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Tag Archives: hugos
Hugo Blogging: “Best” Related Work
Best related work is another field in which all five nomination categories were taken by two overlapping slates: one, the “Sad Puppies”, who claim to exist in order to promote the kind of fiction I personally find tedious, but with … Continue reading
Hugo Blogging: “Best” Novelette
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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Tagged hugos, hugos 2015, rabid puppies, sad puppies, terrible writing
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Hugo Blogging: Retro-Hugo Novellas
I won’t be able to get all of the retro-Hugo material read before the closing date for voting (I’ve had health problems which mean my ability to concentrate has been diminished, and which also mean that I sadly won’t be … Continue reading
So, The Sad Puppies Then: Part The Final — What’s Happening Now
(NB, this is written on not enough sleep, so my apologies if it’s gibberish…) OK, so to recap, what we’ve established so far: Science fiction grew up from two traditions, the Menippean satire and pulp fiction, which both have a … Continue reading
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Tagged hugo awards, hugos, hugos 2014, libertarians, politics, sf fandom, social justice warriors
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So, The Sad Puppies, Then: 3 of 4 — “Libertarian” Authoritarians And Pulp
So, before we get to the actual point of this — the uproar in science fiction fandom about a number of books nominated for the Hugo Awards — let’s have a look at the list of libertarian policy positions supported … Continue reading
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Tagged hugo awards, hugos, hugos 2014, libertarianism, politics, right-wing authoritarianism, robert altermeyer, sf fandom
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