Re: Hugo Shortlist 2008 (Sawyer)

Rich Horton wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:12:13 -0700 (PDT), DouhetSukd
> <DouhetSukd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> Sawyer's decent enough and neither his politics, nor Gene's
>> unfathomable lack of attraction to his manly charms, justify dragging
>> him through the mud.  He's not in my top 10, but somewhere in my top
>> 20-30.  Probably 'cause I usually don't go for any SF published <
>> 1985 or so, which bars me from the classics.
>
> I don't get why complaining that a merely competent writer is
> nominated for the Hugo way too often is equated with dragging him
> through the mud.

To say nothing of the fact that you don't have to get all mealy-mouthed 
about "the classics" to find several dozen writers with better novels than

Sawyer's.

-- 
Christopher Adams
Sydney, Australia

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