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Taste of Home Grand Prize Winners
by Catherine Cassidy (Editor)

Today we finished our tenth cookbook of the year. The front matter includes a table of contents and information about contests. The recipe chapters are Appetizers; Salads, Sides & Such; Soups & Stews; Main Dishes (Beef, Poultry, Pork, Seafood & Meatless); Casseroles; Breads & Rolls; Breakfast & Brunch; Cookies, Bars & Candies; Cakes & Pies; and Just Desserts. There is also an index, divided into an ingredient section and an alphabetical list of titles.

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Cloak of Worlds by Jonathan Moeller

The adventures of Nadia continue.

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Generic Asian Man Willis Wu dreams of becoming Kung Fu Guy. If he's not careful, he might become Dead Asian Guy instead.

Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu

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Worldcon in Memoriam reports:
"Author Jane Yolen (b.1939) died on June 11. She wrote books and novels for all ages, including Briar Rose, How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?, and The Devil’s Arithmetic. Yolen won 2 Nebulas, a World Fantasy and was named Grand Master by SFPA, SFWA and World Fantasy. She served as SFWA President."

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Surely, issues like traffic jams, speeding, and road rage can be solved through these creative strategies...

Safer Driving Through Science Fiction

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I'll go though it, bit by bit, in the first comment, but you might want to experience it cold.

CW for just about everything except animal abuse since there are no animals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8AsxmLnoic&t=8s

Quite well read, 4 parts, about 3 i/2 hours.

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Ada Palmer & Jo Walton converse about Science Fiction and Fantasy.

Trace Elements: Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction and Fantasy by Ada Palmer & Jo Walton

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Jump-start your tabletop fantasy roleplaying campaign with the hundreds of pages of system-neutral tools and tables in this all-new Dungeononomicon Bundle from Raging Swan Press.

Bundle of Holding: Dungeononomicon

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Two things stand between Kim Wooram and victory: rival contestants and institutional misogyny so entrenched women aren't allowed to compete at all. For the first, Wooram has exemplary skills. For the second, a cunning plan.

Project V by Park Seolyeon

james_davis_nicoll

If so, would anyone like to be me for the purposes of accepting the Hugo should I win?

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Ship's gunner Ejoq Dosantos waives prudence for one quick off-ship errand that proves neither quick, nor easy, and quite possibly not survivable.

Street Candles (Stardrifter, volume 2) by David Collins-Rivera

james_davis_nicoll

After a long career of publishing gorgeous limited editions, collections, art books, and novellas, publisher Bill Schafer has shared the news that Subterranean Press will be permanently closing in the coming years.

labingi

Hm, my attempt to embed this came through as a link. Well, if you feel inclined to click the link, you'll see photos and everything!

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A quarter century ago, I wrote my very first paid SF review. The book wasn't great but I got paid to read it!

The Precipice (Asteroid Wars) by Ben Bova

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Digital science fiction and fantasy graphic albums from comics publisher Top Cow Productions.

Bundle of Holding: Top Cow

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I have a review category called Talking to the Sun". Created in Jan 2026. Two reviews. No documentation. I can't work out what the common element was.

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The Young People discuss Leiber's take on sword and sorcery.

Young People Read Old Science Fiction Stories Edited By Cele Goldsmith: Fritz Leiber’s 1959 Lean Times in Lankhmar

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What an unusual design.

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Scoundrel “Slippery Jim” DiGriz AKA the Stainless Steel Rat, so cunning he has two criminal nicknames, has never been outwitted, outmanoeuvred, captured or executed.

Until now.

The Stainless Steel Rat (The Stainless Steel Rat, volume 1) by Harry Harrison

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Between the "30 days of Blake's 7" meme I was doing on DreamWidth and the subsequent outbreak of fanfic (currently about 10,000 words and end in sight), I have been somewhat immersed in Blake's 7 even before I went to do a bit of research on Hermit for said fanfic this morning and wandered off into the con reports. This probably explains why when I went to Co-Op this afternoon and their in-house radio started playing The Beautiful South's "Don't marry her, have me", I was immediately taken back to the first time I heard that song - as a Blake's 7 filk at Redemption 99. It was very funny then, and having just looked it up on the con reports page it's still funny now.

I've been feeling rather melancholy the last few weeks. February or March marked 30 years since I went to my first con. It was Neutral Zone in Newcastle, a multimedia con by the local Star Trek fan group, and I went because Gareth Thomas was a guest. I had a lot of fun, so I went to another one, the first Discworld con. And then the last Who's 7, and since then I've gone to at least one con every year.

I wrote B7 con reports and theatre trip reports back then. _Detailed_ reports. And I'm so glad I did, because although I wrote them for other fans who couldn't be there, now they're for me. 20, 25, 30 years on, I can read them and be taken back to that time when we were all young. All the people I met and made friends with.

Fannish networks change and we lose contact. We move on, from Usenet and mailing lists to LiveJournal and Twitter, and Tumbler, to other fandoms, and, and... People drift away, and sadly some of them have died now. It's ten years since Gareth died, eleven since we lost Pterry. But I still have online links with so many of those friends of long ago, and if there is ever another Redemption I will be there.

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Review: Taste of Home Grand Prize Winners

Cloak of Worlds

Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu

Jane Yolen (1939 - 2026)

Safer Driving Through Science Fiction

"A Momentary Taste of Being", bleak and brillian

Trace Elements by Ada Palmer & Jo Walton

Bundle of Holding: Dungeononomicon

Project V by Park Seolyeon

Is anyone here already planning on being at this year's Worldcon?

Street Candles (Stardrifter, volume 2) by David Collins-Rivera

Fuck

Reflecting on Place and Climate Grief

Happy 25th

Bundle of Holding: Top Cow

Huh

Young People Read Old Science Fiction Stories Edited By Cele Goldsmith: Lean Times in Lankhmar

Huh

The Stainless Steel Rat (The Stainless Steel Rat, volume 1) by Harry Harrison

Blake's 7 - a walk down memory lane.

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