I still don't get it

[redbird]

I picked up a copy of M. John Harrison's novel Light because it was a Tiptree winner (the year before I was on the jury). I not only didn't like the book, I couldn't see why it won the Tiptree.

Prompted by rysmiel's review of the book, I finally got around to seeing what that year's jury said about it. I still don't get it. Partly I don't see what they saw in the book, and partly I don't agree that what they saw explores or expands gender.

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[drcpunk.livejournal.com]

mnemex and I are on the Mythopoeic committee -- we're both on the one for adult fiction, and he's also on the one for children's. And sometimes, one or both of us don't get it.

Neither of us got why Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye won the year it did. We both put No Award higher. We talked with Alexei Kondratiev, and I understand better what people think they saw -- but, though I have a great deal of respect for Alexei, I have to disagree with him on this one.

This past year, I think Robin McKinley's Sunshine should not have won. I think it was a good read, but not something that should have been up for Mythopoeic. It happens.