Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:47:55 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>, <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: BSFA Awards
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> ekovar at panix.com 01/23/08 1:29 PM >>>
>Michael Walsh wrote:
>> That's the British SF Association.
>>
>> http://www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa/website/awardscurrentsl.aspx
>>
>> What I find interesting is "BSFA Fiftieth Anniversary Award: Best
>Novel
>> of 1958" and what's listed.
>
>Elaborate?

By interesting, having survived 50 years, and still considered worth
reading.  I wonder how many of the Hugo/Nebula nominees from the last
decade or so will stand up decades hence.

At this point I think one can safefly say that most of the Hugo/Nebula
fiction nominees from 40 years ago are still worth reading.  Here's a
list of the 1969 Hugo nominees:
<http://locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Hugo1969.html> and the Nebs for the
same time period: <http://locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Nebula1969.html>.

Admitedly I'm probably looking back at 4 decades with memories
encrusted with "Gosh Wow" fondness.

re the BSFA list: Blish's "Triumph of Time" is in the "Cities in
Flight" omnibus.  And the Budrys novel is OP, but also worth tracking
down.

mjw