Clarion West 2006 Instructors and Awards

Both Paul Park and Ian R. MacLeod are up for this year’s Sidewise Award, and it’s a very nice thing to see two such talented individuals being recognized, especially for an award for work in a subgenre I myself enjoy so much — alternate history. And in very big recent news, Paul Park is also up for the World Fantasy award 2006 for the novel format.

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Jazzpunk

In honor of the novella I wrote in week 6 of the workshop, an alien-infested alternate history story that Vernor Vinge claimed was to jazz what hard SF is to science, when my turn for facepainting came during one of our final parties, I asked whether Tina could do the script you see below. It reads “je-jeu pun-keu”, which is how one would write “Jazzpunk” in Korean. (Though I might have misspelled that first vowel… it’s always a guess whether it’s a-e or eo-e. I predict the two will be collapsed into one vowel, probably a-e, within 200 years. Which …

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