The Forever Machine

I think They'd Rather be Right was a pretty controversial Hugo win at the time, and it has since earned a reputation as one of the weakest Hugo award winners. It hasn't aged well at all, and many of its ideas about the future are entertainingly wrong. The novel also carries some pretty blatant biases that I don't agree with, which I find kind of ironic in a book that is about the need for humanity to throw off their prejudices and preconceptions. I liked how they ended up dealing with Bossy, though, and parts of the story were pretty (unitentionally, I think) funny. Still, it was interesting to see what fans voted for as the best novel written in 1954. I would only recommend this one to other Hugo-winner completionists.

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