[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Nebula awards prelim ballot posted

[Andrew MacIan]

Greetings from Andrew!

Hrm....
--- lupinesque <aiz24 at hotmail.com> wrote:
{snip}
> 
> Looking on this website, I see the Nebula comes from
> the Science 
> Fiction **and Fantasy** Writers of America.
> 

Yep...that's the new-ish name for the group.

> I thought part of the controversy about the Hugo was
> that it was 
> purely for scifi (which one would have to construe
> pretty broadly to 
> encompass HP)? 

Part of the controversy revolved around this very
issue...but the rules for the Hugos specifically
include fantasy as well as 'main-stream' (and the
Goddess and Go donly know what *that* is these days!)
SF.  I guess nobody read the rules thoroughly before
taking pen in hand/keyboard in fingers/foot in mouth.

The substantial argument, presuming there is one, is
that their is a specific award for YA/children's lit
in the competition....and that is only one, beside
taste/artistic merit, that holds any water for me.

Also, as mentioned in a post to John, Hugos are pretty
market sensitive, and that might well have a major
part in this, too.

> It would be ironic if GF won an
> award for which it 
> really should have been ineligible and now doesn't
> even get nominated 
> for the genre to which it undoubtedly belongs.

One real reason that Rowling's not in the Nebula
ballot is that she didn't produce anything last year,
absent her pamphlets.  However, the screenplay wasn't
nominated, either.

> 
> Amy
> who, forced to take only one or the other to that
> mythical desert 
> island, would take The Amber Spyglass 
> 
> . . . but please don't make me choose!

Interesting...I would not have said either one.

Cheers,

Drieux

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