The 2001 Nebula Awards were handed out last night at a lavish banquet in Kansas City. Kelly Link took home the best novelette trophy for her excellent story "Louise's Ghost," but I had a hard time feeling any disappointment in the midst of this thrilling first experience as a Nebula nominee. I really couldn't have had a better weekend. See if you can spot Laura and me in these photos from the Nebula events, and look for my nominated novelette, "Dance of the Yellow-Breasted Luddites," in Ellen Datlow's superior anthology Vanishing Acts.

The new anthology Beyond the Last Star, containing my short story "The Diagnostic Feast," is slated to be released in August 2002. The book is edited by Sherwood Smith and is the fifth and final volume of SFF Net's "Darkfire" anthology series. The book cannot yet be pre-ordered, but watch this space for more details on its availability.