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Women Swept Nearly Every Category at the 2017 Hugo Awards

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday August 16 2017, @09:16AM   Printer-friendly

"exec" writes:

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

The 75th World Science Fiction Convention (commonly known as WorldCon) is being held this weekend in Helsinki, Finland. The convention is where the annual Hugo Awards are presented, and today, the convention announced the latest recipients.

This year, women almost completely swept the Hugo Awards, taking home the top prizes for literature in the science fiction community. That's particularly notable, given how the awards have been increasingly recognizing works from female and minority creators. The trend prompted a counter-movement from two group of fans, the self-described "Sad Puppies," and their alt-right equivalents, the "Rabid Puppies." These groups gamed the awards and forced a slate of nominees onto the Hugo ballot in 2015, prompting widespread backlash within the wider genre community. Another award, the Dragon, faced similar issues earlier this week when several authors asked to pull their nominations over concerns about Puppy interference and the award's integrity.

This year's sweep by female creators seems to be a strong repudiation of anti-diversity groups. 2017 also marked the year the ceremony earned its own award: a representative from the Guinness Book of World Records certified that the Hugos are the longest-running science fiction awards ever.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 16 2017, @04:45PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 16 2017, @04:45PM (#554779)

    The norm in sci fi and other fictions now is called "Message Fiction" among writers (search that term); It's Political messaging dressed up as fiction. It used to be that the story was front and center and could stand on its own even if you didn't catch the political commentary woven into the plot, but now the messaging is front and center and there's a thin veil of sci-fi.

    Sad puppies wanted to change this since ideology now trumps quality at Hugo awards.

    Those who tell you otherwise are either ignorant or ideologically motivated.

    The awards are now useless as game journalism, but unlike gamers, readers have no "let's players" to replace reviews and awards with. A real shame, the state of the world today. Let's hope the mindworm infestation passes soon.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 16 2017, @06:26PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 16 2017, @06:26PM (#554839)

    Scifi has always been "message fiction", politics is simply the aggregate phenomenon of human social activity. Heilein's ideas at the time were 100% "political" with commentary on society's sexual puritanism (today's abortion) and socioeconomic structuring. Scifi is well known for pushing the race barriers, etc. etc.