[Siham Karami]

Martin Elster has been nominated for a Rhysling Award for speculative poetry for his poem in The Asses of Parnassus entitled "Why Have We Not Been Visited?"

Nice work, Martin!

[Susan McLean]

Congratulations, Martin!

Susan

[Ed Shacklee]

That's great! The link above wouldn't work for me, for some reason, so I'll add another one here.

Best,

Ed

[Gregory Palmerino]

Martin,

That's out of this world!

Greg

[W.F. Lantry]

"I pray for one last landing
on the globe that gave me birth
to rest my eyes on fleecy skies
and the cool green hills of Earth..."

-Rhysling

Congrats, Martin!

[Matt Q]

Martin has two poems nominated, one in the long poem section and one in the short poem section. I also have a poem nominated in the short poem section. As I understand it, our poems will be appearing in the annual Rhysling Anthology, after which the SFPA membership will vote for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in the long and short poem categories.

I reckon if enough Sphereans were to join the SFPA, we could win this thing. Just saying.

-Matt

[Tony Barnstone]

That's cool.

[Martin Elster]

Originally Posted by Matt Q

Rhysling is a fictional character (a blind space poet) created by Heinlein, and is the hero of the short story in which the song, attributed to him, appears. Or so Wikipedia tells me. I've not read the story, but I think I shall seek it out.

Thanks for informing me, Matt. Actually, last November I read The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein, a collection of short stories. It was quite enjoyable.

Hello, Tony. It is, indeed, cool.
I have a previous anthology of theirs, and it’s a nice-looking book.

[Jayne Osborn]

Great news, Martin and Matt.

Congratulations to you both - and good luck with the SFPA members' votes!