Awards - fast so gut wie Listen, für uns Listenfetischisten. Einer der abstrusesten Awards: der Bad Sex in Fiction Award. Der Gewinner 2001 hieß Christopher Hart und fabrizerte in seinem Werk “Rescue Me” die folgende güldene Textstelle, die ihn zum würdigen Sieger machte:

Her hand is moving away from my knee and heading north. Heading unnervingly and with a steely will towards the pole … Ever northward moves her hand, while she smiles languorously at my right ear. And when she reaches the north pole, I think in wonder and terror — she will surely want to pitch her tent.

2002 konnte Wendy Perriam mit ihrem Roman “Tread Softly” den Preis für sich gewinnen. Auch sie hats wirklich drauf:

Weirdly, he was clad in pin-stripes at the same time as being naked. Pin-stripes were erotic, the uniform of fathers, two-dimensional fathers. Even Mr. Hughes’s penis had a seductive pin-striped foreskin. [story]