{"id":51,"date":"2016-04-02T03:10:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T03:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=51"},"modified":"2016-08-27T10:29:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T14:29:57","slug":"hugos-and-puppies-and-chorfs-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/02\/hugos-and-puppies-and-chorfs-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugos and Puppies and Chorfs, Oh My!"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Well it&#8217;s April and that means it&#8217;s time for science fiction and character assassination.\u00a0 This year will mark the fourth iteration of the greatest literary experiment since the invention of the apostrophe.\u00a0 At this point the whole saga has become too long and complicated to rehash in detail but the argument in a nutshell is that the Hugo Awards had become a very in-bred mutual admiration prize that a surprisingly small number of voters controlled.\u00a0 The Sad Puppies claimed that the prizes no longer reflected the kind of stories that the majority of sf buyers wanted but rather a literary style that was heavy on progressive social messaging and flavor of the day affirmative action representation.\u00a0 In fact what they claimed was that a small group of like-minded authors and the publishers who printed their works (call them the Gatekeepers) basically agreed on a slate ahead of time and because of the small attendance were able to dictate the winners based on their progressive sensibilities.\u00a0 For this assertion the Puppies were mocked and reviled.\u00a0 So they formed a slate of their own and captured almost all of the nominations.\u00a0 The panic and anger this engendered is hard to exaggerate.\u00a0 Some of the publishing professionals used their media contacts to get multiple news sites to characterize the Sad Puppies as racist, sexist white supremacists.\u00a0 Interestingly several of the puppies were various combinations of non-white and non-male.\u00a0 But the truth is no excuse for ruining a perfectly good narrative.\u00a0 By convincing the larger sf community that evil men were co-opting the venerable Hugos the Gatekeepers were able to recruit a couple of thousand new voters who used the &#8220;no-award&#8221; option to punish the puppy nominees.\u00a0 And just to show how petty these gatekeepers were they handed out asterisks at the award ceremony to nominees just to show them how illegitimate their status was.<\/li>\n<li>This year the Sad Puppies have decided to take the high road and make the program more inclusive allowing anyone regardless of sensibilities to nominate works.\u00a0 This has garnered them less hate (slightly) from the Gatekeepers.\u00a0 However, a very large section of the Sad Puppies has migrated to the Rabid Puppies.\u00a0 These are followers of a fellow called Vox Day who so despises the Hugo Gatekeepers (or Social Justice Warriors (SJWs) as he calls them) that burning down the Hugos is actually more desirable to him than reforming them.\u00a0 Now the Rabids are generally a prickly crowd and tend to bite friend or foe when the whim strikes them.\u00a0 But how can you fault someone who nominates a story for a Hugo called &#8220;Space Raptor Butt Invasion.&#8221;\u00a0 If the Rabids manage to capture a substantial proportion of the nominations pandemonium (and hilarity) will ensue.\u00a0 The character assassination will be phenominal.\u00a0 But it is instructive to see just how easily the progressives crumble when exposed to just a small fraction of the unfairness that they dish out to conservatives.\u00a0 Very instructive.<\/li>\n<li>So Bravo Puppies (Sad and Rabid).\u00a0 Long may you gnaw your chew toys.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[paypal-donation]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well it&#8217;s April and that means it&#8217;s time for science fiction and character assassination.\u00a0 This year will mark the fourth iteration of the greatest literary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8,12,11,13,14],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sff","tag-larry-correia","tag-rabid-puppies","tag-sad-puppies","tag-sjw","tag-vox-day"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hugos and Puppies and Chorfs, Oh My! 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