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Originally Posted by BoiseShan
I just discovered Connie Willie--via the Doomsday Book. I thoroughly enjoyed it and I'm collecting her other titles.
That said, I find it interesting that so many people didn't like it--simply because it was what I consider a beach book: not to be considered "literature" or a challenging read. And because of its apparent simplicity, I'm surprised to find that it's an award winner.
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Cynical info: the year it was up for a Hugo, it was distributed free at Worldcon; members got a free copy when they showed up and the opportunity to vote for it that weekend.
This doesn't guarantee a win (and it had to get nominated long before that), but it does make it close to guaranteed that the voting pool was at least *familiar* with that book, whereas the other nominees might be ones they'd just heard about or not even that.