What’s The Matter With The Hugo Shortlist?
The five books chosen for the 2009 Hugo Awards shortlist are largely mediocre, insists up-and-coming author Adam Roberts. But the interesting part isn’t his critiques of Gaiman, Doctorow, Stross, and Scalzi, it’s his ideas of what make a great novel. The Hugos, of course, are the fan-voted awards, and anybody who attended last year’s WorldCon…
