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Old 04-15-2015, 12:59 PM   #1
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Connie Willis turns down Hugo presentation gig
Yet more fallout from SP/RP Hugo drama.

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Old 04-15-2015, 07:23 PM   #2
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Old 04-17-2015, 06:30 AM   #3
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Good for her.
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She doesn't want to support this douchebaggery. Completely justified.

This years hugo are ruined anyway. Who ever wins wont know if he won because his work was truly the best that year, or because people voted against sad and rabid puppies.
However you spin it, it's no good.
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Old 04-17-2015, 02:52 PM   #4
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She doesn't want to support this douchebaggery. Completely justified.

This years hugo are ruined anyway. Who ever wins wont know if he won because his work was truly the best that year, or because people voted against sad and rabid puppies.
However you spin it, it's no good.
I agree. George R. R. Martin also made a similar point on his page. The Hugo is a big award in SF and being nominated is supposed to be a great honor, especially if you are a new author who wrote something good. But those who win this year will have the taste of ashes in their mouths as they won't know if they won because they deserved it, or because of all this mess. I wish Asimov, Clarke and some of their other contemporaries were still with us and could weigh in on this. I'm sure they would have had some strong opinions to express.
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Old 04-21-2015, 12:07 AM   #5
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I wonder WWRAHD? :-)
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I rather think his first move would be to smash the caricatured idol that's been made of him. Point to I Will Fear No Evil and Stranger in a Strange Land, and ask how his "fans" can possibly ignore that they're big-time Message Fiction.

Then, once he was done with that, he'd probably ask how the hell he got resurrected, and whether he should seek out the closest river.
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I rather think his first move would be to smash the caricatured idol that's been made of him. Point to I Will Fear No Evil and Stranger in a Strange Land, and ask how his "fans" can possibly ignore that they're big-time Message Fiction.

Then, once he was done with that, he'd probably ask how the hell he got resurrected, and whether he should seek out the closest river.
And some quite ... interesting ... messages some of them were, too.
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