I usually don't pay any attention to awards, the exception being the Andre Norton, because I made a promise to Andre before she died. Like I said to jemck here, I don't choose my reading according to awards. Actually, I think my extreme skepticism about awards goes back to my childhood library visits, when I discovered that Newbery Award winner! didn't ( Read more... )

But Ursula K. Le Guin, who has won awards, and judged them (with increasing dismay), has some observations to make that pretty much jive with mine. As always, she says it better.

Heading on down in a few hours, here ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about the recent uproar, and though not one single person (surprise!) has asked, "And what do you think, Sherwood Smith?" I wanted to say something, I guess in part because I was tangentially connected to some of the sparks that flew up from the long-glowing bed of embers, and partly because we are primates who congregate ( Read more... )