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YAAAAASS

Why? 0_o

Loederkoningin wrote: "Why? 0_o"

Heya, LK! :jumphugs:

Hm, well, I don't know if you followed the whole kerfuffle about Hugos this year, but the gist of it was: Sad Puppies/Rabid Puppies (group of authors with conservative views who think that state of scifi is in danger because it's not cis-hetero-white-male playground anymore) wanted to impose their own ideology prove that Hugos are not rewarding the best books in genre any more and are all about PC. :eyeroll:
So, they found a loophole in nomination process and organized their supporters to nominate authors and works they think deserving. This resulted in many excellent books missing the ballot (like Rothfuss not getting nomination for TSRoST or City of Stairs, Station 11...). So, my karma comment was in double context: Kloos who refused his nomination when he found out he's on Puppies slate made a room for Liu Cixin who won Hugo for Best Novel and the fact that No Award was handed in five categories.
Wired has a good text about it: http://www.wired.com/2015/08/won-scie...
It's men being petty and awards getting political...
You are really not missing much. :P

Hmmm, interesting.

Man, Castalia House and John C. Wright were SUPER unlucky to miss out on so many categories. What'd they ever do to be treated so poorly?

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Figgy wrote: "Hmmm, interesting.

Man, Castalia House and John C. Wright were SUPER unlucky to miss out on so many categories. What'd they ever do to be treated so poorly?

[/sarcasm]"

:D

Noah Ward, new star of genre.

Lege wrote: "

:D

Noah Ward, new star of genre."


Lol, you got me for a second, there.

I was like "I don't remember seeing that name..." even opened up a search box on the awards page, and then it hit me.

Well played. :P

@Figgy- I can't claim the glory; I am not sure if Wendig started it but I saw it on his feed. :)

I am pretty sure I am not the only one who wanted to read obligatory post-Hugos thoughts from Scalzi, Wendig and GRRM (his Alfies was pretty neat move).

noah ward impresses me, and the alfies were a great touch. all the authors who had declined their nominations because the sad puppies had campaigned for them—they didn't get a Hugo but they got an alfie for their principled stand.

julio wrote: "noah ward impresses me, and the allies were a great touch. all the authors who had declined their nominations because the sad puppies had campaigned for them—they didn't get a Hugo but they got an ..."

It's sad that the genre that's all about celebrating progressive ideas got crippled by such a narrow-minded ideology of few individuals...

Thanks for clearing that up. I had no idea. It's all been flying over my head. I'm smiling with glee now.

Loederkoningin wrote: "Thanks for clearing that up. I had no idea. It's all been flying over my head. I'm smiling with glee now."

Seriously, you found out just in time. The outrage and disappointment news of nominees caused and following fighting and name-calling was terrible to read: there is a reason comments are closed on Hugo related posts on Tor's page.

Literary awards are bullshit anyway. It's all cliquey mutual back-patting crap.