Leaked emails show organizers of the prestigious Hugo Awards vetted writers’ work and comments with regard to China, where last year’s awards were held.

Leaked emails show organizers of the prestigious Hugo Awards vetted writers’ work and comments with regard to China, where last year’s awards were held.

Organizers of the Hugo Awards, one of the most prominent literary awards in science fiction, excluded multiple authors from shortlists last year over concerns their work or public comments could be offensive to China, leaked emails show.

Questions had been raised as to why writers including Neil Gaiman, R.F. Kuang, Xiran Jay Zhao and Paul Weimer had been deemed ineligible as finalists despite earning enough votes according to information published last month by awards organizers. Emails released this week revealed that they were concerned about how some authors might be perceived in China, where the Hugo Awards were held last year for the first time.

  • feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world
    3816·
    9 months ago

    “she was dimly aware of somebody screaming, and after a few moments realised the sound was coming from her” - Neil Gaiman; every book.

    • gloss@discuss.tchncs.de
      182·
      9 months ago

      I’ve only read a couple of his books but don’t remember this specific trope. Can you give notations?

      And even if you dislike this trope and think it’s lame does that mean he should be booted out of the Hugo awards?

    • whoelectroplateuntil
      101·
      9 months ago

      Yeah, he does like to play around with the sometimes confusing, fragmentary, and disorienting nature of subjective experience, especially during traumatic events, doesn’t he

    • proleEnglish
      7·
      9 months ago

      Someone’s never read Sandman.