ClydeR
04-12-2015, 09:49 PM
A coordinated voting campaign is rescuing the HUGO awards from the recent liberal ideological takeover that rewarded writers because their characters fit into certain favored minority groups. I fail to understand how George R.R. Martin or anyone else can object to simple fairness.
George RR Martin has waded into the “nasty, nasty fight” surrounding this year’s Hugo awards, laying out why he believes that a group of rightwing science fiction writers have “broken” the prestigious prize beyond repair.
The shortlists for the long-running American genre awards, won in the past by names from Kurt Vonnegut to Ursula K Le Guin and voted for by fans, were announced this weekend to uproar in the science fiction community, after it emerged that the line-up corresponded closely with the slates of titles backed by certain conservative writers. The self-styled “Sad Puppies” campaigners had set out to combat what orchestrator and writer Brad Torgersen had criticised as the Hugos’ tendency to reward “literary” and “ideological” works.
More... (http://www.alternet.org/culture/george-rr-martin-says-rightwing-lobby-has-broken-science-fictions-hugo-awards)
George RR Martin has waded into the “nasty, nasty fight” surrounding this year’s Hugo awards, laying out why he believes that a group of rightwing science fiction writers have “broken” the prestigious prize beyond repair.
The shortlists for the long-running American genre awards, won in the past by names from Kurt Vonnegut to Ursula K Le Guin and voted for by fans, were announced this weekend to uproar in the science fiction community, after it emerged that the line-up corresponded closely with the slates of titles backed by certain conservative writers. The self-styled “Sad Puppies” campaigners had set out to combat what orchestrator and writer Brad Torgersen had criticised as the Hugos’ tendency to reward “literary” and “ideological” works.
More... (http://www.alternet.org/culture/george-rr-martin-says-rightwing-lobby-has-broken-science-fictions-hugo-awards)