{"id":5849,"date":"2015-04-19T21:01:38","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T01:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=5849"},"modified":"2015-04-21T20:01:43","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T00:01:43","slug":"controversy-in-this-years-hugo-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/controversy-in-this-years-hugo-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversy in this year’s Hugo awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a controversy in this year’s Hugo award nominations that seems unprecedented. Because a small number of people generally nominate, and anyone who purchases a $40 Worldcon membership can nominate, that leads to the ease with which the system can be overthrown. In other words, a group of people working together can get books they want nominated onto the ballot. Here’s an article from New Republic that gives you an overview of what’s happened.<\/p>\n

Science Fiction White Boys’ Club Strikes Back<\/a><\/p>\n

Here are a couple of more in-depth articles with differing opinions. Here’s Edward Willett:<\/p>\n

Thoughts on the Hugo awards<\/a><\/p>\n

And here’s Arthur Chu on Salon.com:<\/p>\n

Sci-fi’s right-wing backlash: Never doubt that a small group of deranged trolls can ruin anything (even the Hugo Awards)<\/a><\/p>\n

What the groups that instigated the controversy did was technically allowed but it seems like most people are frowning on it. If that’s the case, perhaps a change to the rules is in order. Here are some suggestions on how to fix things:<\/p>\n

Back To The Future \u2013 Of The Hugos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a controversy in this year’s Hugo award nominations that seems unprecedented. Because a small number of people generally nominate, and anyone who purchases a $40 Worldcon membership can nominate, that leads to the ease with which the system can be overthrown. In other words, a group of people working together can get books they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[77,9,8],"class_list":["post-5849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","tag-awards","tag-fantasy","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5849"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5853,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5849\/revisions\/5853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}