Just Announced: The 2012 Hugo Awards, for the Best in Science Fiction

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The Hugo Awards have been revealed! They've been presented since 1955 and are ver-r-r-y prestigious!

This GalleyCat article points to information on the winners,

Read the Best Science Fiction of the Year

including complete text for

Best Novella -  The Man Who Bridged the Mist by Kij Johnson


Best Novelette - Six Months, Three Days by Charlie Jane Anders


Best Short Story - The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu (see the article to download the PDF)

Nice!

I'll be ordering the Best Novel: Jo Walton's  Among Others, which also won the 2011 Nebula Award.

You can find out about the history of the Hugo Awards here and FAQs here. Got a question about the Hugos? Go here.

Interesting news note: The live streaming of the Awards was abruptly terminated by a copyright enforcement robot! Read about it from io9.com here!

Happy reading!

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Love this '101 Summer Reading Top Picks' Infographic!

Wish I had this before school let out, but it definitely works for any time. I plan to post it in our library in the fall. ( This Summer )

And, of course, I'll be ordering the titles we don't have.

Via Teach.com and USC Rossier Online

Get the embed code for this chart at Summer Reading Flowchart: What Should You Read on Your Break?

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For Fervent-About-Summer-Reading Book Lovers Who Don't Tweet

This Twitter Stream is for Summer Reading aficionados who aren't on Twitter, so they can
        Watch
->Join the Conversation About Summer Reading <-
sponsored by the New York Times
from a safe vantage point. :)





For those who are thinking of joining Twitter, here's a great Beginner's Guide to Twitter for Non-Techies, by Michael Hyatt.


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