“”I started this campaign a few years ago,” Correia wrote on his blog, “because I believed that the awards were politically biased and dominated by a few insider cliques. Authors who didn’t belong to these groups or failed to appease them politically were shunned.””
Welcome to our world.
I never liked the sci-fi stories by Samuel R. Delany in the 1960s, but I didn’t find out my opinion was racist and homophobic for thirty years because all I had to go on was his name on the byline.
And it’s too bad that mean old sexist sci-fi readers never gave Hugo-award recognition to Marion Zimmer Bradley, Ursula K. LeGuin, and Anne McCaffrey in days of yore.