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sheila said:

Best SFF Novels of the Decade Readers Poll RESULTS

Blindsight appreciation will be posted on 3/3.

Tor made the raw data available in google docs if anyone wants to play.

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IMHO, for all its flaws, Perdido Street Station was a better novel than Old Man's War, and yet OMW gets the top spot and PSS the tenth.  Hm.  Clearly the SFF reading, tor-website-perusing public don't share my humble opinions of literature.  :)

Post edited 12:37 pm – March 4, 2011 by Hljothlegur

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Okay, Peter's friend Elizabeth Bear lauds Blindsight on the Tor site:

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/…..blindsight

and she includes this sentence:

But he’s also a poet—a damned fine writer on a sentence level, who can make you feel the blank Lovecraftian indifference of the sea floor or of interplanetary space with the same ease facility with which he can pen an absolutely breathtaking passage of description.

 

First off, that is pure squee.  Second off, haha, someone agrees with me about the poetry part. 

See, I was not just offering blind fannish assessment of his writing as poetry, I was prefiguring a literary review by a legitiimate published author of Watts' work.  Vindication!