The poll indicates you lot think that next year's Hugo Short Form Drama nominations will be: Doctor Who; Dollhouse; Lost; True Blood and Fringe. My own bet, now it becomes clear that The Prisoner will probably be eligible for Long Form, is: Doctor Who; Dollhouse; L0st; Flash Forward and Stargate Universe. It was hard to choose between True Blood and Flash Forward. Both deserve it, but the latter has Rob Sawyer speaking for it. So let's see who's got it right when the nominations are revealed. When I won't be able to find this post. Cheerio!

For those of you not reading on Blogger, go have a look at the poll on the right of the blog over there. I'll wait. Ah, there you are again, that didn't take long. The wisdom of crowds has spoken, and it says that the five Hugo nominees for the Short Form Drama category next year will be episodes from:

It was good to hear Geoff Ryman, the editor of the anthology I have a story in, When It Changed, on BBC Radio 4's Material World, talking in their science strand about the book, the scientists and writers involved, and Mundane Science Fiction. You can listen (and I always have to say, yes, even if you are outside the UK) here. The presenter, Quentin Cooper, doesn't quite get what Mundane is to begin with, but Geoff quickly sets things up, and all in all it's a refreshing visit.

It's with great pride and some surprise that I find I've been asked to join the Clockwork Storybook group of writers. These guys: Mark Finn; Daryl Gregory; Marjorie Liu; Chris Roberson; Matt Sturges; Bill Williams and Bill Willingham aspire to be a kind of modern-day version of the Inklings, the group of drunkards who bothered the landlord of the Eagle and Child in Oxford by never buying more than half a beer each, and incidentally talked about elves all the time. I suspect this lot would please your average barkeep rather more.

The lovely first few pages of the final issue of Dark Reign: Young Avengers are here.

And I hope to see some of you at the Royal Greenwich Observatory tonight! Cheerio!

I'm pleased to report that When It Changed, the new SF anthology edited by Geoff Ryman, with a story by me in it, is now available, either from all good bookshops, or from Comma Press themselves. You can find all the details here. This is the anthology for which Michael Moorcock was kind enough to allow me to use his character Jerry Cornelius. The idea of the book is that the writers involved, including Justina Robson, Ken MacLeod, Liz Williams and Adam Roberts, are paired up with scientists, who offered us research material, and then commented on our stories in a short article after each. My pet scientist was Dr. Rob Appleby, who works on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. I'm very proud of the book, and I love how it once again sits SF and science down at the same romantic restaurant table and says hey, you kids are meant to be together. My story is called 'Global Collider Generation: An Idyll' and I hope you enjoy it. (Oh, and the biography of me on the Comma site is an old one: that 'new Doctor Who two-parter' from me they refer to was 'Human Nature'. Calm down.)