And now, the real reason for all those SFWA dust-ups.

The Nebula Award nominees.

Whoever controls the organization, controls the awards! Imagine being a tedious old gasbag who spent decades pressing the flesh at conventions, who stayed up all night listening to someone go on about the Even Older Days...think of the amount of energy expended cranking out mimeographs, and sending paper letters to remind people of what good friends you are...and then came GEnie and it was like living in the future, and one time you had a bumper sticker with your name on it because you were running for city council on the Libertarian Party ticket on a non-compromise platform of demunicipalizing garbage collection and prize-based asteroid mining and then and then...

GIRLS with BLOGS show up and TAKE OVER. And the bitches don't even giggle and blush when you call them "pooky" and tell them to come up to your room for a private meeting where you will give them all the inside dirt on "selling stories to Gardner"...


NoooooooooooooooooooOO!