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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
If it's unfixable (or has no desire to BE fixed), then it's time for fandom to shift the weight of its regard elsewhere.
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You don't teach an old dog new tricks; you're better off raising a new, happy puppy.
I'd recommend a new Award--call it, the NoVa (fully aware of what it means in spanish)--and dish out a dozen of them by sub-genre, the way the Oscars do.
18 month eligibility window.
One for Space Opera, one for Superhero prose, one for poetry; one for light/humor fantasy, one for adventure SF, one for Hard SF; one for urban fantasy, one for steampunk, alternate history, technothriller, epic fantasy, and Literary SF, one for comic/graphic novel, one for TV, another for movie, animated separate from live action... Even paranormal romance and Young Adult and new adult or whatever. Throw in for cross-genre SF along the way. Make the BPHs spread the money...
The field is big, the field is broad...
Plenty of room for everybody to be special...
...and go back to reading or writing instead of whinging.