Wait, wait, wasn't my last post about a happy anniversary? Well, yes. Sorry for the lack of posts—we were moving office, but now I am back and able to blog. And the anniversary is...my own! Two years ago I started at VIZ to help launch Haikasoru. Of course, Haikasoru's only been around for a year, but it's not like I can publish books the way a chicken lays eggs. It took eleven months to get those first titles out, and even now we're making decisions about what to publish in the summer of 2011 and even the early days of 2012. I also spotted a good anniversary treat—an excellent review of Slum Online over at Strange Horizons, a magazine about to celebrate its own tenth anniversary. Who would have thought that an online science fiction magazine specializing in short stories and quality reviews could have lasted a decade, and as a non-profit organization? The review reads, in part: It raises narratological issues about the representation of consciousness in game worlds. The problem is not too different from narrating the inner life of a mind, because our inner virtual realities are just as sensory-driven as Versus Town is action-driven. ... Perhaps a truly advanced tech will make the world simpler to negotiate, not more complicated. But what Slum Online sets out to show, I think, is that whether human worlds are simple or complicated, what makes them work are the usual invariants: friendships, compassion, and perseverance in the face of odds. The sound FX of applause. See? It ain't just kid's stuf