Laundry Day
Oct. 28th, 2025 10:05 pm
Everything immediately coated in dog hair, as it should be

Everything immediately coated in dog hair, as it should be



Yay and Steve now have something in common

Which 2020 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
1 (2.3%)
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
36 (83.7%)
Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky
4 (9.3%)
The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
13 (30.2%)
The Last Astronaut by David Wellington
1 (2.3%)
The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley
18 (41.9%)
Good morning, afternoon, and evening!
We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)
I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.
Ta for now!

Which of these look interesting?
Abyss by Nicholas Binge (May 2026)
6 (12.5%)
Testimony of Mute Things by Lois McMaster Bujold (October 2025)
27 (56.2%)
Morsel by Carter Keane (April 2026)
4 (8.3%)
The Cove by Claire Rose (May 2026)
6 (12.5%)
Outgunned by Riccardo “Rico” Sirignano & Simone Formicola, with art by Daniela Giubellini (December 2024)
6 (12.5%)
And Side by Side They Wander by Molly Tanzer (May 2026)
16 (33.3%)
Lightning Runes by Harry Turtledove (March 2026)
8 (16.7%)
A Long and Speaking Silence by Nghi Vo (May 2026)
24 (50.0%)
Some other option (see comments)
0 (0.0%)
Cats!
37 (77.1%)
We have made the difficult decision to end development on Sigil. T