Thread: Inaugural Dragon Award winners named
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Old 09-08-2016, 08:57 AM   #30
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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht View Post
It is if they did such a crappy job of promoting their new awards that most of the DragonCon attendees were unaware of them, or how to nominate and vote for them.
The majority of DragonCon attendees went there for reasons other than books, and includes many categories of fandom.

And the awards were open to all, not just DragonCon attendees, so the real question is how and whether the rest of SF book fandom learned of the new awards.

And the answer is they could not - not when the establishment roundly ignored the Dragon Awards. Tor.com, for example, covered the Hugo Awards twice this year but never mentioned the Dragon Awards once.

There was in fact very little coverage of the Dragon Awards.

Since it would be stupid to suggest that news sites which covered SF fandom might miss that bit of news or that they would deem an SF con's new awards as not being newsworthy, it is pretty clear that many sites were deliberately ignoring the Dragon Awards for political reasons.

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It's kind of funny that their paranoid delusion that the Hugos were dominated by a clique and won by unpopular political works is pretty much definitely true of the Dragons.
Again, if the WorldCon clique deliberately ignored the Dragon Awards, how is it the fault of the Dragon Awards winners that their competition stayed home?

And just so we're on the same page, I'm not saying there was or was not cheating; I just see that there are multiple issues at play.
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