Re: Tiptree Winner Announced

In article <48060D6C.5262201B@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Konrad Gaertner  <kgaertner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>James Nicoll wrote:
>> 
>> William George Ferguson  <wmgfrgsn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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).
>
	I'm willing to concede that nobody can keep up with SF
and that as a result, good works will go unrewarded while inferior
books that had a bit better luck at catching the public eye will
be rewarded instead. 

	I guess the best hope is that while any one of us is 
uninformed, the reader****p as a whole knows what is going on.

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defending the English language [...]" T-****rt, cup and tote-bag needs)