Posted: 5/1/2014 3:36:50 PM EDT
| Anybody following what's going on with SWFA and the Hugo awards and wants to enlighten a late comer? I've got snippets through Facebook but don't get the backstory. |
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Are you talking about Hugo Award nominated author who claimed to be subject to politically motivated character assassination? If so there was a multi page thread in GD on it started a few days ago.
Author Nominated For Hugo Award; Subjected to Politically Motivated Character Assassination |
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SFWA & the Hugo Awards are unrelated but similar kerfluffles.
SFWA ejected a "life member" over his views on race. (I"m not saying he is right or wrong - but he does like arguing on the internet.) Larry Correia wanted to prove a point about "social justice warriors" and Hugo award nominations, so he held his "Sad Puppies i" and "Sad Pupplies II" campaigns, last year and this year - and behold, the hate overfloweth. (He's on the short list for a Hugo, as are the entire Wheel of Time books.) If you go to monsterhunternation.com, you can read his take on the whole thing. My computer won't link to the "deeply outraged & offended" sites - something about "recursive logic failure", "tolerant group displays intolerance", or "Signal to noise ratio of 'fact vs feelings' exceed operational parameters". (My computer has some weird error messages, today.) 
That's a short a summary as I can say. YMMV |
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Are you talking about Hugo Award nominated author who claimed to be subject to politically motivated character assassination? If so there was a multi page thread in GD on it started a few days ago. Author Nominated For Hugo Award; Subjected to Politically Motivated Character Assassination Ahh I missed that, I don't hang out there too often |
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SFWA - lefty run organization that defends big publishers against authors, while attacking smaller publishers. BTW- this goes back quite a while...it has slowly been building every year. here is a link that describes it pretty well |