Slashdot was the first site I saw to point out that JK Rowling won this year’s Hugo for best science fiction novel for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
I wouldn’t have been surprised if Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone had won a Hugo a few years ago, but Goblet of Fire is not only inferior to the other books nominated, but its inferior to Rowling’s other books.
In fact, the one thing Rowling has in common with the folks who write genre fiction series is that her books are getting more bloated and less interesting with every passing book (remember Goblet of Fire was so bloated, that everyone in the process missed an obvious inconsistency between it and a previous book in the series until after the huge worldwide launch of the book). Halfway through Goblet I thought I was reading a Robert Jordan novel.