Question

[james_davis_nicoll]

Noticed because this mentions me and the review I am going to link to in the next sentence.

This raises an interesting question: what is the worst Nebula-winning novel that you've read?

A list of winners and nominees.

I wonder if we could get Jo Walton to do for the Nebulas what she did for the Hugos?

Comments

[heron61.livejournal.com]

I have two asnwers. Man Plus was trash, I enjoyed it when I read it at age 16, but it was poorly written fun trash (which IME is fairly rare for Pohl, he's normally well better than that). While slightly better written, the true winner of the worst for me would be Dune. I enjoyed it when I read it when I was 11, but I attempted to reread it when I was in my 20s and threw it across the room. It's as deeply sexist as all of the rest of Herbert's work, it's ponderous, dull, massively offensive on several levels, and just plain bad.