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arguewithatree · 3437 days ago · link · · parent · post: Who Won Science Fiction’s Hugo Awards, and Why It Matters

such as?

dingus · 3437 days ago · link ·

well, they're claiming that some stories aren't voted on for their quality but on the political leaning of their writers, which is an additional reason why the Hugo is flawed.

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arguewithatree · 3437 days ago · link ·

good edit -- social justice warrior is such a nothing term

I can understand that but I think that people want to overpoliticize representation in literature. If people write about their reality as a woman/person of color/non-straight or cis person, that's not about politics that's about lived experience.

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dingus · 3437 days ago · link ·

If people write about their reality as a woman/person of color/non-straight or cis person

and it makes for a good book, but unless there's an entire other dimension to that book it's not good sci-fi.

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arguewithatree · 3437 days ago · link ·

Right but it doesn't sound like that was the case? Full disclosure I don't know the media that won but from what I've seen it looks well rounded and meets the requisites of sci-fi

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dingus · 3437 days ago · link ·

I don't think it's as big of a problem as the Sad Puppies make it out to be, but it's there. I think they provided a few examples in the article, probably more if you dig around the net a little.

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arguewithatree · 3437 days ago · link ·

Sure. I think an expanded audience would inherently lead to expanded pool of nominees for the awards and I think people will vote for what they identify with rather than a story that's been told before. And that's how the genre grows.