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Originally Posted by pwalker8
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.
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Unfortunately, that's a load of BS propagated by the puppies. For example, with the Hugo awards, there was never anything close to a lock by Tor authors, nor was there ever a case where Tor, Tor authors or editors or anyone associated with a particular publisher produced a list of 3-5 candidates with a recommendation to nominate these candidates (wink, wink). If anyone had a lock in for best novel in the last decade, BTW, it was Orbit books. The venom was not against Baen authors, it was against the people organizing the slates, and the defenders of the slates. Because there were a lot of Baen authors and editors that defended the slates, it appeared to outsiders that this was an anti-Baen movement, but that's only because of the overlap between the two groups. In 2017, an author whose series had been published entirely by Baen received the first best series award.