Absolutely over the moon about this.

If you've not read my HUGO NOMINATED book-length essay on Sandman, it remains free to all at www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-cud...

I am touched an honored by this; congratulations to all of my category-mates, and to my wife for her own nomination in the Best Series category. While I have happily held her purse at Hugo Awards past, this will be our first joint spousal appearance as nominees. See you in LA, I hope...

2026 Hugo Award, Lodestar Award, and Astounding Finalists Announced www.thehugoawards.org/2026/04/2026...

We are Hugo Finalists once again! I love doing this show with my brilliant co-hosts @cassmorriswrites.com and @natania.bsky.social, and it's always so delightful to see the work being honored in our community.

Congrats to our fellow finalists!

A great set of Hugo finalists for Best Fan Writer
Jay Brantner @tarvolon.bsky.social
Alex Brown @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social
James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social
Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social
Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social
Örjan Westin @microsff.com

Congrats!

I think it's more of the "when" - it think posts comparing the relative merits of the finalist are part of what makes the Hugo's interesting but waiting a bit is a kindness to the finalists.

There are some important things to remember in terms of Awards-shortlist day etiquette. A short thread.

Even folks I really like and respect make some blunders on this stuff.

1) Allow people to enjoy the shortlist. Avoid dismissing the finalists (whomever they are) for at least a month.

The days of the week arranged around a 7-sided polygon

I had a long think about that for no good reason and decided that the opposite of Friday is between Tuesday and Monday. Which only makes you more right.

Susan’s Salon:🌒♈️ 19-20April 2026

Welcome to Susan's Salon. This post has an open comment thread for people to discuss any topic they would like. Happy, sad, weird or just catching up with events. Yes, you can promote things in the comments if you want. The only rules are: nothing hateful and no…

That's just making me sad that the Wellington Worldcon didn't get to happen because of Covid

Still Playing Blue Prince

Technically, I "finished" the game some weeks ago i.e. I completed the objective given at the start of the game (find room 46) and inherited the manor house. You get to see the credits, but when you've got that far, you already know the game is far from finished. I won't…

Aren’t attendees really attendERS? They do the thing! They attend!

Review: Children of Strife by Adrian Tchaikovsky

This is the fourth book in the Children of Time series. As with the others, this is largely a new planet and new characters, with a new variation on the ongoing interrogation into minds and intelligence. There are recaps of key events in the future…

Susan's Salon:🌘♈️ 12-13April 2026

Let’s watch War Machine

This is about the best argument I've seen made for Satoshi's identity, but it's not at all a slam dunk smoking gun yet. The Times editorial board must be convinced though. There's a lot of risk in running something like this otherwise.

Sad, Rabid, Trump It’s a premise of this blog that there are no neat category but also that scruffy, unkempt categories are still of value. We can reject the essentialism of categories but still make use of them as a means of organising a complex world into simpler shapes, like a cartoonist constructing characters from intersecting ovals. By what was either an outcropping of deep historical forces or pure coincidence, this blog began during the Sad/Rabid Puppy campaigns for the Hugo Awards, which themselves were a minor sideshow in a broader political shift which saw Donal Trump gain extraordinary political power.

Sad, Rabid, Trump

Notably a pie barm (a meat pie sandwiched in a Bread roll) transcends this system, implying a tesseract system

Eliza Fraser - Wikipedia

Eliza Fraser en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliza_F...

What if somebody else wrote it?

I'm still thinking about Project Hail Mary. Honestly, I'm not trying to fix the book or the film, both of which I did genuinely enjoy, but once these odd niggling thoughts happen, then I write about them, and you have to read them. That's the deal. The niggling…

Post a Star Trek gif for First Contact Day
Zefram Cochrane's famous words to a non-human intelligence after it welcomes humanity into galactic society

Yes, the complete retreat from life is a fascinating aspect of that story, which really elevates it.

Susan’s Salon:🌖♈️🐣 5-6 April 2026

🐇Welcome to Susan's Salon. This post has an open comment thread for people to discuss any topic they would like. Happy, sad, weird or just catching up with events. Yes, you can promote things in the comments if you want. The only rules are: nothing hateful and no…

cover of John Chu The Subtle Art of Folding Space levels of bamboo steamers, top one filled with dumplings, middle filled with dumplings turning into planets, lower has planets, lower still a level with gears, as hands reach in from different directions with chopsticks to choose dumplings or planets against a techno background

cover of What We Are Seeking by Acclaimed Author of The Fortunate Fall Cameron Reed a white and yellow dahlia in a circle offset from a black circle, against a purple to blue gradient background

cover of The Edge of Space-Time Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie Chanda Prescod-Weinstein left half of image: black and white nested circles or ellipses left half: half-ball filled with green-to-pink gradient

Because writers shouldn't have to do all the work of #BookPromotion: I have three (3!) #Preorders dropping to my e-reader Tuesday, April 7!! #Booksky
The Subtle Art of Folding Space, @johnchu.bsky.social
What We Are Seeking, @lateonsetgirl.bsky.social
The Edge of Space-Time, @chanda.blacksky.app

It's the One Ring, Gromit and its Gone Wrong!

people usually mean OBLONG when they say RECTANGLE but they should say OBLONG if that’s what they mean, unless they are happy with me thinking they mean something that can be a square

I haven't owned a cheque book this century, but I live in a big city. Apparently, there is still some use of cheques in Australia, so perhaps that is also in more rural areas

That makes sense.

I'm not making a dig at Americans (you have enough troubles right now), but I still get a bit weirded out when Americans make references to writing cheques, like the passage of time is slightly off.

Yes, there's a whole lot to unpack there with the meaning. I didn't fill in the gap but the US idiom in the title connects with Irish emigration in its own way as well.