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Annalee Newitz, who’s in charge over at io9, has had her first short story published! It’s called “The Great Oxygen Race,” and there is some swearing in it (Annalee lives in San Francisco, remember—they are GODLESS there), and it is not a cheery story, but then neither is life, all the time. Anyway, READ IT.

And what a surprise it was to see Kelly O’Connor McNees’s name appear in my Google Reader yesterday, on author John Scalzi’s blog! We call her Kelly 2 around here—although usually we don’t call her at all, because most of the time she is IMing or Gmailing with Kelly 1, so it just makes more sense to type something at her, and saves on minutes too. Anyway, she’s gonna be doing a Big Idea post for Scalzi about her upcoming debut novel, The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott. You should BUY IT. (We already have a copy, because we are BAD-ASS.)