Sad

[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?

Comments

[daveon.livejournal.com]

I am finding a lot of the blood letting a little weird myself. I think the wrong book won the Best Novel, but mostly because, compared to, say, The Dervish House, it was an inferior book. But it seems that a lot of people attending the con disagreed with me so heh, that happened.

Corrupt? Bollocks to that, as we say. I thought most of the other awards seemed to fall directly into my swathe of fandom, and it's agreeable to see friends or friends of friends win a Hugo.

This seems mild to me compared to, say, the blood letting I was seeing over the rank audacity of John Scalzi to dare to win Dave Langford's Hugo!

[jcbemis.livejournal.com]

I found The Dervish House almost unreadable, but it takes many opinions to make what we are.

[daveon.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not an easy read. But I'm not sure that the Best Novel should be...

[querldox.livejournal.com]

Whereas one can also make the argument that being hard to read is not necessarily an indicator of quality, and in some ways, certainly for a mass popularly voted award, is an argument against it being the "best". Depends on what one's criteria are for "best", but I don't think "hard to read" automatically trumps other criteria.

[daveon.livejournal.com]

I think the "hard to read" aspects of The Devish House are around McDonald's, frankly, amazing use of language to paint the picture of a very complicated setting. So, while it took some getting into, the use of English and the cross over with the blend of Eastern and Western culture was just beautiful.

Now, it wasn't, IMO, as good or as well done as River of Gods, but it was damn close and easily the best actual novel on that list.

[dsmoen.livejournal.com]

Possibly because I'd been to Istanbul and could thus immediately relate to the setting, I found it the easiest of the five nominees to get into.

[flick.livejournal.com]

Personally, I found it more (but not much more) readable than 100,000 Sequels Kingdoms.