The word is going around tonight that Sean Fodera has apologized for his commentary to Mary Robinette Kowal. In two separate posts to sff.net, he’s addressed both his commentary about Mary and his stance on women in science fiction in general.

Sff.net is down as of this writing (word has it over at ‘s LJ that it got slashdotted), but screencaps were taken by Natalie at radishreviews.com, and are available here.

Having just read both of the screencaps, I can say that at least to this observer, they sound sincere and are well-written. More importantly, Mary Robinette Kowal has said on Twitter that she accepts his apology without reservation, and that’s good enough for me.

I have just accepted this apology without reservation. http://t.co/XRyEEPNsyz

— Mary Robinette Kowal (@MaryRobinette) February 21, 2014

It’s surprising and pleasing to see this, after the flames that have been shooting around the Internet this week. I’ll mark this as a plus on the side of “Anna will continue to keep an eye on SFWA”. And let’s hope that this time, this really is done!

ETA: Dara points out quite correctly that this is really only a resolution (if that) for Mr. Fodera’s part in this entire fracas. It does nothing to address the petition itself, nor its signers. I will be keeping an eye out for further developments on that, if any, as well.