Author Michael Moorcock, writing in the March issue of Ansible writes that he is honored to have been chosen as this year’s SFWA Grand Master, but also confirms rumors of surgery. “Yeah, I had a big toe off last week in Seaton Hospital, Austin. I’ve been going to hyperbarics for a couple of weeks and it seems to be doing you good. The tube this time is a communal chamber. The whole thing is like a set of a 1950s sf movie, including the helmet you wear. The other day a guy cracked up in the chamber, just like a bit part actor in a Twilight Zone episode. We couldn’t do too much because we were in the middle of what the techs call a dive. I’m able to take a notebook in, so now I really know what it’s like to work under pressure.… The worst horror is that we have a teenager aboard and she asks to watch teeny TV—we’re all otherwise readers or snoozers. And then she asks for the sound raised above the helmet noise—we all sound (and indeed look) like Cybermen in there. Or so many trainee Darths.”