Thread: Inaugural Dragon Award winners named
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Old 09-07-2016, 07:58 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
The Campbell award is supposed to be for the latter. Dragons are supposed to highlight what people are reading and *enjoying*. Which the Hugos stopped doing ages sgo.
I've personally found most of the recent Hugos winners enjoyable to read, even if I didn't vote for them, with the exception of Thomas Olde Heuvelt.

From what I've read over at file770.com, the Dragon literary winners were almost entirely the same as Vox Day's picks, and two of the winners were published by him. Coinicidence? Maybe, but awards based on votes from any valid email sound easy to spam. For those not paying attention to the Hugo Award dramas, Vox Day is the leader of the rabid puppy clique which has been trying to sabotage the Hugos with truly substandard nomination slates. It is interesting that several of the Dragon winners basically have fewer and lower ranked reviews at places like Amazon and goodreads than their competitors in their categories. However, the Dragon Awards were poorly publicized, so maybe their authors just had better get out the vote campaigns.

That is not to say that I think all or most of the winners are bad, but I don't expect to care for another heavy handed Catholic theology based story by John C. Wright (whose Hugo nominess I detested) and whose book which won the SF novel category looks to be more like YA Christian fantasy. Likewise, Niemeier's Souldancer is not horror, it's more like epic space fantasy. David Weber likes infodumps too much and needs a good editor, and I'm not going to pick up the 8th book in a series when it's not standalone. I feel the same way about Naomi Novick's Dragon book being the 7th or 8th of a series except I've read most of the series and liked them, so I'll add it to my TBR list. If Nick Cole wasn't published by Vox Day, I'd consider checking it out, but Vox Day's never getting any of my money. Sorry Nick.

Apparently Eric Flint will be involved with the running of next year's awards. He's no fan of slate nominations or slate voting, so I'm interested in seeing what changes there will be to the Dragon nomination and voting process.
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