Diversity wins as the Sad Puppies lose at the Hugo awards

The drubbing received by the reactionary lobby’s preferred nominees shows that sci-fi’s future has to be a diverse one

Thank you Sad Puppies, you’ve done more for diversity in sci-fi than an army of social justice warriors.

For those arriving new to Hugogeddon 2015 I will briefly reprise the state of play. The Hugos are a fan-decided award for sci-fi books. In Spokane, Washington, at the weekend, the Chinese science fiction author Liu Cixin won the big prize for best novel, but “no award” was declared in five other categories. The awards bring an end to months of controversy, in which George RR Martin himself waded in several times to urge fans to defeat the Sad Puppies.

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