We're back from WisCon, safe and sound. It was fun. I will try to work up a con report soon, but here are a few thoughts:

• Madison is a beautiful city. I'd have liked to see more of it, but it was rainy and overcast most of the time we were there, which tended to discourage one from leaving the safe warm confines of the con hotel. Still, it seems like a really nice town, and there were lots of lovely little houses for rent, and every time anyone happened to mention real estate prices, we just wanted to cry.


• I picked up Sean Stewart's new novel, Perfect Circle from the Small Beer Press table in the dealer's room on Friday, and I finished reading it today during the plane ride back. Wow. Good. I think I may still like his novels Mockingbird and Galveston better, but Perfect Circle is a little bit creepy and very suspenseful and compulsively readable. (I came close to ditching the Sunday night con parties just so I could finish reading it. I restrained myself.)


• Oooh, I see from Sean's web page that he's just written a Star Wars novel. Too weird. This, I gotta see.


• I picked up a nice little haul of additional books: Polyphony 3, Flytrap #2, Nalo Hopkinson's Skin Folk, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen's Heaven, and Barbara Hambly's Sisters of the Raven. (I don't know much about the last two - I scored freebie copies. They look interesting.)


• Matt Ruff looks remarkably good in a tiara.


• I have come home to absolutely no new e-mail, which makes me wonder if my .mac account has filled up somehow and is bouncing. Must investigate.


• Mary Anne sold two books! Two! Two! Wheee!

Talk to y'all later!