I haven't been this popular a lawyer in quite a long time. Which is another way of saying: no new words that weren't legal words, but lots of legal words.

Over lunch, I read Aliette de Bodard's Nebula-nominated novellette, "The Jaguar House, in Shadow." I am not particularly enthusiastic about it; there are science fictional trappings thrown in, but why? Why not make it a straight fantasy, a political story told in a world that never was? None of the science fictional elements is necessary to the plot. I'm rather perplexed.

I'll be writing more about the Nebula-nominated novelettes for next Monday's column at Fantasy Literature.