Other Change of Hobbit

Congrats to winners of the 2020 Mythopoeic Awards, just announced having been delayed by Covid-19 concerns. http://www.mythsoc.org/awards/awards-2020.htm

In a sane society, Emily Devenport's medical bills would not be an issue. But here she is, without health insurance as too many of our writers are. If you've enjoyed the books of hers that we sold you in years past, perhaps you can afford to contribute to her emergency medical bill gofundme. Thanks.

Wow! Of course this doesn't settle the debate of whether Left Hand of Darkness, Wizard of Earthsea, or The Dispossessed best represents her work ... https://www.facebook.com/jeanne.gomoll/posts/10225234651192872

Saddened to read that another of our elder giants has left, but has left us with a legacy of great sf novels ... and the invaluable Road to Science Fiction anthology series. A scholar and a gentleman indeed.

One of the great space (and science fiction) artists, Chesley Bonestell, is the subject of a new documentary now released on Amazon Prime Video. Yeah, I know.

Gail Carriger explains punctuation for you!

A long, and as expected thoughtful, look back by Philip Pullman at a quarter of a century of Lyra and company. "Sometimes categories like children’s book seem like the idea of species in the era before Darwin: divisions that are fixed, essential, ordained by God. But labels such as true crime, biography, fiction in translation, children’s books, travel, mind body and spirit and so on are there to help publicists, booksellers, librarians, marketing researchers, literary editors, and (ultimately) accountants. They were not developed to help writers." https://www.theguardian.com//25-years-of-his-dark-material

Congrats to new MacArthur genius N.K. Jemisin!

Follow the logic, there's sf&f hiding here

Congrats to this year's Hugo Award winners, announced virtually today from halfway around the globe: http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2020-hugo-awards/

Sadly familiar tale: another longtime Berkeley specialized bookstore throws in the towel https://www.facebook.com/264579842455/posts/10158572742882456/?d=n

an official gofundme to save (rebuild) Uncle Hugo's and Uncle Edgar's. y'all know what to do.

Good news: DreamHaven Books and Comics survived the night thanks to neighbors’ efforts

Apparently we have lost Uncle Hugo’s and Uncle Edgar’s bookstores to riot-related fire in Minneapolis. They had just reopened for limited covid19 access on the 18th and had Lois McMaster Bujold in last week to sign her new Baen Book.

Borderlands Books in SF is back to fulfilling mail orders. They have a link in their blogpost to their inventory. https://borderlands-books.blogspot.com//borderlands-open-f

Yet another reason to miss Sir Terry. Well, we still have his books, satire and all.

One of our favorite magical realist writers, Ann Patchett, on running her co-owned bookstore during the current plague lockdown https://www.theguardian.com//ann-patchett-nashville-booksh

This year's Philip K. Dick Award ceremony will be webcast Friday, April 10th at 7 p.m. PST via YouTube: https://www.norwescon.org/con/p-k-dick-award/