Rocket statuette envy?
Sep. 10th, 2013 05:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_archfiendDefinitely from the "huh? what?" corner of SF ephemera, to be sure, but this crap is actually starting to wear my ass out.
As quite a few of you know, John Scalzi took home a Best Novel Hugo for Redshirts. A very nice thing for Scalzi, to be sure, but the reaction from some pros was a bit unpleasant.
First off, John Ringo. And then, Dave Freer. Put politics ahead of common sense, much?
As usual, I'm not going to link directly to their comments (which are available via those links I did use, BTW) because I don't want people either (A) punching their monitors out of frustration with the start of yet another pointless feud among SF pros or (B) turning their computers off to do something more constructive like removing belly button lint instead. Priorities, people, priorities.
BTW, I also wager that at least one pro writer who also blogs will publicly lose his shit over this concept, as relatively innocuous as it seems. It's just the mood of the room these days, IMHO.
As quite a few of you know, John Scalzi took home a Best Novel Hugo for Redshirts. A very nice thing for Scalzi, to be sure, but the reaction from some pros was a bit unpleasant.
First off, John Ringo. And then, Dave Freer. Put politics ahead of common sense, much?
As usual, I'm not going to link directly to their comments (which are available via those links I did use, BTW) because I don't want people either (A) punching their monitors out of frustration with the start of yet another pointless feud among SF pros or (B) turning their computers off to do something more constructive like removing belly button lint instead. Priorities, people, priorities.
BTW, I also wager that at least one pro writer who also blogs will publicly lose his shit over this concept, as relatively innocuous as it seems. It's just the mood of the room these days, IMHO.
