#scott luhrs

[berlynn-wohl]

I hope that Sammy Scott and Alison Luhrs understand and appreciate that I have ruminated on their line from Vicious and Vulgar "You write fan fiction when you're ovulating!" twelve times a year for the last ten years

[concerthopperblog]

August Burns Red: 20th Anniversary Tour

The Rapids Theatre in Niagara Falls, NY became home to metalheads everywhere on Tuesday. Hosting August Burns Red 20th Anniversary Tour, the venue prepared for an epic night. You could feel the excitement as fans piled into the historic venue built in 1921, ready for a night to remember. With friends Bleed From Within and The Devil Wears Prada, this anniversary tour was stacked with some serious hardcore talent.

Bleed From Within took the stage first. Coming all the way from Glasgow, Scotland this heavy metal band instantly riled up the crowd. The fact that this was the bands first trip to the United States made this tour extra special. The band got the circle pit instantly going with round after round of ear splitting songs and intricate riffs. Lead singer Scott Kennedy  briefly took time in-between songs to talk with the crowd and build anticipation into the next song. Fans instantly took to the bands heavily ingested sound and passion for their music. It wasn’t long before the place was erupting with crowd surfers and absolute mayhem.

The Devil Wears Prada wasted no time claiming the stage next. This metalcore band from Dayton, Ohio are no strangers to this scene. Formed in 2005 they’ve been known for their lasting impressions at shows. Playing a good mixture of older and newer songs, the band gave opportunity for everyone to participate in singing or screaming along. The bands non-stop movement throughout the show had fans wild and veteran fans could barely contain themselves. One fan in particular received special treatment from the band in the form of a copy of the setlist and guitar picks. The versatility of the bands sound makes them hard to forget and leaving you wanting more. With dark dramatic lighting, heavy rifts and powerful screams, the band set the mood for the main act up next.

Formed in 2003, August Burns Red definitely helped shaped most metalcore fans music taste. Having being nominated for two grammy’s definitely solidifies the bands insane talent. Rapids theatre settled into darkness as fans awaited the reason for this entire tour. The setup included some pretty impressive talent that mirrored the bands extremely unique and diverse sound. Risers set across the stage along with a huge platform and smoke canons made the otherwise plain stage look unrecognizable. Needless to say the overall production of lighting and sound was flawless. The connection between the crowd and the band was almost instant. Lead singer Jake Luhrs instantly drew attention from every person in the room to the front of the stage. With a setlist as long as a kids Christmas list, the bands invading talent made the whole venue shake with approval. Clean guitars and hard hitting breakdowns were popular throughout the night as fans clung and sang along to every song. The show definitely felt more like a party with the band interacting with the crowd and pushing them to their full potential. At one point, Luhrs asked the fans who had never crowd surfed to make their way up front. With a sea of fans flooding to the front of the stage, each were greeted with a fist bump and look of approval. A man in a pink tutu even made his way to the front. Throughout the night the band played a pleasing mix of earlier and newer songs in which the crowd went wild for. By the end of the night every person in the venue was dripping with sweat right alongside the band.

The 20th Anniversary Tour has just kicked off. If you haven’t snagged a ticked to a date, make sure to do so as most dates are starting to sell out! Be sure to follow ConcertHopper on our Facebook page and Instagram as well for all our latest coverage!

[nakedcomedy]

50 Worst Jokes returns as one of the most unique, rowdy, and fun comedy shows in Los Angeles. 50 of LA's top comedians, people who headline all over the country, gather at the Airliner to tell the worst joke they wrote in 2022. The night is a tribute to our collective failures and is always a great time for all! Our 5 year long traditional live show in Los Angeles will also be LIVESTREAMED for the first time ever! 

WEDNESDAY 12/28 Live at The Airliner (2419 North Broadway Los Angeles, CA 90031) and Live on Zoom! 7:30pm Doors 8pm PT Show/Livestream start TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/50-worst-jokes-tickets-496478499557

Hosted by Babs Gray, Brodie Reed, and Dave Child

Featuring:

Alison Stevenson

Amber Nelson

Andrew Orolfo

Anna Seregina

Anna Valenzuela

Ashley Ray

Bardia Salimi

Billy Wayne Davis

Brandie Posey

Brent Weinbach

Camirin Farmer

Casey Ley

Chris Thayer

Christina Catherine Martinez

Christine Medrano

Collin Baker

Daniel Rugg Webb

David Venhuizen

Emily Faye

Erin Lampart

Ify Nwadiwe

Jake Kroeger

James Fritz

Jeena Bloom

Joann Schinderle

Kat Toledo

Katrina Davis

Kiran Deol

Lindsay Adams

Lisa Chanoux

Maggie Maye

Margo Bateman

Matt Champagne

Max & Nicky Weinbach

Max Beasley

Megan Gailey

MK Paulsen

Monique Moreau

Nick Naney

Pallavi Gunalan

Paul Danke

Rachele Friedland

Scott Luhrs

Solomon Georgio

Tamra Brown

Tashi Condelee

Tess Barker

The Puterbaugh Sisters

Theresa Bateman

Virginia Jones

Zach Noe Towers & MORE!

For those attending our live show at the Airliner:

This show is UPSTAIRS and INDOORS. (No elevator)

There is an outdoor patio at the venue

Please bring a photo ID matching the name the tickets were purchased under.

Please be prepared to show your proof of vaccination for entrance to the show.

We are encouraging masking and ask if you are feeling any Covid symptoms to PLEASE stay home!

No need to bring printed ticket

Street parking is available but ride share/public transportation is encouraged.

For those attending the livestream:

Check your email for a SEPARATE confirmation email with the private livestream link, this email will be sent 12hours before the show as well as 2hours and 1minute before the show.

This will be a one time only livestream, there will be no archived version available

Show will begin between 8-9pm, aiming for 8:30pm. The Zoom will be opened by 8:30pm latest. Please be patient as this is a large show to manage so start time may be delayed.

Any inappropriate behavior will result in immediate removal from the livestream

There will be no refunds unless the show is cancelled by the host

See you there!

[hooptrition]

Patty Mills brings it back home

“Who would've thought?” The text message on her phone finished with four words that sent Rebecca Kelley wandering off down a memory trail that dated back to the year 2000.

