Lots of news this week. The December Internet Review of Science Fiction includes Greg Beatty’s long and thoughtful review of Space Magic (“this collection makes it clear that David D. Levine is a writer to watch”). The December Locus includes Gardner Dozois’s review of Transhuman (“Best story here is by David D. Levine”). I received my contributor’s copies of the February 2009 issue of Realms of Fantasy, including my story “Joy is the Serious Business of Heaven” (I love, love, love the illustration they gave it). The audio version of “Sun Magic, Earth Magic” (ably read by BCS editor Scott H. Andrews) was posted at Beneath Ceaseless Skies. A five-minute video of me blabbering incoherently, recorded by Bill Johnson of Willamette Writers at OryCon, was posted on YouTube. And I learned that Aeon Magazine, the next issue of which was going to contain my story “The True Story of Merganther’s Run,” is suspending publication, but the story is supposed to appear in an anthology, The End of an Aeon, some time in 2009.