Best Novel A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; Hodderscape) Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor (William Morrow; Gollancz) Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US) The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow (Tor US; Tor UK) The Incandescent by Emily Tesh (Tor US; Orbit UK) The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson (Orbit US; Hodderscape) 1,153 ballots cast for 555 nominees. Finalists range 126-210.

Best Novel
A Drop of Corruption by @robertjbennett.bsky.social (Del Rey; Hodderscape)

Death of the Author by @nnedi.bsky.social (William Morrow; Gollancz)

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Congratulations to all the Finalists! And thank you @laworldcon.bsky.social Team for all the hard work!

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Noooo are some of the posts disappearing or is it my browser being weird?

So ready!!!

It's still Schrödinger's Hugo right now.

Just 23 minutes hence, we'll open the box and let you know how the cat is doing.

Reform Section 702 There are no excuses for any Member of Congress to support a clean reauthorization of Section 702. Anyone who votes to do so does not take your privacy seriously. Full stop. Section 702 of the Foreign...

We Need You: Our Privacy Cannot Afford a Clean Extension of Section 702.

I guarantee you they are trying to normalize the things coming out about powerful Americans in the Epstein files.

Mt Sinai clinical trial of Lumbrokinase is now offering a decentralized option so you can participate from home, for #LongCovid #LymeDisease #MECFS #pasc h/t @thesicktimes.org clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT065...
I'm not stable again yet after leaving LoCITT so not joining this one myself

If your books are in the Anthropic copyright settlement...don't be this guy.

Yes, a crappy gift card is the expectation in many class action settlements, but not this time: per work payout is at least $3,000, & may be higher.

If you don't file, you get nothing. Deadline is 3/30. File today.

This is seriously fucked up.

Good God.

Happy St Patrick's Day. Holy shit.

1 - All of y'all. Yes, including you. ESPECIALLY you!
2 - Nice cool front, with sunshine
3 - These silly guys: youtube.com/shorts/RxnqK...

And I am lucky! I am getting care. And had the means to travel across the country for care, sick as the travel made me.

If there are any other Long Covid clinics in Houston, I am unaware of them. Fourth largest metropolitan area in the country. Millions of people, even by lowest estimates of LC in population, there have to be hundreds of thousands of us here. 7/7. #MECFS #PACS #LongCOVID

In Jan 2026, BCM rescheduled me from April 2026 to FEB 2027. Reason given "Dr [] is out, and we have very few Providers for this Clinic, I have you on our wait list." Their web site still exists, so hopefully their clinic is still running. 6/

At the same time I booked UTHH LCC, I booked at Baylor College of Medicine's Post Covid Care Clinic, just in case, since I knew clinics were closing everywhere.. 9 month wait. Appointment in April 2026. Kept it on the books just in case UT falls through. 5/

A few weeks after my first appointment at UT Health Houston LCC, that long covid clinic closed down, doctors returned to their original department, losing all their experienced long covid support staff. My doc continues to see existing patients - I am lucky! 4/

...to find out what new treatments were available. I followed up at 1 year and was told "The Post-COVID Care Clinic has transitioned out of its area and is no longer able to offer follow-up visits." Referred to UT Health Houston long covid clinic. Only 2 month wait due to a cancellation! 3/

...Got in to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester after several months' wait in 2024. Consultation clinic only - they worked me up, provided several remote education sessions after I was home, provided a dense 16 page report of things to try for my PCP. Said I could follow up with them annually... 2/

A researcher found that only 30 out of 400 clinics offering #LongCOVID care in the US responded to multiple attempts to contact them to ascertain whether they still provide Long COVID care. Reported in @thesicktimes.org at clinics.thesicktimes.org

My experience has been... 1/

"What are the experiences of people of color in the publishing industry?"

arleysorg.com/by-the-numbe...

Trout Fishing In America House Concert - Driving Through The Driving Rain YouTube video by spongebobgl1800

Trout Fishing in America, Drivin' Rain: youtu.be/89WnKKDSkj4?...

Summer Glau's was posted to Nathan Fillion's Instagram on Monday. And I'm personally hoping they'll acknowledge that the movie doesn't exist!

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

Hyperion helped break me of my young-person insistence that I had to finish every book I started, no matter how much I hated it.

I am so sorry for your loss. I do not know, but am following so I can add the charity/ies to my list.

Like I said, all I was doing was answering your question what was meant by 'smaller generation.' Not defending crappy people in my generation, of which there are many. It could also be argued that Millennials NOT voting bears some responsibility for the outcome.

Not agreeing with tiny&boxed in, not agreeing with Trump support. We're a smaller generation because fewer of us were born than in surrounding generations: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Always nice when someone extends their sincere.