Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Time	Event
10:35a	Open question What is the least appropriate SF cover of all time? (85 Comments | Comment on this)
10:42a	Are SF Awards an exercise in futility? From a discussion between Konrad Gaertner and myself on rasfw: James Nicoll wrote: > William George Ferguson <wmgfr...@newsguy.com> wrote: > >(James Nicoll) wrote: > >>I am woefully underread in F&SF. > >This is that new-fangled construction called 'irony', yes? > No, every time an award like this is announced I see titles > I not only have not read but haven't even heard of. This is one reason > why I am hesitant to vote for such book related awards as I am eligible > for, By this logic, is *anyone* qualified to vote? James, you read SF as your full time job; I don't think anyone here can claim to read more novels per year than you do (though Rich Horton probably has a lock on short fiction). > because I know I am missing huge amounts of good stuff. That's because there's too much stuff that some people think is good to read it all. Granted, rasfw is smaller than it was but if I'm the best read SF reader on rasfw and I know I've missing almost everything, what hope is there that the people who vote for awards are actually giving the awards to the most suitable works and not just the most suitable works of which they are aware? (28 Comments | Comment on this)

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