Campaign to load nominations for the prestigious SF awards with more conservative authors prompts Marko Kloos and Annie Bellet to pull outTwo authors have withdrawn their work from contention for the prestigious Hugo science fiction awards in the wake of what George RR Martin has called “Puppygate”,the controversy that has “plunged all fandom into war”.
Marko Kloos, whose novel Lines of Departure had been picked along with four other authors for the best novel Hugo – an award that counts Dune and Neuromancer among its former winners – announced on Wednesday that he had withdrawn his acceptance of the nomination. Annie Bellet, or whose Goodnight Stars was a contender for best short yarn,also withdrew from the race.
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Source: theguardian.com