The finalists for the 2012 Nebula Awards have been announced. SFSignal has been kind enough to post the nominees along with download links, where they're aware of them. (We'll put up a poll for our visitors to pick their choices.)
Annalee Newits at io9 has put together a long, detailed narrative of just what the Google Book Settlement might mean to you, me, Ursula le Guin, and the author of hypothetical '50s-era pulp series Journey To My Tentacle Cave.
The huge ocean of fluid over our heads has equally impressive waves. They are huge and fast, and now we can observe them thanks to advances in technology.
