But it’s not a miracle–it’s just very, very small.

Still plugging away at Bedlam’s Bard this week–and, I confess, enjoying it more than I did to begin with. Part of my problem with it was that the shape of the plot seemed all wrong for the thickness of the book, which resolved itself when I realized it’s really two short novels, not one. But …

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Here’s a new, promising approach to mosquito control: interfere with the pests’ ability to metabolize cholesterol.

This is easy: no writing today! All I did was get SF Canada receipts and membership cards out, hang around my mother-in-law’s house waiting for some movers to come move a piece of furniture, and read blogs. Hey, not every day can be a winner.

NASA says many, if not all, of Genesis’s science goalsshould be salvageable. Good news!

It seems likely.

Wouldn’t you love to spend a few hours just enjoying the view from this window?

A quick entry: yesterday I prepared and delivered a proposal to write a book on the history of engineering and geoscience projects in Saskatchewan, and did some work on Razor Wind. That was about it!

Cassini discovers a new ring around Saturn and possibly two new moons–just the first of many interesting discoveries to come, I’ll bet.

The finalists for this year’s Aurora Awards, for the best Canadian science fiction and fantasy, have been announced. I am not, alas, among them, but just for interest’s sake, here they are: Best Long-Form Work in English Meilleur livre en anglais * Hidden in Sight, Julie E. Czerneda * Burndive, Karin Lowachee * Humans, Robert …

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I put Memory Jam and Threads into the mail today, and made some more progress on Razor Wind. Tomorrow: a couple of proposals to get finished, one for a writer-in-residence program, one for a history of Saskatchewan engineering. No rest for the wicked!

This is heartbreaking. It must feel like a mugging to the scientists involved.