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Last night I saw O'Neill's Desire under the Elms, with which I was not familiar. Even not having seen an earlier production, I could tell that this one was most likely unusual, as the set was filled with boulders and rocks--rocks hanging from the above, rocks all around, and two brothers hauling rocks as if they were animals. The house is held up by ropes above the stage and occasionally lowered onto the ground. This is not a hospitable land. It's meant to be New England in the mid nineteenth ce

My my. I went to see this musical this evening because of Delia Sherman's raves about it. And she was sooo right.

I'm going to be intentionally vague here: It's about a woman who likely had a predilection towards mental illness who is driven completely off the rails by a trauma. Although she tries over the years to cope-- with talk therapy and drug therapy--her extreme dysfunction badly affects her family. This is such an unlikely topic and theme for a musical but it works. The play treats menta

Just a little while after I discovered an email message telling me I made the final ballot, I also found the actual ballot!!!!
Thanks to everyone who nominated me and for the last YBFH (sniff)--I admit I'll be surprised if Jonathan Strahan doesn't win--it's his year.

I've just made my flight reservations to Seattle...so I'll be there win or not.


2009 Locus Award Finalists - posted at 4/27/2009 01:34:00 PM PT
The top five finalists in each category of the 2009 Locus Awards are:

Science Fiction Novel

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PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE PUBLICATION – April 26, 2009

JAMES TIPTREE JR. AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED

A gender-exploring science fiction award is presented to Patrick Ness for The Knife of Never Letting Go and Nisi Shawl for Filter House

The James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award Council (www.tiptree.org) is pleased to announce that the 2008 Tiptree Award has two winners: Patrick Ness’s young adult novel, The Knife of Never Letting Go (Walker 2008) and Nisi Shawl’s short story collection, Filter House(Aq

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Poe and Troll's Eye View

Winners of the Nebulas and the Andre Norton Award:

* Novel: Powers, Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt)
* Novella: "The Spacetime Pool," Catherine Asaro (Analog Mar '08)
* Novelette: "Pride and Prometheus," John Kessel (F&SF Jan '08)
* Short Story: "Trophy Wives," Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Fellowship Fantastic)
* Andre Norton Award: Flora's Dare, Ysabeau Wilce (Harcourt)

Congratulations to all the winners.

Editor Ellen Datlow Answers Your Questions

The Quick and the Dead, a very silly western, stupidly directed by Sam Raimi of all people--with weird shenanigans with the camera (he really must have been desperate) but with a very interesting cast--Leo Di Caprio looking like a little kid --the movie was released in 1995--and Russell Crowe also looking much younger, a gorgeous (as always) Sharon Stone, and Gene Hackman as the bad guy --who looks like...Gene Hackman. Lone woman rides into town controlled by baddie Hackman who has organized a c