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• https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawkN0SsDNhDSuuZRNvB58JCZjk-1lak4b7w commented on Hiatus
  Yeah, congratulations....
• bluemoose67 commented on Hiatus
  Congrats Charlie, well deserved win. I'm not sure if you genuinely thought you wouldn't win, or were just being modest when we wished you luck at the signing at Loncon3. We did try to find you after the ceremony, to shake your hand and buy you a beer, but Mary R-K had do to instead. Lovely lady....
• gravelbelly22 commented on Hiatus
  And congratulations too, to Ginjer Buchanan. Perhaps your shameless touting worked? :)...
• JamesPadraicR commented on Hiatus
  If I understand the voting stats, "Neptune's Brood" came in second for novel. And VD's novelette came in behind No Award. So all's well with the world, at least parts of it....
• TRX commented on Hiatus
  The tricky part would be getting the aluminum for the zeppelin or plane bodies, if you're going to make a 19th century air force. With your oil-based chemical technology, you could jump directly to fiberglass and carbon fiber. Also, the strength/weight ratio difference between steel and aluminum is less than you might expect; the Soviet MiG-29 and the American B-70 airframes were largely steel. Production of aluminum by chemical means is tedious and expensive. Enough that when the Washington Monument was built, it was capped with aluminum, which was more valuable than gold or platinum. But if you have...