Sci fi news - Weekly roundup
So there has been a fair amount of announcements this week. Some intriguing, others a bit weird. Firstly, the Locus finalists have been announced : A fairly solid line up of authors in the novel category: The Water Knife, Paolo Bacigalupi Ancillary Mercy, Ann Leckie Aurora, Kim Stanley Robinson Seveneves, Neal Stephenson A Borrowed Man, Gene Wolfe I haven't read any of these novels, so I'll withhold my judgement, but reviews for these books have been all been great. In other news SF Signal shuts down for good. SF Signal is a Hugo award winning blog and one of my weekly 'go-to' reads. The owner/editors of the blog announced they are shutting down the site on Thursday for family reasons. This week I also got to learn the name Chuck Tingle when the Sad/Rabid Puppies Hugo award slate back-fire d with hilarious results, - If you haven't heard about the sad/rabid puppies then good for you. For the rest of us bysta...