I think the Sad Pups are way off base, but I can't really muster much outrage when they're making a mockery of a process that needed significant overhauling anyway - at least in my view. I may be in the minority, but when Graveyard Book beat Anathem, Saturn's Children, and Little Brother, I lost confidence in it. Graveyard Book was fun, but I have difficulty seeing it competing as a novel. Then again, I remember laughing when they had to add a YA category to keep Harry Potter from beating all those hard SF novels, so swings and roundabouts.
I think the Sad Pups are way off base, but I can't really muster much outrage when they're making a mockery of a process that needed significant overhauling anyway - at least in my view. I may be in the minority, but when Graveyard Book beat Anathem, Saturn's Children, and Little Brother, I lost confidence in it. Graveyard Book was fun, but I have difficulty seeing it competing as a novel. Then again, I remember laughing when they had to add a YA category to keep Harry Potter from beating all those hard SF novels, so swings and roundabouts.