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Originally Posted by Iphinome
Hope about not insulting the nominators and winners of previous years by claiming works were only nominated for affirmative action when the whole puppy raison d'etre is affirmative action for the friends of Brad.
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Nope, well, some of them.
Ignoring the obvious dinosaur in the room, take Wakulla Springs as a recent example, it was actually far and away the best novella in the list, and I have no problem with it winning an award, but the Hugo? short of a throwaway one liner at the end, in what way is it SFF.
I have previously said that both groups just like different things and there is no huge conspiracy, and although there seems to be a fair number of puppy supporters who will accept that as the reason for the nominated works being as they are (they are of course allowed to vote for their own ideas of what is good), the anti-puppy lobby (with extremely few exceptions) simply seem to attack the participants instead of attempting to see reason or even argue their own case.
I, personally, don't think Catherynne M Valente is good enough to have been nominated for an award every year for the last 5 years for the Hugo, Nebula and locus awards. That's probably just me, although a puppy could argue that it is solely because she won the
James Tiptree Jr. Award for expanding gender and sexuality in SFF and the
Lambda Award for LGBT fiction. As I said though, tastes vary.
You claiming that the puppies reason for being is just for friends of Brad is just blatantly dismissing their point without addressing it.
There is reason for hope though as both sides do agree that Rabid puppies is just Beale being an arse.