tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26741618.post9129137715814412285..comments2024-02-28T02:22:20.886-08:00Comments on homunculus: None shall have prizesPhilip Ballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09986655706443117158noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26741618.post-89176541706282777532010-10-24T13:00:50.694-07:002010-10-24T13:00:50.694-07:00It's true, prizes can be corrosive to the soul...It's true, prizes can be corrosive to the soul. But this one has, in my experience, none of the bitchiness that lingers over some literary prizes. It's good to see deserving authors (like Nick Lane) get recognition. Ans while it's true that one has to look carefully at the issue of whether sponsorship has string attached, I'm not aware that, when the award was funded by pharmaceutical companies, they exerted the slightest influence on its outcome...Philip Ballhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09986655706443117158noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26741618.post-45737966737714484452010-10-22T05:09:16.187-07:002010-10-22T05:09:16.187-07:00"Are the big pharma or IT companies not so ke...<i>"Are the big pharma or IT companies not so keen, even in these straitened times, to see that conversation happen that they can’t find a bit of spare cash?"</i><br /><br />How ungrateful of them not to feed the mouths that bite their hands.<br /><br />And what you call 'winning', some might call 'promotion'.<br /><br />The integrity of these judged awards, is only as clean as the politics of the judges. Moving from the social engineering agit prop of Marxist-Feminism, to the loving hands of the big corporations, is as the frying pan to the fire.<br /><br />For people to grow as individuals, there should be less 'x-factors' and not more.JimmyGirohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01548795180321590463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26741618.post-37926334908802944222010-10-21T18:34:20.107-07:002010-10-21T18:34:20.107-07:00'Life Ascending' is high on my wish list, ...'Life Ascending' is high on my wish list, but I do have and did enjoy 'Power, Sex, Suicide' quite a bit.<br /><br />I'll be really disappointed if the prize goes under. I've made an effort to read most books on its shortlists for years now and I don't really know where I'd look without it.Gamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16929144832139880834noreply@blogger.com