Wednesday, August 12, 2009              Tags:, ,  Monday, August
10, 2009  Hugo Award Winner: Bear's Shoggoths in Bloom  The sea-
swept rocks of the remote Maine coast are habitat to a panoply
of colorful creatures. It's an opportunity, a little-studied
maritime ecosystem. This is in part due to difficulty of access
and in part due to the perils inherent in close contact with its
rarest and most spectacular denizen: Oracupoda horibilis, the
common surf shoggoth. This year's Hugo for best novelette went
to Elizabeth Bear for her WWII-era alternate natural history
tale "Shoggoths in Bloom". As the title suggests the story
features shoggoths, creatures from HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu
Mythos, but with a slightly different twist.  Read Shoggoths in
Bloom  Image: Shoggoth by pahko @ wikimedia commons. Also see
pahko at DeviantArt. Tags:, , ,  Hugo Award Winner: Chiang's
Exhalation   Read Exhalation  Tags:, , ,  Hugo Award Winner:
Kress's Erdmann Nexus  Nancy Kress's novella "The Erdmann Nexus"
won a Hugo yesterday. It's