A Simple Choice

[ninebelow]

Poll

Comments

[abigail_n]

This rather buys into Roberts's fallacy that SF fandom = Hugo voters. It's possible to love SF fandom while feeling that the Hugo voters are a bunch of imbeciles.

[bohemiancoast]

Historically the Hugo voters have been rather more literate than the readership as a whole. I will smugly note that the shortlist rocks, relatively speaking, whenever the Worldcon is in Britain, though.

[abigail_n]

Historically the Hugo voters have been rather more literate than the readership as a whole

Leaving aside the question of what 'the readership as a whole' means, I have to say that five years of reading the short fiction Hugo nominees leaves me rather doubtful about this statement.

The last UK Worldcon did, however, have a good best novel shortlist.

[secritcrush]

And abysmal novella one, a good novellette list, and a beyond awful short story one where a RESNICK story won.

[peteyoung]

Ditto.

[veggiesu]

You missed the "I'm not part of SF fandom, but am willing to point and laugh at it/them from the outside".

[kalorlo]

x It's just another award and doesn't say much one way or the other.

[ninebelow]

Context.

[ninebelow]

And also.