That's Mr Gernsback to you

[threemonkeys]

The last few days have been lost in a flurry of reading for the Hugos. My votes are now in. Even if I'm not voting, I like to look at award nominations to see what is hot in the genre at the moment. It shouldn't be any surprise that there were some works that just didn't work for me at all this time - I gave up on trying to read some of them. That is to be expected because tastes vary so much. But the positive side which makes the exercise worthwhile is that you get exposure to new authors. Some of which you really connect with and will want to read more of their work. The Campbell award provided a couple of real gems this year. But I won't tell you which ones - given the nature of the awards, you may well pick completely different ones.