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In Science Fiction, some awards have become almost meaningless as they came to be dominated by interests other than the pure enjoyment of a truly good story. The Hugo Awards, for example, have descended into a left/right catfight. They have become as meaningless as a Nobel Peace Prize.
Some, like yours truly, have entirely stopped reading about awards after getting burned once too many times and rely almost entirely on word of mouth or serendipity to find new authors and worthwhile books.
Our recent discussion of "The winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards" brought the idea (from bzipitidoo) that perhaps Soylent News could do a better job of pointing out new works of Science Fiction that could be of interest to soylentils and janrinok supported the idea, going so far as offering a kidney to the best author. (I think he's British, so he might have meant a kidney pie. [Not true, but funny])
Mind you, we would need to separate Science Fiction from Sci-Fi, Fantasy and other genres that have been mishmashed into one by most publishers and awards organizations.
So what do you think? What is the best new author/book in Science Fiction?
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by jmorris on Friday August 24 2018, @02:27AM (1 child)
Electoral math means things eventually collapse to two parties. But we currently have a crapload of warring factions in the runup to what increasingly looks like a hot civil war to thin it back to a couple of survivors.
On the "Progressive" side you have Socialists, Democratic Socialists, Communists, Progressives, Modern Liberals, Feminists (in both the TERF and non TERF flavor), Environmentalists and Idiotarian Libertarians, Social Gospel Pseudo Christians, Muslims, just to start off. Not to mention the whole rainbow of racial and gender identity activists battling for dominance.
On the "Right" you have old line Liberals (known by that name everywhere except the U.S.), Mainline Conservatives, Paleo-Conservatives, Neo-Conservatives, Anti-Idiotarian Libertarians, Objectivists, the Alt-Light, Alt-Right, NRx, Reactionaries, TEA Partiers, Christians, etc. And with every "Fuck White People" tweet a growing White racial identity trying to figure out why it needs to exist.
Then ya get fringe factions that can't even be plotted anywhere near the Left-Right line. For example we got both real and ironic Nazis who oppose the Progs but, by definition, can't be on "the Right". Neither fish nor fowl. Now add in about a third of the country that doesn't really know or care what they believe politically.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @03:55AM
Muslims and Christians are a political class now? Put down the pipe you've had too much.