You write an ambitious alternate time-track police procedural, you get noticed...particularly when, unlike many/most of your contemporaries, you don't make a point of either being ignorant about, or catering to others' ignorance about, various fields of fiction...good for him. I almost picked it up for my Alaska-loving sf-reading father, but wasn't sure it was quite worth the gamble thus...but might as well do so, now.
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Is there any genre that Chabon won't be nominated in?
I guess I should read that book.
You write an ambitious alternate time-track police procedural, you get noticed...particularly when, unlike many/most of your contemporaries, you don't make a point of either being ignorant about, or catering to others' ignorance about, various fields of fiction...good for him. I almost picked it up for my Alaska-loving sf-reading father, but wasn't sure it was quite worth the gamble thus...but might as well do so, now.
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