Livre d'Or

Heh. I did think the Torgerson story seemed startlingly old-fashioned, but I suppose that's conservative in a literal sense, nostalgia for being a rich white guy in an unequal society. It's not just old-fashioned in its political assumptions, it's old-fashioned in how it approaches SF, the having no ideas at all, just whizz-bang, seems to date from the time when a lot of SF was about cheap, pulpy stuff marketed to teenagers and casual readers.

Interesting about the Vox Day story. A lot of people have said it's dreadful, a few have said it's quite thought-provoking in spite of the bad Latin and the purple prose and the general awfulness of VD. But in any case, I gave the Torgerson a fair shake (because it was in the same slate as OVA, I had forgotten it was part of the sad puppy thing), and am quite happy voting it below No Award. I don't feel in the least guilty about pre-judging Vox Day's writing without actually reading it.