Re: Fantasy equivalent to the Hugo?

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 16:55:11 +0000 (UTC), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John M.
Gamble) wrote:

>The Hugo and Nebula awards include fantasy, but *in general*
>fantasy tends to get short shrift in the voting, which i
>suspect is why the WFAs were created in the first place.
>(People who wish to whine again about Harry Potter are
>invited to invent their own time-machine and go do it
>thence; HP is a very notable exception to the tendency).

So too is _American Gods_, and many other recent strong contenders
(i.e. Mieville's books) have been fantasy.  

That is to say, while it is indisputably historically true that
fantasies have gotten "short shrift" in the Hugo/Nebula voting, there
are indications that that is changing.

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