One of the most irritating things about being ill, other than, well, being ill, is that after a few days slumped out at home, I seem to lose the ability to sleep. Which is why I'm doing a journal entry at 5 o'clock on Saturday morning.

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In other blogs:

An interesting discussion of gender balance in the genre in Meg McCarron's blog.

The ED SF Project is starting to pile up appreciations of Sci Fiction stories. Go and read them.

Christopher Rowe discovers The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana.

Tim Pratt is struggling with boring protagonists (a familiar problem for me). I like his take on it.

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We've been listening to Ellen Kushner's radio program, Sound and Spirit. Very cool stuff.

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It's too early. I'm tired.