The website of fiction/non-fiction author Colin Harvey
This morning’s blog is a straight list of the 2009 Nebula Award finalists. However, I couldn’t resist posting links to the stories I trumpeted when they first came out, which makes me look profoundly perspicacious. Of course, that ignores the finalists I initially rubbished, as well as all the other stories I backed which never made the final… 
Today’s blog is in appreciation of those splendid chaps and chappesses at the BSFA.
I’m happy for Mary Robinette Kowal, whose marvellous ‘Evil Robot Monkey’ is now on the Hugo ballot for Best Short Story, and deservedly so, and Aliette de Bodard, nominated for the John W. Campbell award for Best New Writer. Equally deserving.
But sad for my friend Ted Kosmatka, who wrote the wonderful ‘Divining Light’ and ‘The Art of Alchemy’ and hasn’t seen either of them get the appreciation that they deserve, and James Moran, whose ‘The Fires of Pompeii’ is IMHO the best ever Doctor Who episode.
Oh well, I’m sure that their reward will come in time.
I’ve posted a new blog over at MySpace on work, sport as the weather. Feel free to swing by.
As well as writing short stories and novels, I also review several of the major magazines such as Asimov’s and Interzone for Suite101. I’ve just posted a review of the April-May issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction. The link is here – feel free to stop by and take a look.
More later.
Colin