As assistant coach for the Canberra Under 14 boys team in that year, she had been part of the team's season that culminated with a trip to Townsville in far north Queensland for the Australian Club Championships. And it was her mum Di, having been that team's manager, who was now texting the question that had to be asked, as the baby of that long forgotten team, Patty Mills, prepared to return home with the NBA Championship trophy.

In all the wonderful hoopla that accompanied Patty's return to Canberra, including the awarding of the Keys to the City, the story behind the story and the lessons it may hold still lies in wait, to hopefully be applied to and appreciated by following generations of youngsters and their parents.

Kelley, now a deputy director in Canberra's governmental machine and a mum to her own growing family, remembers a tiny youngster who was already moving to a different beat.

“He was the first kid I'd ever seen wearing headphones as he wandered around and naturally I had to ask him just what he was listening to. He gave me a listen and I have to say that the rap I heard from Eminem really wasn't my thing and in fact wasn't really something that most kids in Canberra were even aware existed at that time,” she explained.

Despite being the youngest and smallest and not having much of playing role at that national tournament, Patty was the central team motivator and energy creator for the group, revealing for the first time possibly the origins of his world famous towel waving antics years later in San Antonio for the Spurs.

“On the team bus he'd be standing up, singing and carrying on and more often than not would have the whole team standing up rapping and dancing along. Here was the baby of the team who wasn't playing much and yet he had a unique rapport with all the kids, on the bench he was constantly animated and vocal and at training he was going the whole time.

“You wouldn't have thought back then he was a kid going places. He was good but he wasn't outstanding, but who knew what was ahead?”

Kelley's last honest reflection is part of a larger question that has produced an incalculable amount of literature and theorising about just what is talent, whether it's mostly down to nature or nurture and what exactly are the things we should be looking for that might indicate a tiny 11 year-old might one day scale the basketball world?

By the next year Patty had started to blossom on the court and at an Under 14 tournament hosted by key regional rivals the Illawarra Hawks, he began a rivalry with Hawks star forward Daniel Jackson that would track all the way to the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) and Australian Junior teams.

Brad Luhrs who has a been a seemingly constant figure over the past fifteen years in Canberra junior basketball was Patty's coach at that event for the first time.

“You could tell he was a clear standout at that level then,” Luhrs said, “as was Jackson for Illawarra, though he was way taller and bigger.”

“Patty was quick and he had great ball handling skills but if you'd asked me then, I would have thought the other kids would eventually catch up or that he'd slow down.”

Within a couple of years Patty was the point guard general for Canberra's Under 16 State team and had begun to draw the interest of national talent identification coaches who were part of the now disbanded Intensive Training Centre (ITC) across the country.

Naturally Patty had also attracted the attention of other sports, and as well as setting and still holding almost every junior record at Woden Little Athletics club, he dabbled in Australian Rules football alongside his basketball.

Jason Denley was Patty's coach for the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) team that contested the Under 16 National Championships in 2003, Patty still being 14 at the time due to his very unGladwellian August birthdate.

“He was small, incredibly fast and utterly fearless and for a kid with such athletic talent and I was most surprised by his lack of ego,” Denley said. “He never complained to referees and somehow he seemed to be someone that his teammates and opponents both admired for the endless energy and passion he brought to every play.”

ESPN's Sports columnist Bill Simmons has long held a view that every successful franchise needs a team “Chemist” to keep everyone happy and connected and along those exact lines Patty was continuing to expand his role as the supreme on and off court motivator.

“There was a group in our large boys and girls ITC training sessions that Patty used to be one of the leaders of, and in the warm up stretching they would launch into singing that they had obviously choreographed some time before,” Luhrs remembered.

“Amazingly James Taylor's 'How sweet it is to be loved by you' is the one that sticks in my head and to hear 14 and 15 year old boys harmonising and chiming in at coordinated spots at the top of their voices might have been something other coaches wouldn't have tolerated. Somehow though that sort of comfortability as a group and self-confidence was their calling card and at the end of the day how can you not want that?”

An invitation to his first Australian Junior Camp followed soon after 2003's Under 16 Nationals and as that camp stretched across an age range from 14 to 17 Patty was once more the smallest and youngest fish in a pond that was becoming increasingly concentrated.

At the camp Patty was one of the two standouts guard prospects along with Victoria's Scott Pendlebury, who would famously eventually choose Australian rules football over basketball thus clearing the way for Patty to start on scholarship at the AIS.

Brian Goorjian was at that time the new Australian Boomers Head Coach following on from the team's disastrous qualifying loss to New Zealand that had scuttled 2002's World Championship plans and he was front and centre at that camp to see what the next generation had in store for the program.

“Within the first half hour of Goorjian arriving on the floor there was one kid that he used exclusively to demonstrate every defensive and offensive drill,” Denley recalled.

“Paaaatty get out here, delivered in a rolling Californian twang, was pretty much the chorus for the camp and despite being so young, Patty was clearly already some sort of leader by the dint of his sheer energy and joy for each task and endless clapping and hollering for anyone and anything he or the group came across.”

Interestingly, at the same time Goorjian was possibly signalling that even at that early stage Patty was going to be part of his national team plans (Patty would eventually find his way to the Beijing in 2008), an entirely different version of Aron Baynes to that which played a part in this year's Spurs triumph alongside Patty was lumbering through drills at the camp.

Shortly after that camp Patty moved in to the AIS on a full time basis but still maintained his role as the spiritual leader of the ACT junior teams he continued to play for at Junior National championships.

“My overriding memory is of his infectious energy, the talk and support that just never waned,” Luhrs recalled from his later time as ACT Under 18s Head Coach. “And this was with him as the star of the team and it was obvious that this wasn't just something he discovered when he was sitting on the bench. It was part of him.”

At the AIS Patty bought all his familiar calling cards into play as then Men's Assistant Coach Paul Gorris confirmed.

“You'd watch him play and he was super quick and talented but when you think back then about the idea of the NBA you never could have imagined it,” he said.

“I was lucky enough to also be coaching the ACT Under 20 team back then and the thing that sticks with me is just how humble he was around the group. He was our big ticket item, with everything run around him and all his team-mates knew that, yet he was always mindful of involving them. He was playing with his mates he'd been with since they were 11 or 12 and they were quite happy to defer to him as needed, but somehow he was able to keep things so that it was never about him.”

