Okay, so it now seems that we have to address the issue of preconception in critical appraisal. The impetus is Jonathan Jones, a critic for the UK Guardian who wrote a much-derided essay to the effect that he had never read Terry Pratchett but was certain that he was nothing much. Later, in response to […]
Well, that happened. And we should make no mistake what it means, and what it doesn’t mean. It doesn’t mean that the Hugos no longer have any room for just-plain-meat-and-potatoes fun science fiction and fantasy. That kind of material has won plenty of Hugos and will win Hugos again. It doesn’t mean the Hugos no […]