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Originally Posted by alansplace
The nominated works, and their popularity on Goodreads and LibraryThing, are as follows:
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Connie Willie is bowing out from presenting at the Hugo Awards.
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I’ve been asked by David Gerrold, this year’s Worldcon Guest of Honor and one of the Hugo Awards emcees, to present the Campbell Award at this year’s ceremonies. Ordinarily, I’d be very flattered and would jump at the chance, but this time I’m afraid I’m going to have to tell him no.
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You may or may not have heard of the Hugo crisis currently facing the science-fiction community. (If you haven’t, I recommend Susan Grigsby’s excellent article on Daily Kos entitled, “Freeping the Hugo Awards.”) Basically, what’s happened is that a small group of people led by Vox Day/Theodore Beale and Brad Torgerson took advantage of the fact that only a small percentage of Hugo voters nominate works to hijack the ballot. They got members of their group to buy supporting memberships and all vote for a slate of people they decided should be on it. Since everybody else just nominates what they like, and those choices vary quite a bit, nobody else stood a chance, and the ballot consists almost entirely of their slate.
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Any books on this slate are gamed and if any of these gamed books win, they don't actually win, but lose big time. So having
Skin Game be games by these people/groups is worse than never having gotten a single nomination. Don't be happy/proud that
Skin Game is on the list. Be upset and angry that
Skin Game is on the list. I would have much more respect for Jim Butcher is he was to bow out. Connie Willis deserves a lot of respect for declining to host the Hugo Awards. She is standing up for her principles. Those that got gamed and are not bowing out are going to lose respect.