Jo Walton ([info]papersky) wrote,
@ 2007-07-09 11:06:00
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I thought you might be interested to know
That the Campbell Memorial Awards was won by Ben Bova's Titan, with James Morrow's brilliant The Last Witchfinder in second place, and Farthing came in joint-third neck-and-neck with Peter Watts's Blindsight.

Farthing awards form is presently:

1 win (Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award)
2 losses (Nebula and Locus)
1 show (Campbell Memorial Joint-Third)
2 still waiting (Sidewise and Quill).

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[info]autopope
2007-07-09 03:13 pm UTC (link)
Thanks for keeping us updated! (Nobody ever tells me these things ...)

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[info]james_nicoll
2007-07-09 03:21 pm UTC (link)
[T]he Campbell Memorial Awards was won by Ben Bova's Titan.

Huh, Titan. Must have been a weak list.

(checks who was on the list of nominees)

My lawyer informs me that my response to the committee choice would be considered libel.

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[info]autopope
2007-07-09 03:41 pm UTC (link)
The phrase "what were they on?" springs to mind. (And it would still spring to mind were I to recuse myself from the list.)

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[info]bellinghman
2007-07-09 03:59 pm UTC (link)
I'll do it for you, then.

What were they on? Unless Bova has suddenly undergone a late career sea-change, he's not a novelist I'd ever have considered award-worthy. I'll admit I've not read this one, but then I've not bothered checking out the Orbo perpetual motion machine either. For some things, past experience tells you not to waste effort.

(More succinctly: "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.")

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[info]papersky
2007-07-09 06:13 pm UTC (link)
Millennium and Kinsman were brilliant when I was 12. I've kind of drifted away from reading him in recent years because my tastes have changed away from kind of nuts-and-bolts SF, but I remember him doing what he does very well. I haven't read Titan, but it was clearly what the judges were looking for.

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[info]james_nicoll
2007-07-09 07:23 pm UTC (link)
Considered as a Bova novel, it wasn't very good. He's working in a subgenre that he has almost to himself, though.

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[info]guest_informant
2007-07-09 04:18 pm UTC (link)
Oh yeah.

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[info]perkinwarbeck2
2007-07-09 06:35 pm UTC (link)
As I just said on James's journal, maybe they thought it was a safe choice?

But all the same, what were they on?

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[info]desperance
2007-07-09 03:50 pm UTC (link)
Neck-and-neck with 'Blindsight' is no bad place to be.

And, uh, if the committee had put the two of you neck-and-neck at the top, I think that would have been a more legitimate outcome...

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[info]ianmcdonald
2007-07-09 04:11 pm UTC (link)
damn fine, given the eccentricity of the actual winner. See ya at the Quills? (he he)

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[info]wcg
2007-07-09 04:23 pm UTC (link)
I thought "Place" meant 2nd, and "Show" meant 3rd. So I'd make it one win and one show in horseracing terms.

In any case, congratulations on the nominations yet again. I really think it's those that really mean something. Winning the prize is obviously nice, but being nominated for it is the real hurdle.

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[info]shsilver
2007-07-09 04:25 pm UTC (link)
Having only read three of the nominees (DiChario, McDevitt, Walton), I can't comment on the winner, although I thought the three I read were excellent.

Congratulations for your Show. And best of luck on your outstandings.

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[info]ozarque
2007-07-09 04:26 pm UTC (link)
Congratulations! It seems to me that that's a terrific record. Think how people tend to feel about the authors of books that get all the awards all by themselves and leave nothing for anybody else to win.... Way to go, in my opinion.

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[info]heleninwales
2007-07-09 04:53 pm UTC (link)
Congratulations! Farthing is doing you proud. :)

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[info]antonia_tiger
2007-07-09 06:11 pm UTC (link)
I think that, generally, there's too much luck and politics between a published shortlist and the final winner. Anybody can say that they could have been a contender. You are one.

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[info]sylvia_rachel
2007-07-10 01:02 pm UTC (link)
And so say all of us.

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