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Proofreader: Ellen Phillips Published by The Right Hand.  \nSponsored by Orbit.  \nContents  \nFiction: Shortly Comes the Harvest by James Cooper Feature: Hub Awards (well, not exactly) by Lee Harris  \nThe Last Hub of the Year  \nIt’s been a busy old year. After Hub issue 2 was published, and I took the decision to print no more (due to lack of advertising), I embarked on a bit of a rollercoaster. Orbit’s generous patronage in April meant that Hub was able to continue in an electronic format, and it seems this is its natural element. In just six months Hub went from being the newest weekly electronic genre fiction magazine on the market to being the most widely-read of its type in Europe, partly due to a National Lottery grant awarded to us specifically to pay for marketing. We have our eyes on that “in the world” accolade. We’ve published some big name authors, as well as a whole host of emerging writers – many of which have published books this year, many of which will publish next year. We’re proud to be a (small) link in their bids for world literary domination.  \nThis year I attended my first ever convention – FantasyCon in September, hosted by the British Fantasy Society. I was a little nervous (I went alone) and hoped I wouldn’t be spending every spare minute propped against the bar, desperately clutching a beer, trying not to look like a wallflower. My wife was extremely embarrassed, and if asked where I was that weekend, she was planning to tell people I was in prison, in order to save face. In fact, our expectations were completely wrong. There were no Klingons in sight, no queuing behind stormtroopers in the lavatory, and no hairy-footed hobbits wandering around fingering their rings.  \nWhat I did encounter was the friendliest group of strangers I’d ever met. And boy – can they consume beer! At the end of the weekend-long festivities I immediately booked for the 2008 event (and if any of you are planning to attend EasterCon this year, I’ll see you there!) .  \nPlenty of reviewing work for other magazines in 2007 has guaranteed an extra holiday in 2008, and I became editor of Prism – the newsletter for the British Fantasy Society (my first issue being mainly successful – I forgot to put page numbers on it! Doh!)  \nEnjoy your New Year celebrations, and we’ll see you next week, with our Flash Special, and our first column from new contributor (and my favourite podcaster), Mur Lafferty.  \nLee Harris  \nAbout Hub  \nEvery week we publish a piece of short fiction, along with at least one review and sometimes a feature or interview. We can afford to do this largely due to the generosity of our sponsors over at Orbit. If you like what you read here, please consider making a donation over [at](at www.hub-mag.co.uk. We pay our writers)[ ](at www.hub-mag.co.uk. We pay our writers)[www.hub-mag.co.uk](at www.hub-mag.co.uk. We pay our writers)[. We pay our writers](at www.hub-mag.co.uk. We pay our writers), and anything you donate helps us to continue to attract high quality fiction and non-fiction.  \nby James Cooper First published in  \nYou Are The Fly: Tales of Redemption and Distress.  \nHumdrumming, August 2007  \nWhen I visited Frank to console him after his mother’s death I found him sitting in his pyjamas eating meat. His face was grey from lack of sleep and his left eye twitched as heate, but other than that he claimed he was fine.  \nHe didn’t look fine though; he looked sick. The house was filthy and smelt like a farmer’s market after a day in the sun. I wondered how much of the meat had gone bad.  \nI wanted to hug him, but there was something writhing on the plate in his hand. When I asked him what the hell it was, he looked puzzled.  \n“They’re worms,” he told me,“dug up from the garden; a prize delicacy if they’ve been‘evacuated’on oatmeal for a few days before serving.”  \nI looked at the plate, then at him, and felt sick. 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