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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
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.
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I don't think so. There very much is a clique of similar style authors, many of whom are published by Tor or Orbit. I never said it was an anti-Baen, but rather it was the standard response that one sees anytime a clique is challenged. The commonality with sad puppies is that they are mostly Baen authors, i.e. that's where they know each other from. They aren't all conservative writers. That's my major point. The conservative angle was simply a spin put out. Now, when a group of indies does it, we see much the same spin. Hey, it worked last time, let's use it again.