[the_old_crowd] Re: Paging Steve, or anybody else: HP Awards?

[Eileen Rebstock]

The Hugo isn't just SF anymore. It's been for Fantasy too for quite a
long time. Didn't Lois McMaster Bujold win it a couple years back for
her fantasy novel "Paladin of Souls?"

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> --- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, silmariel <silmariel at ...> wrote:
> >
> > PS, September 2001: the fourth book in the series, Harry Potter and
the
> Goblet
> > of Fire, received one of the most hyped launches of all time in July
> 2000,
> > and won the 2001 Hugo for Best Novel in a contest where the authors
were
> two
> > Scots, two Canadians and an American.>>
> >
> > You'll have to contrast the information, but there you have it.
> >
> 
> Which is a bit odd - the Hugo is an SF award. The convention was more
than
> a
> bit pissed off that she never even asked anyone to attend and pick up
the
> award
> for her - it was considered to be very bad manners; downright
insulting,
> in fact.
> (The short list - five novels - is published months in advance.)
> 
> Strangely enough, she's never won the equivalent World Fantasy Award.
> Next question:
> is Harry Potter Science Fiction?
> Ans. - No.
> So what the hell....?
> 
> Kneasy
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