Re: Fantasy equivalent to the Hugo?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Joe Bernstein  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I acknowledge that if you take the most asinine purists as "much
>disagreement" this is untrue; banning all FTL from science fiction,
>for example, results in massive discrepancies from the rough
>consensus.  But I've experimentally demonstrated in a previous
>edition of this thread (and indeed a previous lal_truckee edition)
>that the *average* book can be readily put into the right pile,
>where "right" means "will be acknowledged as correct by most
>people other than asinine anti-FTL-type purists".

I guess that makes me one o' them thar asinine purists.
I thought that your attempt at experiment demonstration failed
just as miserably as its predecessors.

And the thing is, the fact that we have diametrically opposed 
viewpoints on classifying books doesn't seem to have stopped us
from having enjoyable discussions about them as individual works.

-- 
Ethan A Merritt