The all singing and dancing Patty was still very much in evidence in those team and Gorris' favourite memory of those teams inevitably gravitates back to the off-court feel of the group Patty inspired.

“Back the there was an unwritten rule that I'd drive the 12-seater van to the stadium for each game and everyone would sing along to whatever sort of weird music the team had selected to prepare with. Naturally it was Patty and his cousin, Luke Currie-Richardson, (now not surprisingly a dancer with the world famous Bangarra Indigenous company) who would be leading the chorus up the front of the van. Coming into Ballarat stadium with the whole bus rocking along in full voice is something I never grow tired of remembering.”

For an outsider looking in, the overriding question would have be to just how did this diminutive energiser bunny with super quicks, a solid skill package, a streaky shooting stroke (the recent improvement in which is story all of its own a certain Mr Engelland may be able to explain more fully) and seemingly unquenchable faith in the power of positive encouragement make it in arguably the world's single most challenging athletic league?

Rebecca Kelley recalled running into Patty on occasions around the AIS years after her involvement with the Under 14s.

“He was always one of those people you have touch points with and although my involvement with his basketball career was like a grain of sand on the beach, he's always remembered me and is always quick with the 'G'day Rebecca!' and a chat. I guess it's part of his personality, he's a nice guy and he's not just going to be a great athlete, he's going to be a leader in his own way like the Cathy Freeman of this generation.”

Gorris has been in regular touch with Patty since he first left for St Mary's College in 2007 and commented how much he hasn't changed despite the time away and the constant spotlight.

“He's matured and grown up a little bit from worldly experience but deep down it's still, the same Pat, still very much about the family, still very much about everyone else.” he said.

In the back end of 2011 during the NBA lockout Patty played nine games for the Melbourne Tigers before a forgettable stint in China and his rescue by the Spurs early in 2012. He was four or five in line on San Antonio's guard depth rotation then yet something about him and his approach to that situation or challenge separated him. To watch Greg Popovich's (San Antonio's Head Coach) grizzly visage turn sunny side up every time Patty and his side line support antics were mentioned in interviews during ensuing years is in itself truly amazing.

Is it possible that the natural talent of selflessness and never-ending positive energy is actually way more powerful and valuable than any analyst can put a finger on? Are the tendencies Patty displayed way back in 2000 as a 12 year-old in Townsville the sort of things talent identifiers should be more heavily factoring in?

Are team “Chemists” as Simmons like to call them, a species all to themselves that someone should be tracking or nurturing?

Fittingly Daniel Jackson, Patty's regional rival from those heady junior days has now migrated to Canberra as one of the centre-pieces of the city's semi-professional team, and trying to size up exactly how Patty has been able to do what he's done thus far, is maybe best left to him.

“I've known him since he was 12 and never heard anyone say anything but what a great guy he is...not that he's a nice enough guy or a good guy, but a great guy.” he offered, “and when that's the case there's no doubt it's easier to succeed as everyone in your team is in your corner and pulling for you to be good.”

[ivytarablair]

WOMEN SWEEP THE HUGOS, I LOVE IT

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WHAT COULD I POSSIBLY TYPE HERE??

From The Verge:  Women swept nearly every category at the 2017 Hugo Awards

by Andrew Liptak @AndrewLiptak  Aug 11, 2017, 3:31pm EDT

Here’s the full list of nominees and winners (in bold) for 2017’s Hugo Awards:

BEST NOVEL

The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin

All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

Death’s End by Cixin Liu

Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee

Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer

BEST NOVELLA

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle

The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson

Penric and the Shaman by Lois McMaster Bujold

A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson

This Census-Taker by China Miéville

BEST NOVELETTE

The Tomato Thief by Ursula Vernon

Alien Stripper Boned From Behind By The T-Rex by Stix Hiscock

The Art of Space Travel by Nina Allan

The Jewel and Her Lapidary by Fran Wilde

Touring with the Alien by Carolyn Ives Gilman

You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay by Alyssa Wong

BEST SHORT STORY

Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El-Mohtar (The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales, Saga Press)

The City Born Great by N. K. Jemisin

A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers by Alyssa Wong

Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies by Brooke Bolander

That Game We Played During the War by Carrie Vaughn

An Unimaginable Light by John C. Wright

BEST RELATED WORK

Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016 by Ursula K. Le Guin (Small Beer)

The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley

The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

Traveler of Worlds: Conversations with Robert Silverberg by Robert Silverberg and Alvaro Zinos-Amaro

The View From the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman

“The Women of Harry Potter” posts by Sarah Gailey

BEST GRAPHIC STORY

Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening, written by Marjorie Liu, illustrated by Sana Takeda

Black Panther, Volume 1: A Nation Under Our Feet, written by Ta-Nehisi Coates, illustrated by Brian Stelfreeze

Ms. Marvel, Volume 5: Super Famous, written by G. Willow Wilson, illustrated by Takeshi Miyazawa

Paper Girls, Volume 1, written by Brian K. Vaughan, illustrated by Cliff Chiang, colored by Matthew Wilson, lettered by Jared Fletcher

Saga, Volume 6, illustrated by Fiona Staples, written by Brian K. Vaughan, lettered by Fonografiks

The Vision, Volume 1: Little Worse Than A Man, written by Tom King, illustrated by Gabriel Hernandez Walta

BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION – LONGFORM

Arrival, screenplay by Eric Heisserer based on a short story by Ted Chiang, directed by Denis Villeneuve

Deadpool, screenplay by Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick, directed by Tim Miller

Ghostbusters, screenplay by Katie Dippold & Paul Feig, directed by Paul Feig

Hidden Figures, screenplay by Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi, directed by Theodore Melfi

Rogue One, screenplay by Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy, directed by Gareth Edwards

Stranger Things, season 1, created by the Duffer Brothers

BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION – SHORTFORM

The Expanse: “Leviathan Wakes,” written by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, directed by Terry McDonough

Black Mirror: “San Junipero,” written by Charlie Brooker, directed by Owen Harris

Doctor Who: “The Return of Doctor Mysterio,” written by Steven Moffat, directed by Ed Bazalgette

Game of Thrones: “Battle of the Bastards,” written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, directed by Miguel Sapochnik

Game of Thrones: “The Door,” written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, directed by Jack Bender

