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Originally Posted by DNSB
From what you wrote, I take it that you are okay with the books written about gay men written by women? A rather popular subgenre. Books about gay women written by straight women? Books about gay women written by men? With authors who are now making a character in their book a "person of colour"?
I'm not when that is all the character has to offer. No additions to the storyline, just a cardboard cutout character with a label so that author can claim to be PC.
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You know, I've read books where all (or almost all) the main characters were white AND straight AND cis AND allosexual AND neurotypical AND without any physical disabilities. Talk of identity politics gone wild! I get that such people exist, but when an author decides to populate their books with such a narrow subset of humanity, there should be a strong plot reason for it, and preferably some worldbuilding to make it seem less unrealistic.
(In case it wasn't obvious, the previous paragraph was sarcasm
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Returning to the topic: I haven't read any of this year's Hugo nominated works, but I've read and liked several of the authors on the list, so I'll definitively check out the rest of the authors too. I've meant to read several of them for a while.
I actually didn't pay attention to the Hugos until the Sad Puppy stuff. That told me that a lot of people care about the Hugos, and that these days they make decent attempt at covering the whole field of SFF, not just the white male part which tends to get more attention in awards, so that made me more interested in paying attention to it.