. . . ADVENTURE, with WONDER a close second.

The nice thing about westbound jet lag is that it lets you get up at ten minutes to five a.m., feeling all perky and productive. So I spent a couple of hours in the cafe this morning writing some code — really quite embarrassingly bad code, but functional — to tally up the results of the Zeppelin anthology title poll. With 21 ballots cast, ADVENTURE wins under both Instant Runoff Voting and Condorcet; so the guidelines that will come out at the end of the month will be for ALL-STAR ZEPPELIN ADVENTURE STORIES. Ask for it by name.

(The nice thing about eastbound jet lag is that it lets you stay up past midnight, hanging out and drinking good Belgian beer at L’Archiduc. That’s much better than writing code, but harder to keep up for extended periods of time.)

On a side note, I’ve just found out that I was born on the 42nd anniversary of the R101 disaster. That probably explains everything.

Figure 1. The R101 in mid-1930, before its name became inseparable from the word ‘disaster’.

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Update (27 Oct 2003): Submission guidelines for All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories are now available at http://www.allstarstories.com/.