The Dumbies - Book Nominations

The books up for Dumbie nomination are:

- River of Gods
- Accelerando
- The Time Travellers Wife
- The Brief History Of The Dead
- Gridlinked
- Singularity Sky
- Ender's Game
- Light
- Flowers For Algernon

The Dumbies have neatly circumvented the raging "should the Hugos split Fantasy and SF" debate, by completely excluding all Fantasy novels. This is despite a large proportion of the Dumbie's judge's years being spent reading Fantasy (mainly Harry Potter 6 and the never ending but quite excellent Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell). Once again the judges are disappointed at how few books they have read looking back at the year (and are sure that they've forgot some), but the afore mentioned large fantasy books did eat up some time. The much anticipated conclusion to The Baroque Cycle has been put on hold until next year, after some much needed "thin" books.