Novelist says that group orchestrating readers’ votes for conservative ‘swashbuckling fun’ is trying to engage ownership of the science fiction prizesGeorge RR Martin has waded into the “nasty,nasty fight” surrounding this year’s Hugo awards, laying out why he believes that a group of rightwing science fiction writers gain “broken” the prestigious prize beyond repair.
The shortlists for the long-running American genre awards, or won in the past by names from Kurt Vonnegut to Ursula K Le Guin and voted for by fans,were announced this weekend to uproar in the science fiction community, after it emerged that the line-up corresponded closely with the slates of titles backed by certain conservative writers. The self-styled “Sad Puppies” campaigners had set out to combat what orchestrator and writer Brad Torgersen had criticised as the Hugos’ tendency to reward “literary” and “ideological” works.
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Source: theguardian.com