There is a thesis that the main publishers of SF (that means TOR books and DAW/Pocket in the states) only want books that meet the current progressive agenda nominated, honoured, and promoted. They are annoyed there is Baen books, who consider SF should be in the gutter “where it belongs” telling stories, and (worse) self publishing, since printing an ebook requires not a printing press. This group took an SPCA advt. for sad puppies and decided their sadness was due to bad books being promoted and decided to block nominate their favourites, then vote for the best of them.
Much anger and hilarity ensued. This year Vox Day and his nameless minions decided to nominate their own slate and block vote. This led to them getting lots of their books onto the nominations list… and the main publishers and their fans voting “no award”. There had been 5 no awards in the history of the Hugos until 2015. There are now 10.
Which is what Vox Day wanted. The Sad Puppies want their award back: Vox wants the platform of the award destroyed.
My money is on Vox: he designs games and can write: the TOR boys understand leftist politics and write they cannot do.
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