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[kevin_standlee]

Cheryl's withdrawal from many of her current projects saddens me, although it doesn't surprise me.

If there is anyone out there who wants to continue to insinuate that the Hugo Awards are somehow "corrupt," and who has any better evidence than "I didn't win" or "The things I wanted to win didn't," I want them to actually come forward and produce it.

I've said this before and I'll keep saying it: The failure of works/people to win the Hugo Award that you want to win is not a failure of process. Why is it so difficult for people to get it through their heads that not everyone thinks exactly the same way they do? Is it so important to you to consider yourself The Standard Person?

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[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Without disagreeing that quite a few people have said things in the range from unwise to unpardonable, I still think she's over-reacting. But it's her life and time and work.

(I'm unhappy about _Chicks Dig Time Lords_ because I don't like TV SF and particularly dislike Dr. Who in particular, but I hear it's actually got a lot of good stuff in it. In any case, I don't feel there's anything the slightest bit illegitimate about it winning.)

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

It's a very fannish, perhaps even faanish, book, and that might be part of its appeal.