A follow up today as the seventh book, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” won the 2008 Andre Norton Award at the Annual Nebula Awards Ceremony which took place in Austin, Texas this past weekend. As we first told you previously, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America’s Nebula Awards had nominated the seventh book in author J. K. Rowling’s series in this category which recognizes ‘outstanding science fiction and fantasy novels that are written for the young adult market.’ The SFWA awards honors to novels, novellas, novelettes, scripts, and short stories that their voters have named the best of the year.
The award could not have gone to a better, more worthy book! Jo Rowling, once again, shows her eloquence and I, too, hope it wins every award it can!
JKR is a phenom!
One of the highest honors in the genre, and I can’t think of any other book this year in the YA category that deserves it more, and I’m not just saying that as a fan. I’m actually saying this as a literary expert. “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, as a book unto itself (and you must look at it that way), was excellently written and displays enough literary art to solidify its place in literary history for years to come. The highest congrats to J.K. Rowling.
Great. Glad Deathly Hallows got an award. Deserves it.
But c’mon, where’s the interesting news lately? Sure, the RDR vs. WB/J.K. Rowling case is something to read up on; great, Half Blood Prince is still being worked on; fantastic, Deathly Hallows has won an important, outstanding award. But where is the magic of Harry Potter news anymore? Not at all blaming Leaky, that would be ridiculous. Leaky reports the news they find. But there just doesn’t seem to be that much news anymore!!! I want to hear thing that’ll bring up speculation but not end up making everyone sad like the Lexicon case is doing. I want to hear news that makes me go, “Oh, yeah, this fandom is totally worth the hours of time I spend on it!” I just don’t feel that anymore.
I wish something would appear in the news that is interesting, fun, and gets everyone excited like no one seems to be anymore.
I know what you mean, Jenny. The thing is that Jo is done writing. So there aren’t any more leaks about plot or anything to stir people up. There’s movie news, but at most it’s a casting news or otherwise a leak about something that will or won’t be in the film. And that sort of news I don’t really want. Jo-controlled plot leaks about upcoming books is one thing, because we can speculate about something no one knows, but film plot leaks don’t stir up speculation for anyone who has read the books. So it’s just a sad part of the way things are now.
Sorry for the off-topic comment, but what the heck happened to Pottercast 149? I saw its news post last night then it disapeared and it’s not up or anything… What happened?
I’ve been wondering what’s happened to PotterCast this week as well, although I didn’t see it go up last night like you did. Hmm, I wonder what’s going on?
I really liked Deathly Hallows. Congratulations to Jo, it is one of the highest honors! She’s in good company, Orson Scott Card has won this in the past, too.
Now that is one grand award to win. Sometimes, I had wonder if HP books are winning awards because of its large fan base shamelessly multi clicking on the online votes etc but this highly prestigious award confirms what most of us suspected…that Deathly Hallows is brilliant! he he. I am assuming that this is voted by a panel of judges, though, right?
And strange indeed about PotterCast #149…the plot thickens…mmm….You know, I think we are so hard up for an intriguing story, arent we? Jo, write another book now before we get delirious and believe in an imminent alien invasion, or something…
Awesome! I hope it wins every award it can! Go JKR!