Awards
Recently a buddy of mine commented that until he started hanging out with me he never knew that there were literary awards. He's not sheltered, nor was he raised in a barn, nor on Mars and only recently been returned to teach us the Martian ways of peace and "grokking."
Anyway, it got me thinking that maybe the world of genre awards are kind of like Employee of the Month awards. They're great, and they acknowledge your good works but the only people who see them are fellow employees. Normally they're tucked away somewhere near the bathrooms, or by the employee break area.
Sciencefictionworld.com has a great guide to previous years genre award winners, be they fantasy or sci-fi, and I encourage you to go take a look.
Let me know what your fave sci-fi or fantasy is in the comments.
