Worldcon, and a Hugo
I'm back from the world science fiction convention in Glasgow (and from AramadilloCon, in Austin, Texas). I'd like to thank everyone who voted for my work in the Hugo awards; thank you! (In case you missed the news, "The Concrete Jungle" picked up a Hugo for best novella – it'll be published in trade paperback as part of "The Atrocity Archives" by Penguin US next January 3rd.)
On a more whimsical note:
I sometimes collaborate with sometime Campbell Award winner, EFF activist, and all-around happening guy Cory Doctorow. Cory is a big noise in campaigning for consumer rights against the big copyright cartels, and he comes up with an idea a minute and gives them away for free under creative commons a license. Yet he sure as hell wasn't the model for Manfred in "Accelerando" (because I hadn't met him at the time), and nobody told the art director at Orbit to stick him on the cover of my book. Still, judge for yourself:
