Indifference

[jhetley]

Received the Nebula Awards preliminary ballot in today's mail, being as I am a card-carrying* member of the SFWA.  Glanced over it, and realized I haven't read a single item on the ballot.  In a few cases on the novel list, I had the book in hand and lost interest after the first few pages.  In other cases, the book never showed up in our library, the source of most of my reading.  And I don't subscribe to magazines, to read the shorter-length entries.

Guess I won't bother to vote this year.

Wouldn't be the first time that a novel won, that didn't interest me enough to finish reading.

*Damned if I know why I put that in my wallet . . .

Comments

[pernishus.livejournal.com]

I've always been curious about writers' organizations: International PEN, the Soviet Writers' Union, the Canadian Federation of Poets, the SFWA... that, and committees/organizations that award prizes -- especially the ones that involve just a trophy and a pat on the back rather than substantial amounts of cash -- although the latter, too, are interesting.

Anyhow, I expect they are rather more interesting being looked at from outside of than being experienced from within...

[txtriffidranch.livejournal.com]

A few days back, SciFiWire had a little article on exactly what it would cost to buy the votes for a Hugo Award, and I noted that buying a Hugo is almost as ridiculous as buying a Golden Raspberry. I take that back: it's as stupid and pointless as buying a Saturn Award. (I still remember the shrieking and howling from the old-timers about the 1997 Hugo presentation, where the vast majority of attendees were Texas fans who were there to see Joe Straczynski win his Hugo for Babylon 5, and who promptly left the moment he won. In retrospect, I couldn't blame them: they had no reason to read any of the books or magazines on the rest of the Hugo ballot, and they sure as hell weren't being given guides by anyone other than the crew at Locus. And who, other than wannabe writers, wastes their time with Locus?)