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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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Heinlein On The Puppies

Posted on April 21, 2015 by Andrew Hickey

Since he’s the writer they seem to cite most often (for example Correia’s “even Starship Troopers wouldn’t win if it came out today”), this quote from him about critics he dislikes seems apropos: He will permit any speculation at all … 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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And one final thing on this whole mess

Posted on April 6, 2015 by Andrew Hickey

I appreciate my blog has been rather dominated by one issue for the last few days, and it’ll stop very soon, but I just want to say this publicly. I am a cishet white man, and as such my opinion … Continue reading →

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Anti-Fascist Podcasting

Posted on April 6, 2015 by Andrew Hickey

I was invited on a podcast last night by Jack Graham, the blogger who does Shabogan Graffiti, the Marxist Doctor Who blog. The subject was the Sad and Rabid Puppy slates, the neofascist scum who’ve taken over the Hugos, and … Continue reading →

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