Presented at: Sasquan, Spokane, Washington, USA, August 22, 2015Posted on 08/23/2015 3:17:23 PM PDT by EveningStar
Presented at: Sasquan, Spokane, Washington, USA, August 22, 2015
Hosts: David Gerrold and Tananarive Due
Base design: Matthew Dockrey
Awards Administration: John Lorentz, Ruth Sachter, Linda Deneroff, Ron Oakes, Dave McCarty and Glenn Glazer
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Yes it’s Hugo, but is it series?
Apparently it’s very series. :-D
It really is a shame; they've ensured that the Hugos no longer have any real commercial value among a number of the strongest fans of the award.
Oh, and a pretty strong message: Unless your story appeals to the fringe elements, pays homage to the gay mafia, or any other liberal element, you can kiss goodbye any chance of winning a Hugo. Conservatives need not apply.
Hugos are now worthless.
There's always the Nobel Peace Prize.
Kansas then Finland. Being Liberals involved, there is just a hint of shenanigans going on with the vote. There was a large amount of people who bought a voting membership and didn’t vote and rumors of a Publishing House paying the voting fee.
Just another thing that proves Progressives will not deal fairly and hate outside thought.
The awards look to have always been a mess. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Award
Excerpt: claim that the awards are becoming an “affirmative action” honor and are given to authors and works based on the whether the writer or characters belong to an underrepresented minority group.
http://www.bustle.com/articles/74596-how-the-2015-hugo-awards-became-a-battlefield-and-not-over-science-fiction
It was worse that than, they no-awarded the Jewish Female Editor-in-Chief of Baen because they don’t like the authors that she hires.
Don’t diss Spokane. That’s my hometown. It won the right to host Worldcon fair & square in 2013.
Next year, Worldcon is in Kansas City. After that, Helsinki.
That seems to be almost intrinsic to awards. The Newbery Medal for children's literature suffers from much the same problem: the books that are selected are all too often the kinds of books that the judges want to read rather than what children want to read, so they are frequently selected because of their "literary quality" rather than appeal to a broad selection of juvenile readers, who are more likely to pick up a classic book like The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe or Charlotte's Web than something that won a Newbery.
The funny thing is that the Hugo is a reader's-choice award. The Nebula, by contrast, is selected by authors—the members of the Science Fiction Writers Association. I can only imagine the politics that goes into that one.
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