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What Political Campaigners Can Learn From The Sad & Rabid Puppies

Posted on June 15, 2015 by Andrew Hickey

…apart, of course, from “don’t be like them”… For those who haven’t been following this on my blog, there are two extreme right-wing to neo-nazi groups, called the Sad Puppies and the Rabid Puppies respectively, that are calling for the … Continue reading →

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Hugo Blogging “Best” Fan Writer

Posted on June 10, 2015 by Andrew Hickey

And so once again I dip into the sewer. The “Best” Fan Writer category in the Hugos is apparently meant to encourage SF fans to write about SF. This year, it seems to be largely made up of people who … Continue reading →

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Hugo Blogging: “Best” Novelette

Posted on May 24, 2015 by Andrew Hickey

This is another category where the ballot is dominated by the overlapping slates that were block-voted in an attempt to promote reactionary (and in the case of at least one of the two slates, explicitly neo-fascist) political views, and as … Continue reading →

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Hugo Blogging: “Best” Short Story

Posted on May 23, 2015 by Andrew Hickey

All the stories in this year’s Hugo nominations for the Best Short Story award are there because they were on one or both of two overlapping slates. Not only do I believe that slates are wrong in themselves in an … Continue reading →

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Signal-Boosting Other Voices In The Hugo Kerfuffle

Posted on April 7, 2015 by Andrew Hickey

For the last couple of days, through what is mostly an accident of timing, a blog post I did the other day has been getting more traffic than my whole blog often gets in a whole month. It’s been being … Continue reading →

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