Quick Updates for 2010-05-23

Resources
- The special Science Fiction issue of World Literature Today is available. It includes exclusive web content.
- The Big Picture has photos of prep and liftoff of the space shuttle Atlantis.
- Meghan McCarron: Delany on Racism and Science Fiction.
Member News
- Welcome to SFWA’s newest Active member Robinson Wells author of VARIANT from HarperTeen.
- Welcome to SFWA’s newest Active member Erin Kellison, author of Shadow Bound from Dorchester.
- Welcome to SFWA’s newest Active member Carrie Harris, author of BAD TASTE IN BOYS from Random House. She is our 100th new member in 2010.
- SFWA member Eugie Foster sold Italian, French, & Czech translations of “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest” to Robot, Ténèbres, & Pevnost.
- Former SFWA president Norman Spinrad had successful surgery for his stomach cancer. Update here.
- Welcome to SFWA’s newest Affiliate member Malcolm Edwards, Deputy Chief Executive of Orion Publishing Group.
- SFWA now has 1700 members!
- SFWA member N.K. Jemisin has sold Polish, Spanish, and audio rights to The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms.


Looks like this came from my Twitter feed. Just to clarify, “100K” is The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, the first book of the Inheritance Trilogy, out now from Orbit Books. =) Thanks for spreading the word!
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