Comments | ninebelow: Whither The Line Of Truth?

ninebelow

Whither The Line Of Truth?

Feb 24, 2006 14:31

Inspired by coalescent and talvalin:

Poll

good or bad, ken macleod, bsfa award, geoff ryman, charles stross, jon courteney grimwood, polls, sf, justina robson, books

Comments 31

itchyfidget February 24 2006, 14:35:41 UTC

I have been naughty and marked authors I haven't read or know nothing about as BAD. So, most of them, then.

ninebelow February 24 2006, 14:38:35 UTC

I have been naughty

That's not naughty. Just ignorant :p

Liz's answer to the final question, on the other hand...

itchyfidget February 24 2006, 14:39:50 UTC

She's now in a slightly more sizeable minority of two.

despotliz February 24 2006, 14:50:01 UTC

Well, I voted GOOD for all the others, and I was feeling contrary.

Thread 6

lamentables February 24 2006, 14:39:14 UTC

If I could do polls on my live journal, I'd do one about being able to spell Jon Courtenay Grimwood :)

(And that's a dig at any number of people.)

ninebelow February 24 2006, 14:41:28 UTC

:) It is a cut and paste from here:

http://www.fpigraphics.co.uk/blogger/2006/01/bsfa-shortlist.html

lamentables February 24 2006, 14:45:21 UTC

That's no excuse.
And I see that they've misspelled 9tail Fox there, too :)

immortalradical February 24 2006, 18:25:05 UTC

That's okay. So mind-numbed and apathetic were the copy-editors and proofreaders of 9tail Fox, they didn't bother to spell quite a few words correctly, either.

coalescent February 24 2006, 15:00:23 UTC

It is astonishing to me how many otherwise sane people are wrongheaded about JCG.

despotliz February 24 2006, 15:05:56 UTC

But his head is so shiny! How can that not be GOOD?

coalescent February 24 2006, 15:08:52 UTC

What is it with you and shiny heads?

coalescent February 24 2006, 15:10:08 UTC

I can't believe I typed that. In my defence, I was thinking of this.

Thread 5

celestialweasel February 24 2006, 15:25:25 UTC

253, The Child Garden GOOD!
Air VERY VERY VERY VERY BAD! BEYOND EXCRUCIATING!

coalescent February 24 2006, 15:27:51 UTC

Why?

celestialweasel February 24 2006, 16:11:54 UTC

I thought the 'noble natives vs. the march of progress' was trite, the descriptions of sex plain embarassing (he should obviously not write about straight sex), and the 'Micro$oft Sux' stuff the sort of thing I would expect from Slashdot, not Ryman.

It was hard to keep in mind when I was reading it than it was Ryman, I kept mentally thinking Doctorow or some other Boing-Boing style person who has somehow got a novel published.

blonde222 February 24 2006, 15:38:34 UTC

what if you've never heard of ANY of these?

ninebelow February 24 2006, 15:45:56 UTC

You just follow your heart.

There needs to be a "rules to GOOD or BAD" webpage somewhere. here maybe.

coalescent February 24 2006, 15:52:39 UTC

Ta-da!