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hippocampus - Apr 12, 2015 1:38:51 pm PDT #23189 of 28342
not your mom's socks.

Consuela, I was just coming in here to post Sherwood's essay. I love it so.

So many great things being written on awards right now. Among them, the fact that Kit Reed (one of Joss Whedon's teachers) and many other female writers and writers of color have gone for much longer than since 2009 without receiving a shiny rocket... and kept writing. Kit pointed out somewhere recently that if she'd written with an eye to awards, she would have buried her typewriter by now.

And the amazing Michi Trota said something I've been thinking about more and more. Awards are great for the extended reading lists -- and reasons to read -- that they provide. This year's reading list (I've given it a crack already, as I'm determined to give everything at least a paragraph to win me over) is differently shaped and I am missing a lot of new voices that emerged in 2014.

It's harder for me now to make public reading lists, but I'd love to keep one somewhere -- maybe here? I don't know, I'm mostly musing.

Amy - Apr 12, 2015 4:17:26 pm PDT #23190 of 28342
Because books.

It's harder for me now to make public reading lists

Why?

hippocampus - Apr 12, 2015 5:08:39 pm PDT #23191 of 28342
not your mom's socks.

Why?

Last list of novels I posted, I got asked why I hadn't included x book, by its author.

Strix - Apr 12, 2015 5:40:10 pm PDT #23192 of 28342
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Whut?!

Dang, Sox, that's just...wow. One should be able to write a list of books one recommends without a frigging legal disclaimer attached to it. @@

hippocampus - Apr 12, 2015 6:02:50 pm PDT #23193 of 28342
not your mom's socks.

It's not a huge deal, just something I'm more aware of now. Bent feelings :(

Burrell - Apr 12, 2015 6:05:34 pm PDT #23194 of 28342
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Oh Sox, I can totes picture that one. On your side I mean. I can't actually picture asking someone that. Because duh!

Connie Neil - Apr 13, 2015 8:36:55 am PDT #23195 of 28342
brillig

I want all the Girl Genius books in print. There are 13 of them, and they are appropriately priced. I have a credit card, a new one with hot rod flames on it. It's whispering "Use me . . . use me . . ."

Toddson - Apr 14, 2015 4:28:23 am PDT #23196 of 28342
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

In regard to gaming the awards system, I understand that someone has set up a publishing house in Finland which has fewer than ten authors, specifically to publish the "sad puppy" nominees. By being published authors, they then become eligible for membership in the SFWA and, thus, to vote for the Nebula awards.

Just sayin' ...

hippocampus - Apr 14, 2015 4:45:58 am PDT #23197 of 28342
not your mom's socks.

Just sayin' ...

that someone's Lex Luthor cosplay is getting more on point every day.

Polter-Cow - Apr 14, 2015 8:06:12 am PDT #23198 of 28342
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

that someone's Lex Luthor cosplay is getting more on point every day.

He took forty* Hugo nominations. He took 40 Hugo nominations. That's as many as four tens. And that's terrible.

*Actually 57.

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