Splendor & Misery [album], by Clipping

BEST EDITOR – SHORTFORM

Ellen Datlow

John Joseph Adams

Neil Clarke

Jonathan Strahan

Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas

Sheila Williams

BEST EDITOR – LONGFORM

Liz Gorinsky

Vox Day

Sheila E. Gilbert

Devi Pillai

Miriam Weinberg

Navah Wolfe

BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST

Julie Dillon

Galen Dara

Chris McGrath

Victo Ngai

John Picacio

Sana Takeda

BEST SEMIPROZINE

Uncanny Magazine, edited by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, Michi Trota, Julia Rios, and podcast produced by Erika Ensign & Steven Schapansky

Beneath Ceaseless Skies, editor-in-chief and publisher Scott H. Andrews

Cirsova Heroic Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, edited by P. Alexander

GigaNotoSaurus, edited by Rashida J. Smith

Strange Horizons, edited by Niall Harrison, Catherine Krahe, Vajra Chandrasekera, Vanessa Rose Phin, Li Chua, Aishwarya Subramanian, Tim Moore, Anaea Lay, and the Strange Horizons staff

The Book Smugglers, edited by Ana Grilo and Thea James

BEST FANZINE

“Lady Business,” edited by Clare, Ira, Jodie, KJ, Renay, and Susan

“Castalia House Blog,” edited by Jeffro Johnson

“Journey Planet,” edited by James Bacon, Chris Garcia, Esther MacCallum-Stewart, Helena Nash, Errick Nunnally, Pádraig Ó Méalóid, Chuck Serface, and Erin Underwood

“nerds of a feather, flock together,” edited by The G, Vance Kotrla, and Joe Sherry

“Rocket Stack Rank,” edited by Greg Hullender and Eric Wong

“SF Bluestocking,” edited by Bridget McKinney

BEST FANCAST

Tea and Jeopardy, presented by Emma Newman with Peter Newman

The Coode Street Podcast, presented by Gary K. Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan

Ditch Diggers, presented by Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace

Fangirl Happy Hour, presented by Ana Grilo and Renay Williams

Galactic Suburbia, presented by Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce and Tansy Rayner Roberts, produced by Andrew Finch

The Rageaholic, presented by RazörFist

BEST FAN WRITER

Abigail Nussbaum

Mike Glyer

Jeffro Johnson

Natalie Luhrs

Foz Meadows

Chuck Tingle

BEST FAN ARTIST

Elizabeth Leggett

Ninni Aalto

Vesa Lehtimäki

Likhain (M. Sereno)

Spring Schoenhuth

Steve Stiles

BEST SERIES

The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold

The Craft Sequence by Max Gladstone

The Expanse by James S.A. Corey

The October Daye Books by Seanan McGuire

The Peter Grant / Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch

The Temeraire series by Naomi Novik

JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER

Ada Palmer

Sarah Gailey

J. Mulrooney

Malka Older

Laurie Penny

Kelly Robson

[westmeathlibrary]

2017 Hugo Award finalist announced

Best Novel

All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders check the library : https://goo.gl/HJ3YKu

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers check the library : https://goo.gl/oVCEIP

Death’s End by Cixin Liu  download the ebook : https://goo.gl/3YDwKM

Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee  check the library : https://goo.gl/p5eooA

The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin  check the library : https://goo.gl/TvFNpU

Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer 

Best Novella 

The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle

The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson 

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire  check the library : https://goo.gl/H4SIYd

Penric and the Shaman by Lois McMaster Bujold 

A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson

This Census-Taker by China Miéville  check the library : https://goo.gl/zqmWk6 | Download the ebook : https://goo.gl/9FCm9X

Best Novelette

Alien Stripper Boned From Behind By The T-Rex by Stix Hiscock

“The Art of Space Travel” by Nina Allan 

“The Jewel and Her Lapidary” by Fran Wilde

“The Tomato Thief” by Ursula Vernon 

“Touring with the Alien” by Carolyn Ives Gilman

“You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay” by Alyssa Wong

Best Short Story

“The City Born Great” by N. K. Jemisin

“A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers” by Alyssa Wong 

“Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies” by Brooke Bolander 

“Seasons of Glass and Iron” by Amal El-Mohtar 

“That Game We Played During the War” by Carrie Vaughn 

“An Unimaginable Light” by John C. Wright

Best Related Work

The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley

The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher check the library : https://goo.gl/yf29oF

Traveler of Worlds: Conversations with Robert Silverberg by Robert Silverberg and Alvaro Zinos-Amaro 

The View From the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman check the library : https://goo.gl/c51s8q

“The Women of Harry Potter” posts by Sarah Gaile available online : http://www.tor.com/tag/women-of-harry-potter/

Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016 by Ursula K. Le Guin (Small Beer)

Best Graphic Story

Black Panther, Volume 1: A Nation Under Our Feet, written by Ta-Nehisi Coates, illustrated by Brian Stelfreeze 

Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening, written by Marjorie Liu, illustrated by Sana Takeda  check the library : https://goo.gl/CIUaFP

Ms. Marvel, Volume 5: Super Famous, written by G. Willow Wilson, illustrated by Takeshi Miyazawa  check the library : https://goo.gl/uBYW7Q

Paper Girls, Volume 1, written by Brian K. Vaughan, illustrated by Cliff Chiang, colored by Matthew Wilson, lettered by Jared Fletcher check the library : https://goo.gl/Yzw5YD

Saga, Volume 6, illustrated by Fiona Staples, written by Brian K. Vaughan, lettered by Fonografiks  check the library : https://goo.gl/05n1hk

The Vision, Volume 1: Little Worse Than A Man, written by Tom King, illustrated by Gabriel Hernandez Walta  check the library : https://goo.gl/xDTSNm

Best Dramatic Presentation – Long Form 

Arrival, screenplay by Eric Heisserer based on a short story by Ted Chiang, directed by Denis Villeneuve

Deadpool, screenplay by Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick, directed by Tim Miller 

Ghostbusters, screenplay by Katie Dippold & Paul Feig, directed by Paul Feig 

Hidden Figures, screenplay by Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi, directed by Theodore Melfi 

Rogue One, screenplay by Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy, directed by Gareth Edwards 

Stranger Things, Season One, created by the Duffer Brothers

Best Dramatic Presentation – Short Form

Black Mirror: “San Junipero”, written by Charlie Brooker, directed by Owen Harris 

