Awards and speeches

[wellinghall]

Doctor Who wins Hugo award:
http://www.locusmag.com/2006/News/08_HugoCampbellWinners.html

Lois McMaster Bujold's speech at Mythcon:
http://www.dendarii.com/inklings.html

Comments

[sally_maria]

Thank you for the link to the Lois McMaster Bujold speech, that was fascinating. I keep hearing good things about her, I really ought to read some of her books one of these days.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

They're well worth it! We can bring one to Oxonmoot if you'd like to borrow it?

[sally_maria]

Ooh - thank you, that would be great. :-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Okay, we'll try to remember ...

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

Ditto what Sally says.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Remind me which one we've lent you already?

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

Her speech really was wonderful. I need to post about her forthcoming Sharing Knife: Beguilement: she gave me an advance reader's copy (which I devoured immediately), and I need to share with everyone some of the good reasons to preorder it. :)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I'm looking forward to it coming out. Now all I have to do is read the massive stacks of books that are teetering all around me, before they collapse, knock me out, and I wake up in Oz ...

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

Ouch! LOL!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I don't think we're in Harlington any more, eldritchhobbit ...

[asklepia.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the links - very interesting, especially the Bujold speech. I, too, am eagerly awaiting her next book.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

My Amazon shopping basket is getting heavier and heavier ...

[asklepia.livejournal.com]

*g* I think I'd die without Amazon and Alibris. I've become terribly spoilt, being able to find almost any book I want somewhere on the web. I would hate to have to go back to the days of making slow, laborious enquiries by letter to various secondhand bookshops.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

These days I use Abebooks much more for 2/h books (along with eBay, of course!), largely out of habit. How do you find Alibris?

[asklepia.livejournal.com]

Oh, I use abebooks as well - though for some reason I don't really like their site as much. Not sure why. I've been with alibris nearly as long as I've been with amazon (which is ten years) and I've never had a problem with either. The only problem with alibris is that there is less of an international presence, but even that is improving, and for me, it's an awful lot cheaper to get books from the US than the UK (your mail charges are astronomical).