Hugo if you want to...
From time to time, when lil_shepherd and I are out walking the dog, or getting the shopping, or doing some other activity that requires minimal engagement, we discuss The Importance (and fun) of Doing Research, with side-diversions into (for fanfic) the Importance of Brit/Yank Picking.
Sooner or later the name of Connie Willis comes up in this regard.
I quite enjoyed some of her books set in the US, but couldn't help but notice that when she ventures into areas I knew something about (the first/last voyage of the Titanic for example) the attention to accurate detail was... lacking.
So we are watching with some amusement the responses to the news that Blackout/All Clear has just won the Hugo for Best Novel (despite it being two novels).
Andrew Hickey's splendid rant nails the worse of the things that no conscientious fanwriter would have let pass (Have the entire plot of your book depend on the idea that a historian, at Oxford University, whose specialist period is the Second World War, is completely unfamiliar with the names ‘Bletchley Park’ and ‘Alan Turing’.)
Wrong Questions suggests that it may be: the worst best novel Hugo choice ever.
However, in other Hugo news, congratulations to Claire Brialey for being named best fanwriter (and keeping it in the Brit family).
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Sooner or later the name of Connie Willis comes up in this regard.
I quite enjoyed some of her books set in the US, but couldn't help but notice that when she ventures into areas I knew something about (the first/last voyage of the Titanic for example) the attention to accurate detail was... lacking.
So we are watching with some amusement the responses to the news that Blackout/All Clear has just won the Hugo for Best Novel (despite it being two novels).
Andrew Hickey's splendid rant nails the worse of the things that no conscientious fanwriter would have let pass (Have the entire plot of your book depend on the idea that a historian, at Oxford University, whose specialist period is the Second World War, is completely unfamiliar with the names ‘Bletchley Park’ and ‘Alan Turing’.)
Wrong Questions suggests that it may be: the worst best novel Hugo choice ever.
However, in other Hugo news, congratulations to Claire Brialey for being named best fanwriter (and keeping it in the Brit family).
This entry was originally posted at http://inamac.dreamwidth.org/12773.html. You may comment here or there (or not).