Yay! Still musing on my top ten (how can I just pick ten?!?!) but ... NPR used a panel of "experts" at this point, but nobody's an expert on all speculative fiction. (And also the experts pared down the list to do this.) I don't know if the panel of judges can be blamed for the white maleness of the list -- from what I understand, their job was just to take the full list of nominations and remove anything that didn't fit NPR's criteria. (Also, given the judges, I would be very surprised if they had reduced the percentages of female, POC or non-English-language authors.) That said, I'd be extremely interested in seeing what didn't make the list.
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Date: 2011-08-13 02:01 pm (UTC)Still musing on my top ten (how can I just pick ten?!?!) but ...
NPR used a panel of "experts" at this point, but nobody's an expert on all speculative fiction. (And also the experts pared down the list to do this.)
I don't know if the panel of judges can be blamed for the white maleness of the list -- from what I understand, their job was just to take the full list of nominations and remove anything that didn't fit NPR's criteria. (Also, given the judges, I would be very surprised if they had reduced the percentages of female, POC or non-English-language authors.) That said, I'd be extremely interested in seeing what didn't make the list.