the volunteer body that administered the 2023 Hugo Awards appeared to have directly engaged in self-censoring the nominees over political concerns about the host country, China. The emails allege members of the Hugo administration team succeeded in keeping certain books off-ballot because they wanted to operate under Chinese laws related to content and censorship
@NicoleCRust yeah they fucked that up royally. Everyone involved in the decisions needs to go and the 2023 award categories that were impacted should be nullified. Effectively they already are; those awards are illegitimate. The authors who won them should reject them imo, though that's a tough ask.
I did make sure to put some of the censored books on my to read list, so good job with the Streisand Effect I guess
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