F&SF Nov Dec 2021 cover
Tags: F&SF, Nalo HopkinsonJust received this photo of the new Nov./Dec. issue of F&SF with the cover illustration by Maurizio Manzieri for Nalo Hopkinson’s new story and could not resist posting it here:
PM Press sale: 33% off until Nov. 20
Tags: Michael Moorcock, Nalo Hopkinson, PM Press, Terry Bisson, Ursula K. Le Guin
I am not entirely sure how Michael makes the magic happen behind the scenes on Weightless but if you like me wondered just how this 33% coupon works, apparently all you need to do is add any PM Press book to your cart and, boom! It’s done.
That $8.95 copy of Nick Mamatas’s Sensation is suddenly $5.97. You add Ursula Le Guin’s The Wild Girls (because you’ve heard the interview is amazing) and suddenly you’ve saved $5.97. Ok, you realize the discount is basically 3-for-2, so the last book is sort of free. Maybe Byzantium Endures: The First Volume of the Colonel Pyat Quartet by Michael Moorcock, or Terry Bisson’s Left Left Behind?
Wait! What’s that book by Nalo Hopkinson? Report from Planet Midnight. Is it a PM book? Yes! Awesome. Or maybe your brain is more organized than mine and you already have your eye on some of their books. Either way, for a week or three, all of their books are automagically 33% off!
Year’s Bests, Nalo, new is the new new
Tags: Elizabeth Hand, gender-neutral singular pronoun, Kelly Link, Mary Rickert, Maureen F. McHugh, Nalo Hopkinson, Shirley Jackson Awards, Writers Boot CampReadercon, from the brief moment I was there, was pretty good. It was a bit discombobulating to see so many people in one place. Did not see Nalo, but did talk about her books some which is a segue, see, as, look, here’s a new one from PM Press: Report from Planet Midnight. Also this week: lots of new books from Prime Books—will Paula Guran publish more anthologies than John Joseph Adams? Surely not!
Also, Maureen F. McHugh’s After the Apocalypse, Elizabeth Hand, Kelly Link, and Mary Rickert (et al) and picked up Shirley Jackson Awards. How awesome. Sorry we weren’t at the awards ceremony. Also: Maureen (and Patricia McKillip) are Guests of Honor next year at Readercon: yay!
That’s it for this week. I am in Seattle (with Kelly) teaching Clarion West and there is time to read one more story, then sleeep! Tomorrow night we go read at the excellent University Bookstore and on Wednesday we get to meet up with Nicole Kimberling, aka, the publisher of Blind Eye Books. Yay!
ETA: Yanked this from Maureen’s twitter (from here) as it is just plain exciting:
Yo! Grammar Girl here.
I have grammar news about the word yo this week.
Yo as a Pronoun
The grammar news is that Dr. Elaine Stotko, from the School of Education at Johns Hopkins University, and her student, Margaret Troyer, have discovered that school children in Baltimore are using the slang word yo as a gender-neutral singular pronoun.