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BOOKS Correction: Hugo Awards voting campaign sparks controversy BY ISABELLA BIEDENHARN ISABELLA324 Posted April 6 2015-4:55 PM EDT CORRECTION: After misinterpreting reports in other news publications, EW published an unfair and inaccurate depiction of the Sad Puppies voting slate, which does, in fact, include many women and writers of color. As Sad Puppies Brad Torgerson explaîned to EW the slate includes both women and non-caucasian writers including Rajinar Vaira, Larry Correia, Annie Beet, Kary English, Toni Weisskopf, Ann Sowards, Megan Gray, Shella Gilbert, Jennifer Brozek, Cedar Sanderson, oand Amando Greern. This story has been updated to more accurately reflect this. EW regrets the error Many science fiction writers are up in arms with a slate of Hugo Awards nominees lobbied by two groups affiliated with last year's GamerGate scandal, Sad Pupples and Rabid Puppies. Sad Puppies broadcast their selection on Feb. 1, writing: "If you agree with our slate below-and we suspect you might-this is YOUR chance to make sure YOUR voice is heard. Brad Torgerson, who runs Sad Puppies along with Larry Correia, complains that the Hugo Awards have lately skewed toward "literary works, as opposed to Torgerson also writes that he disagrees with Hugos being awarded for affirmative action-like color went home with awards in 2014: "Likewise, we've seen the Hugo voting skew ideological, as Worldcon and fandom alike have tended to use the Hugos as an affirmative action award: giving Hugos because a writer or artist is (insert underrepresented minority or victim group here) or because a given work features (insert underrepresented minority or victim group here) characters. purposes, as many women and writers of The other lobbying group, Rabid Puppies, is run by Theodore Beale (who goes by the name Vox Day). As The Telegraph reports Members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have called for Beale's exclusion from the against women's suffrage and posted racist views towards black writer NK Jemisin. group after he has written Writer Philip Sandifer wrote on his blog Sunday, "The Hugo Awards have just been successfully hijacked by neofascists." Sandifer's post, which is worth reading in full, addresses what this disaster means for the sci-fi world: To be frank, it means that troditional scl-fvfantasy fandom does not have any legitimocy right now. Period. A community thot con be this effectively controled by someone who thinks black people are subhuman and who has called for acid attacks on feminists is not one whose awards have any sort of cultural validity. That sort of thing doesn't happen to functional communities. And the fact that it has just happened to the oldest and most venerable award in the sci-fi fantasy community mokes it unambiguously clear thot tracitional sci-fivfantasy fandom is not fit for purpose As writer Joe Abercrombie put it The Hugo Awards have never looked less like the future of a 3:24 PM-4 Apr 2015 76 RETWEETS 93 FAVORITES わ다★ The Hugo Awards winners will be announced on Aug. 22 in Daniel Burton-14 hours ago The obvious problem with this story is in how many of the slate nominees were women. I mean, are your readers really so uninterested in the facts that you can put out a factually false story and they'll buy it? 261 Reply Share Brad Handley → Daniel Burton , 13 hours ago Daniel that would require the author to do research and not allow her to spew her r 159 Reply Share politicalcynic → Daniel Burton , 12 hours ago forwards that is JUST FINE-even when it's flat out false or potentially 91Y Reply Share Yes. Facts don't matter-it's about the SJW narrative...and ANYTHING that V10 Rob → politicalcynic . 9 hours ago Telling a narrative is what's important, facts are an anachronism from the dark ages of the 20th century Just look at their backtracking on the UVA r--- scandal. Yes we defamed multiple innocent people with a fabricated story, set a lynch mob on them, destroyed their reputations and education and careers, and we don't intend to apologize for it or acknowledge we made a mistake. Nothwithstanding any of that, we started a conversation about sexual assault on campus, and in the end, isn't that what's REALLY important? 32 ^ | 、, . Reply . Share: Leon Delafonté 14 hours ago FUnny how these so called misogynists somehow managed to nominate at least 23 women for these awards Don't be fooled by social justice ideologues who are trying to spin a story of misogyny and racism just to keep a very left leaning status quo. Sad Puppies is a group of scifi fans who got tired of watching the Hugo Awards only nominate authors who they aligned with politically and socially, as opposed to judging the work of authors based purely on quality 183 ^ I 、, . Reply . Share i Flor D. Turra → Leon Deatonté 14 hours ago so not only the Hugo awards but also this comment section is being hijacked by racist and misogynists Share Leon Delafonté → Flor D Tuma , 14 hours ago Hahahll So now I'm a racist misogynist? Who am I racist against? Other black people? 117 ^ i ﹀ . Reply . Share) voxday Thanks for setting EW straight #GamerGatel Yours, #SadPuppies 41 PM-6 Apr 2015

