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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I wrote a post about that already. #4
Which is totally valid. But then why try to rig the awards?
Yes, exactly. I'm reading a Dungeons and Dragons novel (Darkwalker on Moonshae) and it's entertaining enough. But I wouldn't want to see it nominated for any major awards. |
Why rig the awards? The whole point of most of these movements is that the awards are already rigged in favor of certain writers and their cliques and they are just fighting fire with fire.
While some latched on the liberal verses conservative, I always viewed the sad puppies as closer to Baen authors verses Tor authors since several of the authors in the sad puppies movement were not really conservative but many have ties to Baen Books and the most the venom against them seems to have come from people associated with Tor. Some like to mix in the rabid puppy types, but I always considered that a smoke screen.
As far as why bother, well, one might as well wonder why the cliques took over the Hugo awards in the first place. People are funny creatures.