Doctor Who: “The Return of Doctor Mysterio”, written by Steven Moffat, directed by Ed Bazalgette

The Expanse: “Leviathan Wakes”, written by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, directed by Terry McDonough

Game of Thrones: “Battle of the Bastards”, written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, directed by Miguel Sapochnik

Game of Thrones: “The Door”, written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, directed by Jack Bender

Splendor & Misery [album], by Clipping 

Best Editor – Short Form

John Joseph Adams

Neil Clarke

Ellen Datlow

Jonathan Strahan

Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas

Sheila Williams

Best Editor – Long Form

Vox Day

Sheila E. Gilbert

Liz Gorinsky

Devi Pillai

Miriam Weinberg

Navah Wolfe

Best Professional Artist

Galen Dara

Julie Dillon

Chris McGrath

Victo Ngai

John Picacio

Sana Takeda

Best Semiprozine

Beneath Ceaseless Skies, editor-in-chief and publisher Scott H. Andrews

Cirsova Heroic Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, edited by P. Alexander

GigaNotoSaurus, edited by Rashida J. Smith

Strange Horizons, edited by Niall Harrison, Catherine Krahe, Vajra Chandrasekera, Vanessa Rose Phin, Li Chua, Aishwarya Subramanian, Tim Moore, Anaea Lay, and the Strange Horizons staff

Uncanny Magazine, edited by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, Michi Trota, Julia Rios, and podcast produced by Erika Ensign & Steven Schapansky

The Book Smugglers, edited by Ana Grilo and Thea James

Best Fanzine

“Castalia House Blog”, edited by Jeffro Johnson

“Journey Planet”, edited by James Bacon, Chris Garcia, Esther MacCallum-Stewart, Helena Nash, Errick Nunnally, Pádraig Ó Méalóid, Chuck Serface, and Erin Underwood

“Lady Business”, edited by Clare, Ira, Jodie, KJ, Renay, and Susan

“nerds of a feather, flock together”, edited by The G, Vance Kotrla, and Joe Sherry

“Rocket Stack Rank”, edited by Greg Hullender and Eric Wong

“SF Bluestocking”, edited by Bridget McKinney

Best Fancast 

The Coode Street Podcast, presented by Gary K. Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan

Ditch Diggers, presented by Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace

Fangirl Happy Hour, presented by Ana Grilo and Renay Williams

Galactic Suburbia, presented by Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce and Tansy Rayner Roberts, produced by Andrew Finch

The Rageaholic, presented by RazörFist

Tea and Jeopardy, presented by Emma Newman with Peter Newman

Best Fan Writer

Mike Glyer

Jeffro Johnson

Natalie Luhrs

Foz Meadows

Abigail Nussbaum

Chuck Tingle

Best Fan Artist 

Ninni Aalto

Alex Garner

Vesa Lehtimäki

Likhain (M. Sereno)

Spring Schoenhuth

Mansik Yang

Best Series 

The Craft Sequence by Max Gladstone 

The Expanse by James S.A. Corey  check the library : https://goo.gl/BPqw2h

The October Daye Books by Seanan McGuire check the library : https://goo.gl/pRAJ0l

The Peter Grant / Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch  check the library : https://goo.gl/GIdO7V

The Temeraire series by Naomi Novik  check the library : https://goo.gl/c1cOrM | Download the ebooks : https://goo.gl/eN4Zar

The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold  check the library : https://goo.gl/sHAx1C

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer

Sarah Gailey

J. Mulrooney 

Malka Older (check the library : https://goo.gl/rCgf0x)

Ada Palmer 

Laurie Penny (check the library : https://goo.gl/wx7yfm)

Kelly Robson 

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Best Novel (2078 ballots)

All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Books / Titan Books) A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers (Hodder & Stoughton / Harper Voyager US) Death’s End by Cixin Liu (Tor Books / Head of Zeus) Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris Books) The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin (Orbit Books) Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (Tor Books)

Best Novella (1410 ballots)

The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle (Tor.com Publishing) The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson (Tor.com Publishing) Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing) Penric and the Shaman by Lois McMaster Bujold (Spectrum Literary Agency) A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com Publishing) This Census-Taker by China Miéville (Del Rey / Picador)

Best Novelette (1097 ballots)

Alien Stripper Boned From Behind By The T-Rex by Stix Hiscock (self-published) “The Art of Space Travel” by Nina Allan (Tor.com, July 2016) “The Jewel and Her Lapidary” by Fran Wilde (Tor.com Publishing, May 2016) “The Tomato Thief” by Ursula Vernon (Apex Magazine, January 2016) “Touring with the Alien” by Carolyn Ives Gilman (Clarkesworld Magazine, April 2016) “You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay” by Alyssa Wong (Uncanny Magazine, May 2016)

Best Short Story (1275 ballots)

“The City Born Great” by N. K. Jemisin (Tor.com, September 2016) “A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers” by Alyssa Wong (Tor.com, March 2016) “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies” by Brooke Bolander (Uncanny Magazine, November 2016) “Seasons of Glass and Iron” by Amal El-Mohtar (The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales, Saga Press) “That Game We Played During the War” by Carrie Vaughn (Tor.com, March 2016) “An Unimaginable Light” by John C. Wright (God, Robot, Castalia House)

Best Related Work (1122 ballots)

The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley (Tor Books) The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher (Blue Rider Press) Traveler of Worlds: Conversations with Robert Silverberg by Robert Silverberg and Alvaro Zinos-Amaro (Fairwood) The View From the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman (William Morrow / Harper Collins) “The Women of Harry Potter” posts by Sarah Gailey (Tor.com) Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016 by Ursula K. Le Guin (Small Beer)

Best Graphic Story (842 ballots)

Black Panther, Volume 1: A Nation Under Our Feet, written by Ta-Nehisi Coates, illustrated by Brian Stelfreeze (Marvel) Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening, written by Marjorie Liu, illustrated by Sana Takeda (Image) Ms. Marvel, Volume 5: Super Famous, written by G. Willow Wilson, illustrated by Takeshi Miyazawa (Marvel) Paper Girls, Volume 1, written by Brian K. Vaughan, illustrated by Cliff Chiang, colored by Matthew Wilson, lettered by Jared Fletcher (Image) Saga, Volume 6, illustrated by Fiona Staples, written by Brian K. Vaughan, lettered by Fonografiks (Image) The Vision, Volume 1: Little Worse Than A Man, written by Tom King, illustrated by Gabriel Hernandez Walta (Marvel)

