Putting the world in WorldCon

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Look! It���s a post in English!

Mary Robinette Kowal linked to this statistical analysis of Hugo winners past, posted by Aidan Walsh:��http://aidanrwalsh.com/2015/04/16/whose-rocket/

At the end of which, Aidan commented: ���Nationality really surprised me. Unfortunately I expected women to be poorly represented, but I didn���t realise how overwhelmingly American it was. (maybe naivety on my part!)���

And Mary commented: ���Wow. We really need more world in WorldCon.���

And I rolled my eyes.

Yes, there is an American bias in the Hugo awards. There is an American bias at cons in general. In fact��I would argue that��Science Fiction*, as we think of it today, is at its core an��American genre. Other��cultures and other languages contributed to the foundation��of Science Fiction,��and I do not downplay the importance of��creators such as��Jules Verne, Karel����apek or��Stanis��aw Lem. But the current fandom culture represented at cons, especially those cons more inclusive of��film���

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