The end of a vertiginous experience today.

Most overwhelmed by: How nice everyone in the SF world is! Friendly writers, approachable writers, critics, publishers, editors. The Hugo Awards ceremony was a celebration of comraderie, acknowledgment and achievement --the first one I've attended.

Harlan rocked. The biggest compliment I can pay him, after seeing him talk for an hour and a half and take questions from the audience, is this: George Carlin is the Harlan Ellison of standup comedy.

Lou Anders is awesome. Today he presented Ander's Three Laws of Editorship: (1) Edit first to make money for your publisher (2) Edit to publish the best work by an author, so long as this does not interfere with Law 1 (3) Edit to publish the best contribution to the SF field as a whole, as long as this does not conflict with Laws 1 or 2.

...Will there be a Zeroth Law added some time in the future, I wonder?

Connie Willis almost cried during the Hugo Awards Ceremony, while talking immediately after receiving the Hugo Award for best novella for "Inside Job." A tear rolled down my own cheek listening to her, inspired by her passion and gratitude at the award and, beyond that, at the life she's been able to live as a professional writer in SF.

Acquired a copy of Astounding Stories, August 1933, containing the by now infamous story "The Meteor Men of Plaa", mentioned by Bob Silverberg in his 2003 editorial on the "Ancestral Voices" of our field. Read about each story in the issue in Bleiler's THE GERNSBACK YEARS -- look forward to reading the actual stories soon.