Mini-Letters and Procrastination Poll

Dear everyone: please encourage me to do my homework. Which does require a computer. Curses.

Dear book junkies: please update me on what Steven Brust, Kage Baker, and Rosemary Kirstein have been up to. Also, when's the last book in Kim Stanley Robinson's "Science in the Capitol" trilogy coming out?

Dear Cherryh fans: according to her online journal-ish thing, Cherryh's working on the Cyteen sequel again. (Best way to check for yourself: use a text function to search on the obvious.) Join me in laying odds it will see publication in this decade.

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Homework. Evil. But necessary. Sadness, despair, gnashing of teeth, and possibly ripping the ethernet cable out of the lab computer.

Edit: poll error. Obviously, scale should be one to ten, not one to five as in question.