Matthew Hughes update

 According to the SF Signal blog , Matthew Hughes's Luff Imbry novel, The Other, is on a short list of three titles for the inaugural A.E. Van Vogt Award. The other two finalists are Lady of Mazes by Karl Schroeder and Alphanauts by Brian J. Clarke. The award is presented by the Winnipeg Science Fiction Association and is named for Canada's only SFWA grandmaster.
http://www.matthewhughes.org/excerpt-from-the-other/

 Paul Di Filippo has reviewed Matt's PS Publishing novella, "The Yellow Cabochon," in the current Asimov's. He says: "Hughes’s facility with ornate, roccoco language has never been more polished, and his plotting is sharp and twisty. His evocation of a faded age of wonders piles high the frissons of a factitious but effective nostalgia that is all the more piquant for being manufactured from mere allusions, rather than actual touchstones of our consensual past."

The whole review is here: (scroll down) http://www.asimovs.com/2013_02/onbooks.shtml

Meanwhile Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine is running the first half of  Matt's space-opera novelette, "And Then Some," as a free sample.  http://www.asimovs.com/2013_02/exc_story1.shtml
Locus Magazine's online short-fiction reviewer, Lois Tilton, calls "And Then Some" recommended reading in her review of the February Asimov's, and notes that the universe in which it's set is "complex and fascinating."

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