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I had never really got in to the meat and bones of the SJW & SadPuppy 'war'. And my heart goes out to those folks who found themselves named on a puppy slate and withdrew from the nomination (such as Annie Bellet and Marko Kloos), those who were on a slate but didn't know what was going on and so lost to "no award", and to those folks who would have been on the Hugo shortlist this year if not for a bunch of dipshits who decided that only people they approved of should be allowed to compete in the beauty pageant. The problem is, the Hugos aren't an election, they're a beauty pageant. Pretty neat, huh? Until, that is, the broader electorate go into the voting booth and say "no way!" By analogy, imagine if members of the Tea Party packed the US republican party primary with their candidates, forcing a choice between Tea Party candidate A and Tea Party candidate B on the Republican party, so that the Republicans run a Tea Party candidate for president.
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They packed the shortlists with their candidates but didn't understand that the actual voters (a much larger cohort than the folks who nominate works earlier in the year) are free to say "all of these things suck: we're not having any of it". They didn't seem to realize that "No Award" was always an option on the Hugos. I've been seeing a lot of disbelief and anger among the puppies (and gamergaters-there seems to be about a 90% overlap) on twitter in the past 12 hours.
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Martin for talking sense, keeping a level head while everyone was running around shrieking with their hair or beard (sometimes both) on fire), and for salving the burn of injustice with the Alfie awards at his memorable after-party. I'm still at the worldcon, so too busy to blog regularly won't be home until the back end of the week.īut for now, if you want to know what the sound and fury over the Hugo awards was all about, you could do worse than read this WIRED article, Who Won Science Fiction's Hugo Awards and why it Matters (which gives a pretty good view of the social media context), and if you're a glutton for punishment File 770 has kept track of everything ( warning: over a million words of reportage on the whole debacle).Īlso, props to George R.