- It’s the week after Worldcon, so of course there has been discussion about Hugo voting trends, how the awards should be reformed, and what the value of awards is, anyway. And as a result of the Best Editor split, there’s now a wiki of sf editors.
- But this year that’s been somewhat eclipsed by what Harlan Ellison did; David Moles has the essential roundup of who said what. The best posts you might not have seen yet are by Alan DeNiro, Meghan McCarron and Ben Rosenbaum. The most impressive train-wreck of a conversation (aside, presumably, from whatever’s going on at the SFWA forums) is this one at Ed Champion’s place.
- Young Adult literature seems to have caught the blogosphere zeitgeist, too, from the debate at TEV (which turned into a more general debate about the merits of genre) to two posts at SF Signal to David Moles’ request for YA he should read. (Even Instant Fanzine’s latest discussion is about a YA book.)
Next week: all slipstream until the end. Oh yes.
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In the interests of adding a female viewpoint on the Harlan stuff I really liked this initial thought and takedown of the latest stuff, from someone who was there and knows Connie’s daughter.
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Good posts, both (I assume this is the second one you meant). There are also plenty of other female viewpoints linked from Moles’ post.
Boy, the TEV and RotR discussions make for an interesting pair. Both start off with a roughly equivalent level of wrong-headedness (in fact, I’d say Mark Savras started out more wrong-headed than Ed Champion) and both involve some pretty smart and sensible people who took the blogger’s original (wrong-headed) assertion personally. And yet, in spite of the fact that all of the participants in the TEV thread feel very strongly about their stance and express it with passion, the tone there has remained, for the most part, civil and respectful, whereas the discussion over at Ed’s veered almost immediately into nastiness and then landed in crazy-ville. Maybe Harlan Ellison just has that effect on people.