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Old 12-09-2011, 09:59 AM   #1
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It actually only won the Nebula; something else got the Hugo. And it's the controversial "Mormon missionary space whale rape" story.

But thanks for the heads up. I wasn't aware the author had taken it off permafreebie status.
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It actually only won the Nebula; something else got the Hugo. And it's the controversial "Mormon missionary space whale rape" story.
Ah, I've read that one already when it was published in Analog.
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Needs coupon code: NG36K.

I have to be careful with those; I tend to put ebooks in my Smashwords cart for weeks until I get around to buying them. When there's something with a coupon code, I have to buy those right away, and may not want to buy everything else in the cart. Since there's no wishlist, I have to remember what else I wanted to pick up when I've got money for it. (Or make a list, remove items, get couponed items, re-add everything else.)
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And it's the controversial "Mormon missionary space whale rape" story.
I thought the story was OK, but what was controversial about it?
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It actually only won the Nebula; something else got the Hugo. And it's the controversial "Mormon missionary space whale rape" story.

But thanks for the heads up. I wasn't aware the author had taken it off permafreebie status.
Yes, it is actually a Nebula award. And it in principle costs $0,99 (but still free is a better deal). I don't know if it's controversial, because I haven't read it, but I stumbled upon the coupon and downloaded it, expecting to be of some quality as it is an award winner.
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I thought the story was OK, but what was controversial about it?
Apparently there was a moderate-sized fight and some finger-pointing about whether or not it was really Nebula-worthy or it just got the nom and the votes because Stone was a member of a particular writing group which had a lot of other also-SFWA members who may or may not have been boosting each others' work more out of a feeling of shared fellowship than perceived merit.
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Apparently there was a moderate-sized fight and some finger-pointing about whether or not it was really Nebula-worthy or it just got the nom and the votes because Stone was a member of a particular writing group which had a lot of other also-SFWA members who may or may not have been boosting each others' work more out of a feeling of shared fellowship than perceived merit.
Thanks! So the controversy had nothing to do with content of the story itself, then? That would explain why I was unaware of it.

I made the mistake of assuming the controversy had to do something with "Mormon missionary space whale rape."
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Thanks! So the controversy had nothing to do with content of the story itself, then?
Well, besides the fact that it's really kind of surprisingly mediocre for a major award-winner, which was kind of what the kerfuffle was partly about. (But then, it managed to be just slightly less mediocre than the stories that I voted in 5th+ place behind it in the Hugos; methinks 2010 was not that great a year for shorter-form fiction if those really were the best they could scrape up.)

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I made the mistake of assuming the controversy had to do something with "Mormon missionary space whale rape."
I think that sort of thing's just par for the course these days. We're just lucky it's not a "post-apocalyptic steampunk telepathic AI Mormon missionary emotionally-bonded to a cyborg zombie space whale rape" story. Though IMHO, that would have made it a lot more interesting, even if the annoyingly smug
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aspect which made me when I originally read it stayed in place.
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methinks 2010 was not that great a year for shorter-form fiction if those really were the best they could scrape up.
I don't know... I was rather of fond of de Bodard's "The Jaguar House, in Shadow."
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I don't know... I was rather of fond of de Bodard's "The Jaguar House, in Shadow."
That was a nice enough story with a pleasantly unusual setting, and I think I gave it 3rd place in the ranked voting.

But the 2009 Hugo packet was a lot stronger in the novelette department, IMHO, and had Peter Watts' visceral and insightful The Island (free ePub on his website), a funny Charles Stross Laundry story, a really imaginative Eugie Foster story, and some well-written if not all that imaginative stuff from Rachel Swirsky and Paul Cornell.

Only one dud in the lot, so 2010 just seemed a lot weaker by comparison because basically almost all the stories were merely okay to read, and to my reading fell well short of "this will stand the test of time" potentially great.
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It actually only won the Nebula; something else got the Hugo. And it's the controversial "Mormon missionary space whale rape" story.

But thanks for the heads up. I wasn't aware the author had taken it off permafreebie status.
What!?! ANOTHER "Mormon missionary space whale rape" story?
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