[katana]

The gist of the article is that a clique of Liberals who have been running the esteemed Hugo Awards have been excluding authors, or voting “No Award” for their works, whose political views do not line up with accepted neo-Marxist and Socialist dogma. Two groups of more traditional science fiction / fantasy fans calling themselves Sad Puppies and a more “militant” group called Rabid Puppies (I know which group I’d have joined if I was still into sci-fi) have been causing a stir about this ans so this year nobody received a Hugo. George RR Martin, author of the Game of Thrones and an ultra-liberal, proposed the groups start their own Hugo Awards. Well, F him and the back busted dragon he rode in on.

[rstrahan]

And this attitude, not only by Hugo judges but editors at the publishing houses is why so much SF is now self-published as eBooks.

[pepsi_junkie]

The lefties claim that this repudiation disproves the point the Sad Puppies were making, that the Hugos were stacked against conservative or non-lib authors, because it showed that the voters simply didn't want them. But by refusing to grany ANY award to prevent those authors from winning, they really proved the Puppie's point.

It's a disgrace and it means one thing to me. "Hugo Award Winner" on a cover means instant ignore from now on. It's likely leftist PC garbage that may or may not have merit but the award is more about PC than merit so I won't take a chance.