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File 770 has the link to the 2025 Goodreads Choice winners I collated data from the Goodreads awards back in 2023 but forgot to update it last year. I've added 2024 and 2025 data to my dataset now and thought I'd share some of what I can see. I'd don't want to start another round of "science fiction is dying" particularly on the basis of what is a very loose open vote on the internet. However, while there is a strong trend upwards for several genres in vote totals, Science Fiction is a bit flat.

"There's been a MURDER!""Where! Who! Why!""Here! I don't know! I don't know that either!""Oh no!""Oh yes! A despicable and yet most mysterious murder!""I know I said 'where' already but can you be more specific?""Behind this locked and bolted door, within the windowless room which has no means of entry OR exit!""But then there's no way the murderer could get in!""Exactly!""And no way the murderer could escape!""Exactly! It is a locked room mystery!""We'd better open the door then.""We can't! The KEY HAS GONE!"

And now, the end is near and I must face the final edit...1 Just as the Castalia House Blog went dark in October, it appears that the world's saddest Wikipedia-fork has finally given up the ghost. Links to Infogalactic, forever known in our hearts as Voxopedia no longer work. Yes, it was full of badly vandalised Wikipedia pages but also it had exhaustive entries on the discography of Englebert Humperdinck. Indeed of the multitude of obnoxiously far-right websites that have proliferated over the past decade, only one can truly be said to also carry detailed information on the 1967 hit album "Release Me".

Susan's Salon is a weekly post for reader comments on any topic they like. This includes personal news, self-promotion, politics, general interest, knotting patterns or anything else including Virginia Woolf poems. Nothing hateful and no cranky exchanges please.

I said in yesterday's post that Grokipedia you can't look at the history of the page. I was wrong, sort of. There is now an "Edits History" button at the top right-hand side of the page. There had been one suggested but rejected edit to the page until yesterday, dated "Last month". The page mentions in two places that the Hugos started in 1953. Somebody suggested removing one of those instances and the computer said no. "Original Textestablished in 1953Suggested Edit SummaryRedundant. Establish year was already said in the last section.

How to donate to Sri Lankan flood relief initiatives in the wake of Cyclone Ditwah.

Elon Musk's LLMangled encyclopedia is about a month old now. This is my fourth look at how the article on the Sad Puppies is going, powered by the insights of the computer mega-mind Grok. Earlier posts are here: When I last looked the page had a number of major factual errors in it. Note, while I might also dispute a lot of the spin and recycled opinion in the page, I'm focused on straight-forward factual errors that are easily verifiable. The current page says it was fact checked by Grok and updated November 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM (it doesn't give a timezone).