What are you reading this week of May 28, 2017?

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13. Oh! I didn't know she had a new book out!

"The First Fifteen Lives" won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 2015 for best novel. It's a juried award, making it quite unlike the Hugos or the Nebulas.

I was at the Campbell Conference that year and got to meet Claire. She is very young and very enthusiastic and quite a good writer. I'll have to read it.

The Campbell Conference, in case you've never heard of it, is held in Lawrence, KS, every year in June or July. This year it's June 16-18, and I'm hoping to go. I'm still dithering a bit because of a potential schedule conflict, but I think I'll just bite the bullet and go. There's an award banquet, a round table discussion on the topic of the conference. This year they're honoring Jim Gunn, the man who founded the conference and is still going strong at the age of 93.

Here's a link for more information: http://www.sfcenter.ku.edu/campbell-conference.htm

Because this is such a small conference, you get to spend some real quality time with some big names in science fiction.