gillpolack @ 2014-05-21T22:05:00

I'm pretty much done with the Hugo reading I promised myself today. Two short works. The first was a CS Lewis re-read, for the Retro Hugos. It is no better and no worse a book than I remember, as a child, but I understand what he was doing a lot better than I did back then. The reason I re-read it was because I was tempted to simply vote for TH White out of pure love, but I thought I might be under-rating Lewis because he was using a bunch of allegory that I certainly didn't understand when I was ten. Now I understand the allegory better I still think White was the best writer in that short list. I might re-read the whole lot for fun, if I have time, but I have enough on my plate right now and I've settled the one outstanding question.

The other work was by Vox Day. What the complaining by all and sundry hadn't managed to communicate to me is that the novella managed to be both dull and derivative. It was very calming. Just what I needed tonight, in fact.

For my next trick, I shall do some work.