Song of Ice and Fire author writes that he is glad to see reactionary lobby ‘routed’, but regrets the number of ‘No Award’ decisions this entailed
George RR Martin has said that the group of right-wing science fiction writers who tried to swing the results of this weekend’s Hugo awards to their own agenda were “routed” by the majority of fans who “did not like having their choices imposed on us”.
Two campaign groups, the so-called “Sad Puppies” and their more politically extreme counterparts the “Rabid Puppies”, had mobilised earlier this year to vote a bloc of writers onto the shortlists for the Hugo awards. The Sad Puppies set out to combat what writer Brad Torgersen had attacked as the Hugos’ tendency to reward works which are “niche, academic, overtly to the Left in ideology and flavour, and ultimately lacking what might best be called visceral, gut-level, swashbuckling fun”, and what writer Larry Correia told Wired was “boring message-fic winning awards”.
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