Voting results

Americans have been voting today (I know, in the middle of the week, how strange) and this is how the intersection near where I live looks like:

Those funny signs are everywhere and not just about voting.

Enough democracy; now something where judges decide:

The World Fantasy Awards winners for works published in 2009 were announced on Sunday and it's another one for China. Good he wrote a book that can't be easily classified so he gets all the awards both fantasy and science fiction. Here are all the winners.

Novel: "The City & The City" China Miéville

Novella: "Sea-Hearts"  Margo Lanagan

Short Story: "The Pelican Bar”, Karen Joy Fowler (Eclipse Three)

Anthology: "American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny: From Poe to the Pulps/From the 1940s to Now" Peter Straub, ed. (Library of America)

Collection (tie): "There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales" Ludmilla Petrushevskaya (Penguin)
                            "The Very Best of Gene Wolfe/The Best of Gene Wolfe" Gene Wolfe (PS /Tor)

Artist: Charles Vess

Special Award – Professional: Jonathan Strahan for editing anthologies

Special Award – Non-Professional: Susan Marie Groppi for Strange Horizons