Hugo and John W. Campbell Nominations and Regender.com

[pegkerr]

I've been missing vast swathes of my friends list; it's a combination of busyness (all that dojo cleaning) and other life stuff that's been going on--please be aware that it's not personal, and I don't mean to snub anyone. Anyway, I just ran across the discussion over the 2007 Hugo and John W. Campbell finalist list. Congrats to everyone on the list, etc., etc., but as has been pointed out, the list (along with all the other major sf/fantasy award finalist lists this year) is very embarassing in one respect: there is only ONE woman's name on the list, naominovik, for His Majesty's Dragon (which is an excellent book, by the way, very deserving of the nomination, and you all should read it). Anyway, in all the discussion, sdn cleverly ran the 2006 Hugo nomination list through a website called Regender.com and came up with this. Interesting food for thought, no?

It's fun to run a lot of websites through Regender.com. Like the first chapter of Genesis, or Google News. Or this Livejournal. Apparently, in another life, I am Peter, married to Robin, and with two sons, Dennis and Frank. Who knew?

Comments

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

I am halfway through His Majesty's Dragon thanks to LJ recommendations from you and from my daughter. I am wondering whether to rush off to the library this afternoon and acquire the second one, in case someone might borrow it before I finish this one.

[rabican.livejournal.com]

Do it! Trust me, this is one of those series where you're going to want to launch straight into the next one as soon as you finish the first.