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Here! I have rarely read more than one or two of the mentioned books for any given year, but they're still very interesting.
They also discuss the Nebulas, and I will be interested to see what she says when she gets to 1988, because I just realized that Bujold's worst book, Falling Free, won the Nebula that year.
WHY DID THAT HAPPEN
I know I'm probably too harsh on Bujold sometimes - but Falling Free was not a good book. I mean, this is objectively so; it's actually something you can test using a couple drops of bromothymol blue, if you don't mind staining your book puce. Did people feel they'd slighted her in some previous year? What happened there?
And I just looked at Wikipedia, and - come on, The Satanic Verses came out in '88. I guess if they were going to pretend Midnight's Children didn't count, they were going to do the same for The Satanic Verses, but geez. (Not to suggest that TSV is better than MC; it's not.)
They also discuss the Nebulas, and I will be interested to see what she says when she gets to 1988, because I just realized that Bujold's worst book, Falling Free, won the Nebula that year.
WHY DID THAT HAPPEN
I know I'm probably too harsh on Bujold sometimes - but Falling Free was not a good book. I mean, this is objectively so; it's actually something you can test using a couple drops of bromothymol blue, if you don't mind staining your book puce. Did people feel they'd slighted her in some previous year? What happened there?
And I just looked at Wikipedia, and - come on, The Satanic Verses came out in '88. I guess if they were going to pretend Midnight's Children didn't count, they were going to do the same for The Satanic Verses, but geez. (Not to suggest that TSV is better than MC; it's not.)
