And firthermore, with respect to Worldcon, this year I'm not a nominator but I'm a voter.
Voting bugged me in the prior Worldcons I attended. I found myself voting for an author -- not because I liked her work, which was full of people grimacing really hard while doing psionics, which is one of my pet peeves -- but because I was taking her side in a beef she had with someone else long ago.
And I wanted to make nice with the science fiction community so I went for the popularity vote. I'm still annoyed with myself over that. A lot of people sincerely enjoyed the book but I was voting for it more out of interpersonal politics than literary merit.
This year I'm voting and I'll post reviews. I doubt if any of it's better than either KPop Demon Hunters or Dungeon Crawler Carl, but I'll give it a chance, and without any attempts at winning hearts or going for the popular choice.
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