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Hugo Awards Drama

posted by cmn32480 on Monday August 24 2015, @02:41AM   
from the white-males-have-enough-awards dept.

The Mighty Buzzard writes:

So, last night the SJW types over at the Hugo awards decided they'd rather burn the whole thing to the ground than give out an award based on what the readers like instead of social justice reasons:

The members of the World Science Fiction Society rejected the slate of finalists in five categories, giving No Award in Best Novella, Short Story, Related Work, Editor Short Form, and Editor Long Form. This equals the total number of times that WSFS members have presented No Award in the entire history of the Hugo Awards, most recently in 1977.

Here are a few of the people on the #SadPuppies slate that should be quite surprised to learn that they were denied a chance at an award for being white males when they wake up this morning: Rajnar Vajra, Larry Correia, Annie Bellet, Kary English, Toni Weisskopf, Ann Sowards, Megan Gray, Sheila Gilbert, Jennifer Brozek, Cedar Sanderson, and Amanda Green.

takyon: Here are in-depth explanations of the Hugo Awards controversy.

Previously: "Rightwing lobby has 'broken' Hugo awards" Says George R.R. Martin (240 comments)

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Original Submission

• No they don't No they don't (Score: 3, Funny) by wonkey_monkey on Monday August 24 2015, @07:30AM

  by wonkey_monkey (279) on Monday August 24 2015, @07:30AM (#226908) Homepage

  Hugo Awards Drama

  Hugo awards sci-fi, not drama.

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• Re:No they don't (Score: 3, Insightful) by mcgrew on Monday August 24 2015, @05:47PM

  by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Monday August 24 2015, @05:47PM (#227142) Homepage Journal

  Looks to me like this year the books are SF, but the Hugos are drama.

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