Re: Tiptree Winner Announced

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

We may not know what's going on, but the fact that the shortlists
aren't dominated by bestsellers implies we're at least looking.

-- 
Konrad Gaertner - - - - - - - - - - - - email: kgaertner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"I don't mind hidden depths but I insist that there be a surface."
                          -- James Nicoll