In this episode of Critical Friends, the Strange Horizons SFF criticism podcast, Amritesh Mukherjee and Abigail Nussbaum join Dan Hartland to talk about literary awards. Which is you look at a, quote-unquote, “genre book” which has won, in fact, the breathless literary award, the Pulitzer. And they’re not so visible to me because, as a genre reader, there are certain genre books that I’m interested in, certain genre books that I’m less interested in. [Musical sting]Dan Hartland: So you use the word substance—like, a Clarke Award book should have more substance to it. It’s not the first literary award I turn to, but it’s not an award I distrust.