Paging Steve, or anybody else: HP Awards?

[Barry Arrowsmith]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Eileen Rebstock" <erebstock at ...> wrote:
>
> 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?"
> 

Yeah, she did - in 2004.
But she is a recognised SF author; won it 2 (or 3?) times for novels from
the Vorkosigan series, plus (I think) 'Falling Free'. And these cross-over 
authors generally include a few twists that can be interpreted as SF-ish, even
in their fantasy pieces - if you squint hard at twilight.
Not that I've read PoS - wasn't enthralled by the jacket blurb, so I can't give an
informed opinion on it. 

But generally pure fantasy, while it may get a mention, or is even short-listed,
doesn't usually score. 
(For those that are not familiar with the Hugos, the result is decided by a vote
of registered readers, not some panel of the self-selected great and the good (sic) 
and most of the readers register through Locus, the pre-eminent SF magazine, 
which caters mostly for the hard-core SF fan.)

Kneasy