Yay! Andrew Tisbert’s story, “The Meteor of the War,” is a finalist in the 2006 Sidewise Awards. Nothing says “alternate history” like a time-travelling Black Muslim helping John Brown attack Harper’s Ferry. With elephants. War elephants. Congratulations, Andrew!

…but tonight our very own Anthony Robinson will be on Survivor.

No. Really.

This coming Thanksgiving weekend is Loscon, the Los Angeles Regional Science Fiction Convention, held at the LAX Marriott on Century Blvd, and the Fictionados will be running a Spontaneous Writers Workshop panel Saturday from 1:30 to 4:30. This workshop is a quick critique session to show writers who have not been working with a group or doing workshops just what to expect if they suddenly find themselves kidnapped by a group of genre writers, in addition to providing some constructive feedback. If you are interested, and are going to be at Loscon, bring a page to read aloud (that would be a standard format manuscript page, so no more than 250 words, please), and the panel will offer quick crit and get some audience feedback. There will be a first-come, first-served sign up sheet at the panel (which is a double-length, 3-hour session) as we expect to get more people with pages to critique than we can fit in to the time slot. More information about Loscon can be had at http://www.loscon.org.

Head on over to Meme Therapy to read Jason’s answer to this: Has reading and writing SF changed your world view? And if so how? Then you can see what Hal Duncan, Nick DiChario, Sean Williams, Janet D. Stemwedel and Kristine Smith have to say.