I got to have pizza at Lou Malnati's and Edwardo's, Berghoff's homemade bratwurst, and Leona's baked garlic chicken. I love Chicago dining.
And, of course, I also got to spend a decent amount of time reading (yes, I did take quite a stack of books and magazines, and yes, I do print out all the online stories because I hate reading fiction on screen):
- Short Stories
- Very Good
- Lalumière, Claude. "The Ethical Treatment of Meat". The Book of More Flesh.
- Lalumière, Claude. "The Ethical Treatment of Meat". The Book of More Flesh.
- Good
- Fowler, Christopher. "The Green Man". The Third Alternative Summer 2002.
- Little, Bentley. "Maya's Mother". The Collection.
- Piccirilli, Tom. "Naked Shall I Return". The Book of More Flesh.
- Fowler, Christopher. "The Green Man". The Third Alternative Summer 2002.
- Very Good
- Novelettes
- Very Good
- Bell, M. Shayne. "The Pagodas of Ciboure". The Green Man.
- Brown, Shane M. "Lucy Lucy". Aurealis #29.
- Bull, Emma. "Joshua Tree". The Green Man.
- Burns, Stephen L. "Look Away". Analog 5/02.
- Cardin, Matt. "Teeth". Children of Cthulhu.
- Coward, Mat. "Time Spent in Reconnaissance". Interzone 8/02.
- Cowdrey, Albert E. "The Boy's Got Talent". F&SF 9/02.
- Di Filippo, Paul. "Ailoura". Once Upon a Galaxy.
- Di Filippo, Paul. "Shipbreaker". Sci Fiction 10/02.
- Doctorow, Cory. "0wnz0red". Salon 8/02.
- Duntemann, Jeff. "Drumlin Boiler". Asimov's 4/02.
- Evans, Christopher. "Posterity". Interzone 9/02.
- Bell, M. Shayne. "The Pagodas of Ciboure". The Green Man.
- Good
- Blau, Gala. "The Routine". The Third Alternative Summer 2002.
- Calder, Richard. "Zarzuela". Interzone 4/02.
- Chapman, Stepan. "State Secrets of Aphasia". Leviathan 3.
- de Lint, Charles. "Somewhere in My Mind There Is a Painting Box". The Green Man.
- Dellamonica, A.M. "Living the Quiet Life". Oceans of the Mind Winter 2002.
- Dellamonica, A.M. "Three Times Over the Falls". Sci Fiction 2/02.
- Di Filippo, Paul. "A Martian Theodicy". Mars Probes.
- Duncan, Andy. "The Big Rock Candy Mountain". Conjunctions 39.
- Dunn, J.R. "The Names of All the Spirits". Sci Fiction 7/02.
- Blau, Gala. "The Routine". The Third Alternative Summer 2002.
- Very Good