At the start of this year, all six writers who had won a single Hugo for one work and a single Nebula for another were alive. Now we have lost both Joanna Russ and Anne McCaffrey. All good health to Robert J. Sawyer, Lucius Shepard, Suzy McKee Charnas and Brian W. Aldiss.
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Good piece. On Number 5, the one pointing out the irony of complaining that Hacked Off lobbied politicians, it’s worth noting that (according to Nick Robinson on the Today programme this morning) the overnight negotiations between the parties were punctuated by frequent calls to Lord Black and representatives of the Mail and the Times, checking what would and wouldn’t be acceptable to them, to the extent that they were effectively “in the room”.