Best Dramatic Presentation – Long Form (1733 ballots)

Arrival, screenplay by Eric Heisserer based on a short story by Ted Chiang, directed by Denis Villeneuve (21 Laps Entertainment/FilmNation Entertainment/Lava Bear Films) Deadpool, screenplay by Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick, directed by Tim Miller (Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation/Marvel Entertainment/Kinberg Genre/The Donners’ Company/TSG Entertainment) Ghostbusters, screenplay by Katie Dippold & Paul Feig, directed by Paul Feig (Columbia Pictures/LStar Capital/Village Roadshow Pictures/Pascal Pictures/Feigco Entertainment/Ghostcorps/The Montecito Picture Company) Hidden Figures, screenplay by Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi, directed by Theodore Melfi (Fox 2000 Pictures/Chernin Entertainment/Levantine Films/TSG Entertainment) Rogue One, screenplay by Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy, directed by Gareth Edwards (Lucasfilm/Allison Shearmur Productions/Black Hangar Studios/Stereo D/Walt Disney Pictures) Stranger Things, Season One, created by the Duffer Brothers (21 Laps Entertainment/Monkey Massacre)

Best Dramatic Presentation – Short Form (1159 ballots)

Black Mirror: “San Junipero”, written by Charlie Brooker, directed by Owen Harris (House of Tomorrow) Doctor Who: “The Return of Doctor Mysterio”, written by Steven Moffat, directed by Ed Bazalgette (BBC Cymru Wales) The Expanse: “Leviathan Wakes”, written by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, directed by Terry McDonough (SyFy) Game of Thrones: “Battle of the Bastards”, written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, directed by Miguel Sapochnik (HBO) Game of Thrones: “The Door”, written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, directed by Jack Bender (HBO) Splendor & Misery [album], by Clipping (Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes)

Best Editor – Short Form (951 ballots)

John Joseph Adams Neil Clarke Ellen Datlow Jonathan Strahan Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas Sheila Williams

Best Editor – Long Form (752 ballots)

Vox Day Sheila E. Gilbert Liz Gorinsky Devi Pillai Miriam Weinberg Navah Wolfe

Best Professional Artist (817 ballots)

Galen Dara Julie Dillon Chris McGrath Victo Ngai John Picacio Sana Takeda

Best Semiprozine (857 ballots)

Beneath Ceaseless Skies, editor-in-chief and publisher Scott H. Andrews Cirsova Heroic Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, edited by P. Alexander GigaNotoSaurus, edited by Rashida J. Smith Strange Horizons, edited by Niall Harrison, Catherine Krahe, Vajra Chandrasekera, Vanessa Rose Phin, Li Chua, Aishwarya Subramanian, Tim Moore, Anaea Lay, and the Strange Horizons staff Uncanny Magazine, edited by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, Michi Trota, Julia Rios, and podcast produced by Erika Ensign & Steven Schapansky The Book Smugglers, edited by Ana Grilo and Thea James

Best Fanzine (610 ballots)

“Castalia House Blog”, edited by Jeffro Johnson “Journey Planet”, edited by James Bacon, Chris Garcia, Esther MacCallum-Stewart, Helena Nash, Errick Nunnally, Pádraig Ó Méalóid, Chuck Serface, and Erin Underwood “Lady Business”, edited by Clare, Ira, Jodie, KJ, Renay, and Susan “nerds of a feather, flock together”, edited by The G, Vance Kotrla, and Joe Sherry “Rocket Stack Rank”, edited by Greg Hullender and Eric Wong “SF Bluestocking”, edited by Bridget McKinney

Best Fancast (690 ballots)

The Coode Street Podcast, presented by Gary K. Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan Ditch Diggers, presented by Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace Fangirl Happy Hour, presented by Ana Grilo and Renay Williams Galactic Suburbia, presented by Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce and Tansy Rayner Roberts, produced by Andrew Finch The Rageaholic, presented by RazörFist Tea and Jeopardy, presented by Emma Newman with Peter Newman

Best Fan Writer (802 ballots)

Mike Glyer Jeffro Johnson Natalie Luhrs Foz Meadows Abigail Nussbaum Chuck Tingle

Best Fan Artist (528 ballots)

Ninni Aalto Alex Garner Vesa Lehtimäki Likhain (M. Sereno) Spring Schoenhuth Mansik Yang

Best Series (1393 votes)

The Craft Sequence by Max Gladstone (Tor Books) The Expanse by James S.A. Corey (Orbit US / Orbit UK) The October Daye Books by Seanan McGuire (DAW / Corsair) The Peter Grant / Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch (Gollancz / Del Rey / DAW / Subterranean) The Temeraire series by Naomi Novik (Del Rey / Harper Voyager UK) The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (937 ballots)

Sarah Gailey (1st year of eligibility) J. Mulrooney (1st year of eligibility) Malka Older (2nd year of eligibility) Ada Palmer (1st year of eligibility) Laurie Penny (2nd year of eligibility) Kelly Robson (2nd year of eligibility)

First comment: the new voting system has been at least partially successfully gamed by the Rabid Puppies. We have more work to do

2017 HUGO AWARD FINALISTS The following are image captures from the Worldcon75/Helsinki Worldcon video announcement: Text via Tor.com Best Novel (2078 ballots)

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FLEMING

Aarant, Teague Abdewahab, Khalid Abriola, Zackery Agee, Robert Al Hadeethi, Aws Anderson, Cory Anderson, Daniel Armour, D'Angelo Banakas, Terrah Beckman, Jacqueline Beuchat, Nicholas Bible, Luke Bloedorn, Bradley Boyd, Delaney Brettin, Jacob Breunig, Ross Buttrey, William Camarena, Tyler Carter, Levi Champion, Andrew Chandler, Jacob Chapman, Wilton Clanton, Joshua Cook, Joshua Cornejo, Sergio DeFacci Jr, Thomas Dietrick, Carl Donaghey, Kallen Doss, Tyler Edwards, Wade *Ellis, Scott Eslick, Victoria Fang, William Ferriter, Garrett Flynn, Mikayla Forbes, Ariel

