Piers Plowman and the Hugo Awards
Great, middle-of-the-road take on the Hugos & Sad/Rabid Puppies “controversy”.
Originally posted on Novel Ninja:
When I was studying at Christendom College, I had to read a book called Piers Plowman. It was part of the core curriculum that all students had to study, a set of 24 separate classes (plus the math, science, and language requirements) that comprised the entirety of the freshman and sophomore years, as well as some of the junior year. This might sound a bit heavy, but it was actually very efficient and allowed a lot of information in both the lower and upper courses. All professors knew what their students had covered, and so little to no time was wasted on remedial material. This meant more in-depth study of a type normally seen only in graduate courses. With a few exceptions, we were rarely bored.
Piers Plowman was one of those exceptions. The only reason it isn’t a cure for insomnia is because of the torturous pain we…
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