(urth) George R. R. Martin on Gene Wolfe

[Marc Aramini]

One thing that kind of confuses me is the idea of "action" and popularity.
Some really popular writers bore me to tears (King, Vinge bores me a little
(wheel of time though? Sweet lord ...)) in a way that guys like Faulkner
don't bore me because they are doing interesting things with the language.
I see no correlation between exciting action plots and popularity in
general ...
On Apr 28, 2015 10:21 AM, "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <danldo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Of course the Hugos are a popularity contest; they are a fan-based award.
> Nonetheless, they have a history of picking pretty good (though not
> necessarily the "best") book on a year-by-year basis.
>
> Yep, a Harry Potter book won, and beat a second-rate GRRM book. So? The HP
> books are actually damn fine books.
>
> (Actually, Vinge has won *five* times.)
>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Charles Gillingham <
> charlesgillingham at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This "controversy" bores me. The Hugo's are a popularity contest, nothing
>> more. Even though I don't think GRRM is that great of a writer, *Storm of
>> Swords* lost to a Harry Potter book!
>>
>> Again, too bored to look into this on my own. I would like to know when
>> the Puppies say the awards became rigged. Vernor Vinge has own three times,
>> and he's a super right wing stateless capitalist! But its fair to say there
>> might be collusion going on. I don't want to drag us down into unproductive
>> ideological "debates", but there is a culture war going on right now. Both
>> sides band together to raid polls or websites and what not all the time.
>> And this stupid meme of "don't real straight white male authors for a year"
>> might be evidence that there was prior collusion the Hugo's. So collusion
>> counters collusion, more people pay attention to sci fi, everyone and no
>> one wins.
>>
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