Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix2.panix.com!panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: 2024 Hugo Award Winners Emily Tesh Date: 13 Sep 2024 12:33:43 -0000 Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000) Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="panix2.panix.com:166.84.1.2"; logging-data="454"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" Bytes: 1343 In article , Titus G wrote: >On 12/08/24 09:57, James Nicoll wrote: >> Best Novel: Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh (Tordotcom, Orbit UK) >> > >I enjoyed it initially with several complaints but might have thrown it >at the wall about half way through if it hadn't been a Hugo Award >winner. I have not read the other contenders but the standard of >writing, the lack of a science background evident in limited vocabulary >and frequent difficulty to suspend disbelief did not even hint at award >nomination. Read Translation State. It deserved the award in my opinion. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."