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Old 08-25-2015, 04:52 AM   #71
MikeB1972
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Originally Posted by DrNefario View Post
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.
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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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.
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)
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