HARVELL

Fulmer, Savannah Garrett, Austin ? Gerding, William Gibson, Tanner Gregg, Spencer Guthrie, Ethan Harris, Ambrose Hartman, Jamie Heidenescher, Johanna Huang, Linxiang Jackson, Austin ? Kabir, Nathan Kelley, Chase Kelley, Nicholas Kerr, Timothy Killian, Michael Killian, Justin Kim, Yijun Knickerbocker, Samuel Kuerschen, Cameron

Kurtis, Kyle

Lawrence, Nicole Luhrs, Isaac 

McClellan, Boone McClellan, Margot ?  Mccullough, Christian Mcgowan, Travis ? Miller, David Miller, Keanu Mills, Isabella Moore, Oliver Moore, Reeves Moran, Christopher  Moser, Harrison Neely, Austin Noffsinger, Garrett Orig, Zachary Osborne, Geneva Parish, Jeffrey

SOWELL

   Payne, Jonathan Pearson, Destiny Polka, Richard Pozzi, Joseph Punch, Joseph Ramsey, Tory Reed, Jacob Reed, Trenton Robinson, Wesley Rodgers, Jackson Rogers, Katherine Sanderson, Michael Schenk, Matthew Schrock, Austin  Seckman, Coleman  ? Sexton, Garrett Siddel, Derek Simpson, Austin Smith, Christopher   Smith, Ryan Stahl-Mirts, Sydney Taylor, Marshall Thorpe, Grant Thota, Jaideep Traxler, Jacob Trigiani, Anthony Turnbull, Katherine Valani, Zain Walker, Jerre Ann  ? Wallace, Joseph Louis Welden, Jacob   Whitehead, Carson Willeman, Peyton Williamson, Julia  Winters, Richard Xu, Xinyun Yates, Madeleine

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SCU National Alba Series #4 - The Tour of the Glens

Thistle organised race as part of the SCU Alba series.

E123 road race over 79 miles held on a challenging course in the Angus and Perthshire glens. Starting near Lintrathen reservoir and covering the Glen Isla and Mount Blair area. The finish is on the dam wall at Backwater reservoir.

Tour of the glens Strava stats for Alex Luhrs, an Elite rider with Team Ribble who was sixth on the day.

126.87km (80 miles) 
Distance 
 3:31:43 
Moving Time

Climbing 
2,178m

Average speed just over 22mph Max speed was 46mph

Avg Power 298W

22 finished with 27 packing including our Ali Merry and his brother Andrew who according to Ali "I made to many wrong decisions / tactical errors".

Other riders on the day referred to the course as 'savage' or a 'a big day'

Tour of the Glens, part of the SCU Alba series

Top ten were 1. William Corbett, Ribble Cycling, 1st Cat 2. Finn Crockett, Wheelbase Castelli MGD, 1st Cat 3. Ruari Grant, Veloclub Edinburgh, Elite 4. Richard Jones, Ribble Cycling, Elite 5. David Rowlands 6. Alex Luhrs, Ribble Cycling, Elite 7. Grant Martin, Vitus Pro Cycling, 2nd Cat 8. Ross Clark, dooleys cycles, 1st Cat 9. Richard McDonald, Bioracer-Project GO, 1st Cat 10.Neil Scott, Deeside Thistle CC, 2nd Cat

Race Organiser Angus Wilson has already said it but a massive thanks to all those club members who turned out to help and make the event a success again.

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Born and raised in Phoenix and still amazed at the changes Born and raised in Phoenix and still amazed at the changes; have shown the book to many family members and friends. The cover enabled me to see where my parents had a business on 7th street and the ares where we lived during the 50's at 17th street and Roma. Go to Amazon

Five Stars Great shoots Go to Amazon

Five Stars I ve been searching for this and it will be a part of a collection for my husband. Go to Amazon

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fascinating look at Phoenix metro area past and present Paul Scharbach (photographer) and John Akers (curator of history at the Tempe Historical Museum) have put together a remarkable collection of photographs of Phoenix "then" (late 19th, early 20th century) and "now" (the photos appear to all be 2004 or 2005). The "now" photographs are usually from approximately the same direction. The bulk of the collection is of downtown Phoenix, including key historical buildings and landmarks--the County Courthouse, state capital building, Carnegie Library, Luhr's building, Orpheum Theatre, Rosson House, Monroe School, etc. The book continues with Phoenix farther north (Central Avenue Dairy/Park Central Mall, Brophy College Preparatory, the Phoenix Indian School, Wrigley Mansion, Arizona Biltmore), goes (named for Gen. Winfield Scott, an early resident), and downtown Mesa. Go to Amazon

this is a great book. It shows Downtown locations of what they ... If you live in Phoenix, AZ, or know somebody that does, this is a great book. It shows Downtown locations of what they looked like in the 20's, vs. what they look like now. Go to Amazon