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TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2015 John C. Wright work disqualified Hugo Awards news from Mike Glyer at File 770: Sasquan, the 2015 Worldcon, has made changes to the final Hugo ballot to reflect eligibility rulings by Hugo administrator John Lorentz. “Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus" by John C. Wright was previously published on a web site in 2013 prior to its inclusion in The Book of Feasts & Seasons in 2014, so it is not eligible for the 2015 Novelette Hugo Jon Eno did not publish any qualifying artwork in 2014, so he is not eligible for the 2015 Professional Artist Hugo · Replacing wright's novelette on the ballot is “The Day The World Turned Upside Down" by Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Lightspeed Magazine, April 2014). Kirk DouPonce has been elevated to take Eno's place in the Best Professional Artist category I think this is a serious mistake by Sasquan. Just as Dune and Ender's Game served as precedents for a shorter work reworked and published as a longer one, which was the case with both "One Bright Star to Guide Them" and "Big Boys Don't Cry", John Scalzi's Old Man's War serves as precedent for a work that appeared on the web prior to being professionally published and subsequently declared eligible in the latter year HUGO The comparison is particularly damning because John Scalzi specifically declared Old Man's War to have been self-published in 2002, three years prior to it being published by Tor in 2005 and being nominated as Best Novel in 2006. John C. Wright is a professional author who does not self-publish and he never claimed to have published "Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus", he merely posted a work in progress on his site and removed it 015 after Castalia House signed a contract with him to publish it. This action by Sasquan not only makes it appear as if there is one rule for SJWs who are Torlings and another for everyone else, but will serve as a chilling precedent to other writers to avoid publicly posting any unpublished and incomplete work they believe might be award-worthy in the future THE NOMINATED SHORT FICTION WORKS JOHN C. WRIGHT While neither I nor Castalia House intend to protest Sasquan's decision and we recognize their right to ignore the precedents established by previous Worldcons, I do not think the decision was a wise one, especially at a time when tempers are running unusually high. Both Sad Puppies and Rabid Puppies exist because some members of the science fiction community were being treated as more equal than others, and the fact that John Scalzi and Tor Books are AGAIN the incongruous beneficiary of this sort of quietly preferential treatment is further evidence of the influential cliques and whispering campaigns that George Martin and other SJWs have disingenuously denied That being said, I have duly removed "Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus" from the collection we are preparing for the Hugo Packet. And I trust that the various complaints about John C. Wright receiving six nominations can now stop, given that he now has no more nominations than Seanan McGuire received last year Meanwhile, another rabbit is up to the usual game. One Martha L. Thomases of New York, NY, who "never knowingly slept with a Republican", has posted a fake review of RIDING THE RED HORSE What kin By Martha L. Thomases "Martha Thomases on April 13, 2015 What a piece of tripe. Exactly the kind of fiction that appeals to men who are insecure in their masculinity. My only regret is that one can't rate this book any less than one star I've reported it for abuse and inappropriate content as a fake review from someone who is not a verified purchase and has not read the book, and I encourage you to do the same. Please be aware, prospective fake reviewers, if you lie about us, we will not hesitate to tell the truth about you I am also encouraging Amazon to consider cancelling the accounts of reviewers who post fake reviews. Retroactively. It's an area they are looking into because their review system is very important to them, so keep that in mind when you are tempted to post a fake review. Note that Ms Thomases appears to be responding to this call by Glenn Hauman to post fake reviews of Sad Puppies and Rabid Puppies works and thereby lower their average ratings Oh, and to answer the title question: what do you do to rabid puppies? You put them down I would point out that recommending a specific number of nominations for the Hugo ballot is within the rules. Posting fake reviews of books you have neither purchased nor read is absolutely not. I have repeatedly told people never to post any fake review for any reason. But if the SJWs truly want to play this game, we can certainly arrange to bring a hydrogen bomb to the knife fight. As for retaliation against PZ's book, my position is the same as it was when McRapey's rabbits were posting fake reviews on Amazon. First, PZ didn't take any such action himself or advocate it. Second, he is not responsible for the actions of his readers. Third, one's integrity should not permit one to write a false review of a book, no matter how much one despises the author. Fourth, I am actively opposed to all fake reviews, be they pro or con I do not want anyone who considers himself a reader, a fan, a regular, or Dread Ilk to write fake reviews of anything. Why? Because lying about what you have not read is wron UPDATE: Glen Hauman is dumber than I thought. He's actually an author himself, complete with an Amazon page. Now, I do NOT recommend downgrading his books, but I absolute recommend bringing his call to violate the Amazon reviews system to Amazon's attention. And I call upon Hauman to recant and remove his idiotic call to put down the works written by the various Sad Puppies nominees. UPDATE 2: Hauman must be a Making Light acolyte, given his penchant for disemmvoweling. Here is what the disemvoweled comment on his site says: shakes head slowly You guys really are a special brand of stupid, aren't you? Do you enjoy poking bears with sticks as well? His audience dwarfs yours and he's not above using the same tactics as you (as you so helpfully pointed out). So you go ahead and suggest An Approach that can only possibly win if your audience is larger than his. What exactly do you hope to accomplish? BTw, talking about the Hugo Awards without actually talking about the Hugo Awards is dishonest, why not use an honest title, like “Vox is a horrible person. Here's how to beat him at his own game." I only suggest that title because you've shown you don't care about committing libel Labels: Hugo Award, trainwreck POSTED BY VOX 4/14/2015 05:43:00 AM
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