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| Hurricane Hugos |
| 2015-04-30 |
| h/t Instapundit I'm going to warn you up front that this story has a certain "inside baseball" aspect, and if you're not interested in science fiction, science fiction publishing, and the ongoing culture wars, this is probably not going to interest you. Still here? Good. The "Hugos" are widely called the most prestigious awards in the world of science fiction and fantasy publishing. They are awarded every year by a vote of the membership of the World Science Fiction Convention, which SF fans have called "Worldcon" since time immemorial. Starting three years ago, Larry Correia, successful science fiction writer, decided to test his suspicion that the Hugo Awards of the World Science Fiction Society were increasingly being awarded through the action of a small group, and increasingly reflect the tastes of that small group rather than a more general population of science fiction readers. ...Correia's experimental method was to publish a list of suggested nominees for the Hugo Awards that he thought wouldn't otherwise get serious consideration. He repeated the exercise a year ago, and then this year Brad Torgersen continued with a new list of suggested nominees. Only, this year, a lot of those suggested nominees were actually nominated. At which point all hell broke loose. It would take a lot more room than I want to give it to give all the examples, but what was most notable was a sudden outbreak of stories in more mainstream media that probably were best exemplified by the headline in Entertainment Weekly: Hugo Award nominations fall victim to misogynistic, racist voting campaign ...Very very similar articles came out in many different places, all of them nearly simultaneously. It would seem someone hit a nerve. The whole story, you can get more details from Sarah Hoyt's and/or Larry Correia sites, confirms my opinion that left-wing politics are: first & foremost a conspiracy by second rate people (in any area of endeavor) to secure all the first rate jobs for themselves. That's why they're apparatchiks and nomenklatura... |
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