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[Hi there.  If you’ve stopped by to read my infamous blog post regarding the bizarro publishing history of my trilogy, it’s here.]

I have two extra copies of Jonathan Strahan’s anthology, The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 5.  So, I’m giving them away!  And in two separate venues, no less.

I’ve listed one giveaway over at Goodreads.  If you’re on GR, you can go to the giveaways page to sign up to win a copy.  [ETA: The giveaway at Goodreads is still pending approval, as of Monday evening.  My apologies for jumping the gun on this.  It’s up now, Tuesday afternoon.]  If you’re not on Goodreads, or if you’d like to increase your chances of winning, read on.

[Hello there.  If you’re stopping by to read my infamous blog post regarding the bizarro publishing history of my trilogy, it’s here.]

This question isn’t prompted by a recent experience or anything that has happened to me.  (Honest.)  But I’m genuinely curious about something: why do some people tend to heap so much scorn on the simple practice of posting spoiler warnings in online fora?

Not everybody does this, of course.  And I’m sure there are plenty of folks to whom the notion of spoiler warnings wouldn’t even merit a cocked eyebrow.  But enough people seem so dead-set against the idea that… well, it baffles me.

[Hi there.  If you’ve stopped by to read my infamous blog post regarding the bizarro publishing history of my trilogy, it’s here.]

I’ve been meaning to do this for quite a while, but lately I’ve been more scatterbrained than usual.  But!  Thanks to yesterday’s blog comment from Steve Halter (hi, Steve), I finally got my act together and posted a couple of short stories on the website.  One Milkweed story, and one standalone.

Right now they’re both in PDF format.  More formats will come later.  A lot later.  (I know, I should be all Web 3.0 and stuff.  I will.  Later.) 

Links to the new stories are available on the Words page.  And there are also links below the cut, where I’ve written a little bit about the history of both pieces.

[Hi there.  If you’ve stopped by to read my infamous blog post regarding the bizzaro publishing history of my trilogy, it’s here.]

Wow.

You guys.  I mean… wow.  Just, wow.

I cannot believe how much attention my previous blog post has received.  When I posted that entry on Sunday, I did it to clear the air, and so that I’d have a long and detailed explanation available for when people asked about the books.  I honestly never thought it would be seen immediately by anybody other than my usual readers (hello, all 5 of you!).  When I asked for folks to spread the word, I had no idea just how far you’d spread it.

I’m blown away by all the blog comments and many private messages of support.  I know I’ve already said this dozens of times, but the support and affirmation means the world to me.  Everybody has been incredibly kind.  Thank you.

My previous post about the Voynich Manuscript came about partly because recently I’ve been feeling a lack of wonderment and mystery in my life.   Let’s call it a paucity of oddments. 

At times like this, my daydreams tend to drift in well-traveled directions, to follow the well-trodden paths of my dilettantism.  Like iron filings before a superconducting magnet, my thoughts are drawn to pleasant memories of other introductions to the strange.  Because I like to remind myself—I need to remind myself—that we do live in a strange and interesting world.

Which is probably why I’ve always been fascinated by number stations.