The whole thing is just stupid. I am reading Kuang's Babel right now, the Chinese version, published in China, by a publisher that would be called "state-owned

The whole thing is just stupid. I am reading Kuang's Babel right now, the Chinese version, published in China, by a publisher that would be called "state-owned" when it appears in a Western report. I have read Neil Gaiman's work that was published the same way before. And still, the Hugo people be like: let's censor them because they mention China. But's let's still spotlight Robert Sawyer even though he wrote a whole trilogy that can't be more anti-PRC [1]. Meanwhile, a bunch of other people be like: Chengdu is China, Xinjiang is China, China doesn't do things to muslims in Xinjiang that the US and Israel do to muslims in the Middle East, so let's protest Sci-fi events in Chengdu! And now we have a purge on the Hugo organizers. Disclaimer: I'm a Chinese mainlander Sci-fi reader and I have a view on China that most of HN will likely disagree with. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWW_Trilogy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWW_Trilogy