tag:dreamwidth.org,2017-01-13:2749664 You are coming to a sad realization. Cancel or allow? The Wayne 2017-08-04T06:24:24Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2017-01-13:2749664:1022229 2017-08-04T06:24:24Z 2017-08-04T06:24:24Z public 3 Huh. I'm not quite sure why. I don't recall signing up for such a thing, and I certainly don't have a membership.<br /><br />There's one big difference between the DCA and the Hugos: the latter provides you with a copy of all of the material nominated because you have to pay for at least a sustaining membership to WorldCon. Reading through the ballot, I recognize maybe 4-5 novels, no comics except for the character titles: a lot of the stuff is flat-out foreign to me. I recognize the novels only because they were also nominated for Hugos or their by John Scalzi or Cory Doctorow. And I don't understand their process as the Doctorow book was definitely released in '17.<br /><br />I don't think I'm going to bother voting. There's only three or four categories that I could vote in, in that I actually recognize titles, but I haven't read all of the submitted books and therefore I don't think I could offer a reasoned opinion. It would just be "I read this one book or I like this one author, and even though I haven't read any of the others, they're all rubbish!" Movies are about the only category that I could vote and would feel that I could argue my vote in.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=thewayne&ditemid=1022229" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments