Probability Moon & the 2010 Bulwer-Lytton winners

I read Nancy Kress' Probability Moon. A good yarn, with an interesting alien world/culture, albeit one that requires a high-powered Improbability Drive. The main Earth-y people in the story are a couple (xeno)sociologists, a geologist and a biologist, so they can perhaps be forgiven for not figuring out a couple physics things until many pages after I did. Plenty of First Contact-y character goodness. Kress has written two sequels, the latter of which won the Campbell best novel award; I'm not sure I enjoyed this one enough to seek the sequels. Or maybe my experience with Kress' Beggars trilogy tells me that the first one is the one to read.

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Going from good to bad, the Bulwer-Lytton Contest winners for 2010 have been announced.
( My faves, deserving of immortality )

I was looking for a bitchin' 70's fantasy art van

and found this