Did I Get Too Many Nominations?

John C Wright has had six Hugo nominations in his career. Let us compare:

Patrick Hayden: 15 nominations (one declined)
Charles Stross: 15 nominations
Mike Glyer: 50 nominations (nine for fiction)
John Scalzi: 9 nominations
Alexis Gilliand: 8 nominations (four wins)
Theresa Hayden: 5 nominations
Seanan McGuire 5 nominations in one year….

I am not so impertinent as to dispute the tastes or judgment of the fans who ponied up the money and took the time to nominated me. They are my employers; their word is my law.

So far, in this tempest in a teardrop (it is too small for my teapot) there has been exactly one of my detractors who claimed my work was undeserving of notice, but countless detractors calling me a racist misogynist bigot ballotbox-stuffing flying purple people eater.

I will leave the flying purple people eating accusations unanswered for now, because they are trivial, irrelevant and stupid.

As to those who claim that we are introducing foreigners, gamergaters, or the unwashed masses into the pristine tower of science fiction, the numbers speak for themselves. We can take the Amazon rankings of books as a rough measure of the popularity of a work.

AVERAGE AMAZON RATINGS for Best Novel category

4.60 = Rabid Puppies

4.64 = Sad Puppies

4.46 = 2015 shortlist

3.90 = 2010-2013 shortlists

NUMBER OF HUGO NOMINATIONS

15: Patrick Nielsen Hayden

15: Charles Stross

12: Isaac Asimov

12: Robert Heinlein

09: John Scalzi

08: Jerry Pournelle

07: Arthur C. Clarke

Ask yourself who has delivered more quality work, more popular, to the Hugo shortlist? The Sad Puppies, or the previous cliques? The numbers prove objectively that our suggested slate better represents the tastes of the SF public.

As to the one and only one fellow who thought my science fiction writing in general was inferior  to the social justice fiction he and his prefer. On what this was based, you are as free to speculate as I, since he had read none of the works.

To him, I have but one reply.

Read. Compare. Judge.

Here is the list. (I will provide links as soon as my publisher makes them available.)

One Bright Star to Guide Them
Pale Realms of Shade
The Plural of Helen of Troy
Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
The Parliament of Beasts and Birds
Transhuman and Subhuman

 

 

Originally published at John C. Wright's Journal. Please leave any comments there.