NOTE FROM JOHN:

The Mayor of Kansas City has declared April 25-28
to be “Nebula Awards Weekend” in Kansas City to
coincide with the awards weekend to be held there
by the Kansas City SF & Fantasy Society and the SF
& Fantasy Writers of America. Our friends running
the KC Society have asked us to help out with a list:

The Top 5 Signs It’s Nebula
Awards Weekend in Kansas City

5> Hookers on Second Avenue offer to assist with the Captain’s Log.

4> The festive release of several cloned carnosaurs across the river to Kansas tatooed with the phrase, “Greetings to the Creationist’s Paradise” across their stomachs.

3> Pale pasty guys in the riverboat casino: Check. Guys hitting on the cocktail waitress and failing: Check. Guys unable to hold their alcohol: Check. Guys wearing fake Spock ears: Convention must be in town.

2> It’s raining X-Men.

and the Number 1 Sign It’s Nebula Awards Weekend in Kansas
City…

1> Good Kansas City is geared up to do battle with Evil Goateed Kansas City.

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Credits:

Selected from 24 submissions from 7 contributors.
Today’s Top 5 List authors are:

Wade Kwon, Birmingham, AL — 1, 2, 5 (Hat trick, 4th #1!)
Peter Heltzer, Wheeling, IL — 3
Guy Payne, Birmingham, AL — 4
Richard Lipp, Kansas City, MO — Topic
Mary Ann McDonald, Sacramento, CA — RU List Name
John Mozena, Grosse Pointe Woods, MI — Prime Director