Harry Potter Wins Hugo

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday September 3, 2001 @03:35AM from the now-thats-a-little-strange dept.

H.I. McDonnough writes "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling has won the Hugo for best novel. I'll refrain from commenting." I read the 2nd and 3rd Harry Potter books last week and they are just wonderful stories. I'm looking forward to reading this one. But a Hugo for SciFi Achievement? I have a hard time calling Potter stories Sci-Fi. But then again, since SF and Fantasy are often so blurred together, it probably is worth it. And anything that can get kids to read (or for that matter, get me to read a dead-tree version of anything) is good by me. And if you haven't read any Harry Potter books, then you aren't qualified to complain ;)

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Hugo just inverted Clarke's assumption by Pac · 2001-09-03 03:54 · Score: 5, Funny

Any suficient advanced magic is indistinguishable
from technology
Nevertheless, by uriyan · 2001-09-03 04:25 · Score: 3, Funny

Three books went into /dev/null
Seven were lost due to a fire
Nine were left inside a hole
One remains to rule them all

One book that bests them all
One book to grind them,
One book will stay when most are sold,
And in oblivion bind them.