In other better news

[desperance]

Given that almost everything I read online comes from or is somehow connected with the SF/F community, I cannot quite understand how I missed this (yeah, okay, I was working up to getting married round about then, and may not have been paying attention) - but the Philip K Dick Award was announced a month ago. And went to my Tyneside friend and old First Monday buddy, Simon Morden, for his Petrovich books of the mind-numbing covers. So yay!

I shall use his wedding-gifts hereafter with extra reverence and thoughtfulness...