Hugo Awards deemed certain authors "ineligible" as award finalists for fear of offending China

[Roadvirus]

Authors Neil Gaiman, Paul Weimer, R.F. Kuang and Xiran Jay Zhao were deemed ineligible as finalists in last year’s awards despite earning enough votes. Released emails show that award organizers were concerned with how the authors would be perceived in China, File 770, a science fiction outlet, reported.

The Hugo Awards were hosted in China last year. According to the reports, Dave McCarty, who headed the 2023 award selection, wrote in an email last June that since the event was “happening in China” and the laws they must operate under “are different,” that the organizers should “highlight anything of sensitive political nature.”

Neil Gaiman, Paul Weimer among writers excluded from Hugo Awards over fear of offending China: Report

The Hugo Awards, some of the most prestigious literary awards in science fiction, excluded several authors last year over concerns that their work could be offensive to China, leaked emails show. A…

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Unacceptable. This just plays into China's censorship. If this was going to be such a damn problem, why did they host it in China in the first damn place?

 

[ColdHardTruth]

Unacceptable. This just plays into China's censorship. If this was going to be such a damn problem, why did they host it in China in the first damn place?

Time to pull the Hugo awards out of China and ban all Chinese participation. China must be banned from the Olympics.

 

[TheParser]

If this was going to be such a damn problem, why did they host it in China in the first damn place?

Exactly!

And why in blank is anyone even visiting China (and especially Hong Kong, whose democracy was crushed)?

Because I am so old (86), I remember the days when Americans loved the Chinese (and vice versa).

Under so-called Communism, China no longer stays in its lane.

 

[noonereal]

Unacceptable. This just plays into China's censorship. If this was going to be such a damn problem, why did they host it in China in the first damn place?

My advice, if you are this upset send back your RSVP as not attending. Maybe even enclose a note in all caps with your complaint. That ought to set them straight.

 

[Roadvirus]

My advice, if you are this upset send back your RSVP as not attending. Maybe even enclose a note in all caps with your complaint. That ought to set them straight.

Nice to see you have zero problem with censorship and capitulation to China.

 

[noonereal]

Because I am so old (86), I remember the days when Americans loved the Chinese

To be fair, we still love the food.

 

[noonereal]

Nice to see you have zero problem with censorship and capitulation to China.

As always, no solution. Just outrage in matters you are not involved in.

 

[Grand Mal]

Time to pull the Hugo awards out of China and ban all Chinese participation. China must be banned from the Olympics.

How is that different from banning authors China wouldn't like?

 

[BirdinHand]

Hopefully this being brought to light will have them change the policy going forward.

Perhaps don’t hold major award ceremonies in countries that may be unsafe for the authors/writers as step 1.

 

[BitterPill]

My advice, if you are this upset send back your RSVP as not attending. Maybe even enclose a note in all caps with your complaint. That ought to set them straight.

All cap complaints work like a charm for Trump.

MAGA.

 

[Bok Tuklo]

I’m a big fan of the Hugo Awards. This news sucks.

 

[BitterPill]

To be fair, we still love the food.

Agreed.

A ramen house recently opened nearby.

The food is delicious.

MAGA.

 

[Chock Full o Nuts]

As always, no solution. Just outrage in matters you are not involved in.

Well I vote that as a replacement for the header under Debate Politics at the top of the page.
This place is all outrage; has anyone solved anything?

 

[BitterPill]

As always, no solution. Just outrage in matters you are not involved in.

Well I vote that as a replacement for the header under Debate Politics at the top of the page.
This place is all outrage; has anyone solved anything?

He'd be better off buying a red hat, engaging the cap-lock and joining the MAGAsphere.

Coincidentally, I sell red hats, various FJB flags and even have four Never Surrender High Tops for sale.

PM me if interested.

MAGA.

 

[ColdHardTruth]

How is that different from banning authors China wouldn't like?

When I say ban all Chinese participation, I mean remove China from the list of countries that Hugo's are offered to and hold no events therein.

The authors are free to submit their works to the Hugo commission outside of China. This way, China cannot interfere.

 

[PoS]

These sci-fi awards have been compromised for years now. I would disregard anything past the turn of the century.

 

[Surrealistik]

Unacceptable. This just plays into China's censorship. If this was going to be such a damn problem, why did they host it in China in the first damn place?

Indeed.

China obviously should be blacklisted and boycotted by the Hugos (and other other similar awards) until such time writers have full liberty to author whatever they like within its borders; the CCP's petty and contemptible censorship must never supersede artistic and literary freedoms.

 

[Tangmo]

Agreed.

A ramen house recently opened nearby.

The food is delicious.

MAGA.

Boiled pigeon.

Bat soup.

Covid.

Items you don't wanna see on your menu at the Ramen House. And that you don't see.

Enjoy!