Melting building

In walking around, I came across this very interesting building. It looks like it is melting. Odd reflections and unexpected angles. I couldn't tell what the building was for --- business? It was surrounded by residential buildings.

This post's theme word is vitrine, "a glass display case."

Hugo nominees 2013

Again! Another year, with the reading and the enjoying and the planet spinning and words coursing through my brain's word-processing centers.

Best Novel:

• Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas, John Scalzi
• Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance, Lois McMaster Bujold
• 2312, Kim Stanley Robinson
• Throne of the Crescent Moon, Saladin Ahmed
• Blackout, Mira Grant

Best Novella:

• The Emperor’s Soul, Brandon Sanderson
• After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, Nancy Kress
• “The Stars Do Not Lie”, Jay Lake
• On a Red Station, Drifting, Aliette de Bodard
• San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats, Mira Grant

Best Novelette:

• “The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi”, Pat Cadigan
• “In Sea-Salt Tears”, Seanan McGuire
• “Fade To White”, Catherynne M. Valente
• “Rat-Catcher”, Seanan McGuire
• “The Boy Who Cast No Shadow”, Thomas Olde Heuvelt

Best Short Story:

• “Mono no Aware”, Ken Liu
• “Immersion”, Aliette de Bodard
• “Mantis Wives”, Kij Johnson

[Update: the winners, announced.]


This post's theme word is chalcedony, "a milky or greyish transcucent to transparent quartz." My opinions are to the Hugos as chalcedony to diamond.