or some such similar plotlines.īasically, it gets voted on by Guardian readers. Actors seem to get their Oscars not for appearing in popular films that break all box office records but for participating in box-office flops about disabled ethnic minority characters struggling against the unnecessary evils of a society created by stereo-typically stupid-evil white males. Once someone trolls you, you don't suck up to them).Ī similar thing happens in Hollywood. I read based on the pillars of good writing, good characters and good plot-lines.ĪFAIK, our resident Mad Wizard hasn't won even one of those awards (double-checked on Wikipedia), thus suggesting (to me, at least) that the awards are granted based on things other than sales and/or literary skill (and no, this isn't me sucking up. I've generally just ignored them since from what little I've come across, half of it seems to be which agents can brown-nose the best. I've heard of the Hugo Awards and I think I've come across the Nebulae award before. I love to read and I do not let Publisher bias sway me on what I want to read. Hollywood is a social welfare program for those who could or would not hold down a 9 to 5 job by being productive. Or they make a remake which is worse than the original.
They go to the the authors of books for their new movies and then more often than not Hollywood changes the story line and or characters. I do not support the Hollywood crowd either and do not go to movies since Hollywood could not come up with an original story if their life depended on it.
I will give my support by buying those books of (royalties) those authors I like because the story interests me not because some left wing right wing nut job is in charge of Tor, Baen, or any other publishing house. Just like I do not go to any movie based on how many nominations or if it won an Oscar.
I do not buy any book based on who won the Hugo or the Nebula award.
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