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The 75th World Science Fiction Convention (commonly known as WorldCon) is being held this weekend in Helsinki, Finland. The convention is where the annual Hugo Awards are presented, and today, the convention announced the latest recipients. This year, women almost completely swept the Hugo Awards, taking home the top prizes for literature in the science fiction community. That’s particularly notable, given how the awards have been increasingly recognizing works from female and minority creators. The trend prompted a counter-movement from two group of fans, the self-described “Sad Puppies,” and their alt-right equivalents, the “Rabid Puppies.” These groups gamed the awards and forced a slate of nominees onto the Hugo ballot in 2015, prompting widespread backlash within the wider genre community. Another award, the Dragon, faced similar issues earlier this week when several authors asked to pull their nominations over concerns about Puppy interference and the award’s integrity. This year’s sweep by female creators seems to be a strong repudiation of anti-diversity groups. 2017 also marked the year the ceremony earned its own award: a representative from the Guinness Book of World Records certified that the Hugos are the longest-running science fiction awards ever. The Best Novel Hugo went to N.K. Jemisin, for The Obelisk Gate, a novel set in the midst of a magical apocalypse. It’s also the sequel to The Fifth Season, which took home the same award last year. Her next novel, and final installment of the trilogy, The Stone Sky, is out next week. Image: Orbit Books Here’s the full list of nominees and winners (in bold) for 2017’s Hugo Awards: BEST NOVEL The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers Death’s End by Cixin Liu Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer BEST NOVELLA Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson Penric and the Shaman by Lois McMaster Bujold A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson This Census-Taker by China Miéville BEST NOVELETTE The Tomato Thief by Ursula Vernon Alien Stripper Boned From Behind By The T-Rex by Stix Hiscock The Art of Space Travel by Nina Allan The Jewel and Her Lapidary by Fran Wilde Touring with the Alien by Carolyn Ives Gilman You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay by Alyssa Wong BEST SHORT STORY Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El-Mohtar (The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales, Saga Press) The City Born Great by N. K. Jemisin A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers by Alyssa Wong Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies by Brooke Bolander That Game We Played During the War by Carrie Vaughn An Unimaginable Light by John C. Wright BEST RELATED WORK Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016 by Ursula K. Le Guin (Small Beer) The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher Traveler of Worlds: Conversations with Robert Silverberg by Robert Silverberg and Alvaro Zinos-Amaro The View From the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman “The Women of Harry Potter” posts by Sarah Gailey BEST GRAPHIC STORY Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening, written by Marjorie Liu, illustrated by Sana Takeda Black Panther, Volume 1: A Nation Under Our Feet, written by Ta-Nehisi Coates, illustrated by Brian Stelfreeze Ms. Marvel, Volume 5: Super Famous, written by G. Willow Wilson, illustrated by Takeshi Miyazawa Paper Girls, Volume 1, written by Brian K. Vaughan, illustrated by Cliff Chiang, colored by Matthew Wilson, lettered by Jared Fletcher Saga, Volume 6, illustrated by Fiona Staples, written by Brian K. Vaughan, lettered by Fonografiks The Vision, Volume 1: Little Worse Than A Man, written by Tom King, illustrated by Gabriel Hernandez Walta BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION – LONGFORM Arrival, screenplay by Eric Heisserer based on a short story by Ted Chiang, directed by Denis Villeneuve Deadpool, screenplay by Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick, directed by Tim Miller Ghostbusters, screenplay by Katie Dippold & Paul Feig, directed by Paul Feig Hidden Figures, screenplay by Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi, directed by Theodore Melfi Rogue One, screenplay by Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy, directed by Gareth Edwards Stranger Things, season 1, created by the Duffer Brothers BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION – SHORTFORM The Expanse: “Leviathan Wakes,” written by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, directed by Terry McDonough Black Mirror: “San Junipero,” written by Charlie Brooker, directed by Owen Harris Doctor Who: “The Return of Doctor Mysterio,” written by Steven Moffat, directed by Ed Bazalgette Game of Thrones: “Battle of the Bastards,” written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, directed by Miguel Sapochnik Game of Thrones: “The Door,” written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, directed by Jack Bender Splendor & Misery [album], by Clipping BEST EDITOR – SHORTFORM Ellen Datlow John Joseph Adams Neil Clarke Jonathan Strahan Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas Sheila Williams BEST EDITOR – LONGFORM Liz Gorinsky Vox Day Sheila E. Gilbert Devi Pillai Miriam Weinberg Navah Wolfe BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST Julie Dillon Galen Dara Chris McGrath Victo Ngai John Picacio Sana Takeda BEST SEMIPROZINE Uncanny Magazine, edited by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, Michi Trota, Julia Rios, and podcast produced by Erika Ensign & Steven Schapansky Beneath Ceaseless Skies, editor-in-chief and publisher Scott H. Andrews Cirsova Heroic Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, edited by P. Alexander GigaNotoSaurus, edited by Rashida J. Smith Strange Horizons, edited by Niall Harrison, Catherine Krahe, Vajra Chandrasekera, Vanessa Rose Phin, Li Chua, Aishwarya Subramanian, Tim Moore, Anaea Lay, and the Strange Horizons staff The Book Smugglers, edited by Ana Grilo and Thea James BEST FANZINE “Lady Business,” edited by Clare, Ira, Jodie, KJ, Renay, and Susan “Castalia House Blog,” edited by Jeffro Johnson “Journey Planet,” edited by James Bacon, Chris Garcia, Esther MacCallum-Stewart, Helena Nash, Errick Nunnally, Pádraig Ó Méalóid, Chuck Serface, and Erin Underwood “nerds of a feather, flock together,” edited by The G, Vance Kotrla, and Joe Sherry “Rocket Stack Rank,” edited by Greg Hullender and Eric Wong “SF Bluestocking,” edited by Bridget McKinney BEST FANCAST Tea and Jeopardy, presented by Emma Newman with Peter Newman The Coode Street Podcast, presented by Gary K. Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan Ditch Diggers, presented by Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace Fangirl Happy Hour, presented by Ana Grilo and Renay Williams Galactic Suburbia, presented by Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce and Tansy Rayner Roberts, produced by Andrew Finch The Rageaholic, presented by RazörFist BEST FAN WRITER Abigail Nussbaum Mike Glyer Jeffro Johnson Natalie Luhrs Foz Meadows Chuck Tingle BEST FAN ARTIST Elizabeth Leggett Ninni Aalto Vesa Lehtimäki Likhain (M. Sereno) Spring Schoenhuth Steve Stiles BEST SERIES The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold The Craft Sequence by Max Gladstone The Expanse by James S.A. Corey The October Daye Books by Seanan McGuire The Peter Grant / Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch The Temeraire series by Naomi Novik JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER Ada Palmer Sarah Gailey J. Mulrooney Malka Older Laurie Penny Kelly Robson

https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/11/16127310/2017-hugo-awards-n-k-jemisin-science-fiction-fantasy-books

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It's the last friday night of the month...join us in the cave for a social experiment you'll never forget. We get high. You get high. We all laugh. It's a BIRTHDAY EXTRAVAGANZA as we celebrate the births of High Brow's own Jeremy Wheat & Lydia Popovich In the cave this month... Scott Luhrs Sean Keane

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Butch Escobar and more! With jokes from your regular High Browsers... Land Smith Lydia Popovich GET A TICKET. BRING YOUR VAPE. LET'S PARTY

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Needles are my favorite. There's a part of me to this day that yearns a little bit just to—obviously to do drugs, there's still that part of me—but I also want to just want one day to suck out some blood and start spraying it on people. Just like, if someone starts fucking with me, be like 'Yeah, but you've never been attacked in this weird way.'

Respect the Danger of Knives. RTDOK #230 Matt Lieb. iTunes. Download. 

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