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Renovation Deadline

Renovation, the 69th World Science Fiction Convention, today issued a reminder that the deadline is fast approaching to gain the right to nominate for the 2011 Hugo Awards and John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.

Five for Friday

Rob Horning in The New Inquiry says publishers will not only use data collected from eReaders to track your buying habits, they’ll use it to track your reading habits. Did you skip to the end of the book? They’ll know. Did you give up on page 28? They’ll know.

Guest Post: What is Typography?

For the past year, I’ve been working with dancers from Netherlands Dance Theatre in The Hague on creating a tool that translates text into simple choreographies. A user types a word in a typesetting-like application that plays back this word as an uninterrupted dance sequence where dancer’s body temporarily makes positions recognizable as letters.

Quick Updates for 2011-01-20

SFWA member Sara Creasy has been nominated for a Philip K Dick Award for her debut SF novel Song of Scarabaeus (Eos). # Welcome to SFWA's newest Associate member Dan Gollub. Read his qualifying story at Nature http://is.gd/tuu0Pu # Welcome to SFWA's newest Active member Karen Sandler (@karensandlerYA), author of Night Whispers (Berkely Jove, 1999) […]