (Poe) assembles for this outstanding tribute anthology all capture what Dale Bailey praises as horror master H.P. Lovecraft's gift for depicting the universe as "inconceivably more vast, strange, and terrifying than mere human beings can possibly imagine." Bailey and Nathan Ballingrud, in "The Crevass

I'll be back teaching Clarion West a year earlier than normal (I'm usually asked to teach every five years, but this time it's going to be only four) along with Michael Bishop, Maureen McHugh, Nnedi Okorafor, Graham Joyce, and Ian McDonald. I'll be there the fifth week.