{"id":140596,"date":"2015-08-18T09:58:27","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T09:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/18\/sad-puppies-rabid-chauvinists-will-raging-white\/"},"modified":"2015-08-18T09:58:27","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T09:58:27","slug":"sad-puppies-rabid-chauvinists-will-raging-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/18\/sad-puppies-rabid-chauvinists-will-raging-white\/","title":{"rendered":"Sad Puppies, Rabid Chauvinists: Will Raging White Guys Succeed in Hijacking Sci-Fi\u2019s Biggest Awards?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sad Puppies, Rabid Chauvinists: Will Raging White Guys Succeed in Hijacking Sci-Fi\u2019s Biggest Awards?<\/a><\/p>\n

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For those who don\u2019t follow the genre-fiction awards circuit, here\u2019s what\u2019s going on. A shifting contingent of science fiction authors, editors, and fans\u2014led by Larry Correia (author of the Monster Hunters series, among others) and Brad Torgerson (author of \u201cRay of Light,\u201d \u201cThe Chaplain\u2019s Legacy\u201d and other Hugo-nominated novelettes)\u2014has spent the last several years fighting against what they perceive to be an escalating liberal bias in the Hugos. Dubbing themselves the Sad Puppies, this group has engaged in an annual effort to mobilize fans into voting for a specific slate of nominees, usually headlined by authors of a conservative political persuasion. The Hugos are vulnerable to this sort of manipulation because fans purchase the right to nominate works of fiction onto the ballot and vote\u2014anyone who has bought a supporting or attending membership in the World Science Fiction Convention (aka Worldcon) can do it.<\/p>\n

Historically, the Sad Puppies have not been successful in their efforts to swarm the Hugos, but this year it worked. Alongside their more extreme counterparts\u2014the Rabid Puppies, led by Castalia House lead editor Theodore Beale, alias Vox Day\u2014they orchestrated a campaign that resulted in the 2015 Hugo nominations being dominated by their selections. Beale himself received two nominations, and eight went to works published by Castalia House. Of these, five were by John C. Wright, who would have broken the record for most Hugo nominations in a single year by a single author if one of his stories hadn\u2019t been disqualified because it was originally published in 2013. In the category \u201cBest Novella,\u201d three of the five nominees were written by Wright, and a fourth was another Castalia House product (Tom Kratman\u2019s \u201cBig Boys Don\u2019t Cry\u201d).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Hugo Award process has always been hackable,\u201d says 2014 Hugo winner Kameron Hurley. \u201cThere was just never anyone narcissistic enough to hack it.\u201d The Puppies broke no rules, they were simply well-organized.<\/p>\n

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Sad Puppies, Rabid Chauvinists: Will Raging White Guys Succeed in Hijacking Sci-Fi\u2019s Biggest Awards? thewinterotter: For those who don\u2019t follow the genre-fiction awards circuit, here\u2019s what\u2019s going on. A shifting contingent of science fiction authors, editors, and fans\u2014led by Larry Correia (author of the Monster Hunters series, among others) and Brad Torgerson (author of \u201cRay … <\/p>\n

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