For starters, this Friday we'd like to offer congratulations to all of the Locus award winners!  As announced last weekend during the Science Fiction Awards Weekend in Seattle, here is a list of the winners:

• Connie Willis for Blackout/All Clear--Best Science Fiction Novel
• China Miéville for Kraken--Best Fantasy Novel
• N.K. Jemisin for The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms--Best First Novel
• Paolo Bacigalupi for Ship Breaker--Best Young Adult Novel
• Ted Chiang for The Lifecycle of Software Objects--Best Novella
• Asimov's--Best Magazine
• Tor--Best Book Publisher
• Warriors (ed. by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois)--Best Anthology
• Fritz Leiber for Fritz Leiber: Selected Stories--Best Collection
• Ellen Datlow--Best Editor
• Shaun Tan--Best Artist
• William H. Patterson, Jr. for Robert Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century: Volume 1: 1907-1948: Learning Curve--Best Non-Fiction Book
• Spectrum 17 (ed. by Cathy and Arnie Fenner)--Best Art Book

We'd also like to offer special congratulations to Neil Gaiman, one of our guests of honor at the original Fantasy Matters conference, for his double Locus win!  He won the Best Novelette category for "The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains" and the Best Short Story category for "The Thing About Cassandra."

Congratulations to all the winners!

Also, if you haven't yet, remember to help us pick the "Best Science Fiction Movie Ever" by voting in our poll.  And if you haven't been reading about our contestants, you can find them all here.

Finally, here are some more fun links to help you procrastinate until it's time to head home for the weekend (thanks very much to Kat Howard for the vast majority of these!):

• Think you're good with Legos?  Unless you can do this, you might want to reconsider. (Flickr)

• Here are some more very impressive models, these from a galaxy far, far away. (Star Destroyer Project)

• The website for Lev Grossman's upcoming book, The Magician King, is up, and it includes the very beautiful Fable of the Seven Golden Keys. (The Magicians Book)

• Can't get enough Game of Thrones?  Check out John Picacio's preview of the art from his new ASOIAF calendar! (On the Front)

• As we get ready for Torchwood to return to the air, here's John Barrowman (Captain John Harkness) dancing to "Single Ladies." (YouTube)

• The movie Labyrinth turns 25 this week.  To celebrate, here is Kat Howard's favorite scene from the movie. (YouTube)

• In other Neil Gaiman news, he was on Wits at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul last Friday, and MPR has some videos posted of the performance.  Here he is with Josh Ritter, performing "The Problem with Saints," and here he is with Adam Savage, and, um, Gollum, who performs "I Will Survive." (YouTube)

Have a great weekend everyone!