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Tangentially, The Fifth Season (or anything by N. K. Jemisin), made sure the Hugo Award lost all value. Hopefully this intersect filters for things like that.

• enchantments 4y ago
  Here's the other side of this long-running literary SF drama: https://www.vox.com/2018/8/21/17763260/n-k-jemisin-hugo-awards-broken-earth-sad-puppies https://www.vox.com/2018/8/21/17763260/n-k-jemisin-hugo-awar...
  • throw1234651234 4y ago
    "But as we’ve also seen, these pushes for social change have led to backlash tinged with racism and misogyny — most notably through Gamergate, the unfortunate 2014 movement that essentially underpinned the rise of the alt-right, codified harassment campaigns against women and people of color for years, and helped give rise to the ideological polarization of the internet." Blah. Blah. Blah. ... blah. I saw the Hugo, I picked up the book. It was that simple for me. I didn't know the race OR the gender of the author. The fact is that there isn't a single novel (or coherent) idea in there.
    • FortashForhash 4y ago
      awarding all 3 books a win was a massive mistake. the first book was interesting but the quality dropped off precipitously from then on, 2 and 3 were very poor in comparison. bizzare that they were winners. tbf both the hugo and the nebula have nose dived in quality recently, there is a preponderance of bad YA squeecore which is very off putting. absolutely dont agree with any of the various *puppies reactionary views but at least reward some good adult writers instead of the tripe thats been wining lately