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Originally Posted by DrNefario
I thought there was a very slight argument that Wakulla Springs could be considered genre. At least, that's what I told myself when I voted for it.
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Nah, a quick throwaway line at the end doesn't make it sci-fi, that's like adding the line "Computer, End Simulation" to the end of War and Peace and calling it sci-fi.
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Originally Posted by DrNefario
Besides, neither of them won because the voters largely agreed with you. If the puppies point was that some works with dubious genre credentials can make the ballot occasionally, well they've definitely proven that.
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I thought their point was the Hugo was becoming overwhelmingly more about
message and
repressed minority of the day fiction than about good science fiction stories.
BTW, talking about Sad Puppies here (Rabid Puppies is Beale trying to break stuff and has nothing anyone wants)