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.
"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."
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... 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.
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
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[ 1.9 ms ] story [ 23.5 ms ] threadBlah. 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.