Oct 132016
 

Aged pharmaceuticals floor model Bob Dylan was, rather oddly, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature today. Eh, whatever… it’s not like it’s one of the good Nobel Prizes like Physics or Chemistry. Like the “Peace” prize, it’s an exercise in… well, let’s let this tweet from the author of “Trainspotting” finish the thought:

Other authors weighed in:

Heh.

Personally, I can’t say as I’m bothered at all. Look at the list of Nobel Prize/Literature laureates. Who *don’t* you see? Heinlein. Asimov. Leinster. Clarke. Niven. Pournelle. Smith (L. Neill). Brin. Robinson. Steele. Basically, *all* of science fiction. If your prize for literature ignores the most important genre of literature, obviously your prize is of little real importance… so awarding it to Bob “Mumbles” Dylan hardly cheapens it any.

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