Science Fiction

13672 readers

248 users here now

Welcome to /c/ScienceFiction

December book club canceled. Short stories instead!

We are a community for discussing all things Science Fiction. We want this to be a place for members to discuss and share everything they love about Science Fiction, whether that be books, movies, TV shows and more. Please feel free to take part and help our community grow.

Be civil: disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally insult others.
Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, ableist, or advocating violence will be removed.
Spam, self promotion, trolling, and bots are not allowed
Put (Spoilers) in the title of your post if you anticipate spoilers.
Please use spoiler tags whenever commenting a spoiler in a non-spoiler thread.

Lemmy World Rules

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

Tenthrow

111

Controversy over 'inexplicable' exclusion of R F Kuang and Xiran Jay Zhao from Hugo Awards 2023 (www.thebookseller.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/sciencefiction

31 comments fedilink hide all child comments

R F Kuang, Xiran Jay Zhao and Neil Gaiman were ruled ineligible for the 2023 Hugo Awards in 2023 despite receiving enough nominations.

all 32 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] b3an 48 points 10 months ago

Writing on Facebook, Gaiman said: “Until now, one of the things that’s always been refreshing about the Hugos has been the transparency and clarity of the process... This is obfuscatory, and without some clarity it means that whatever has gone wrong here is unfixable, or may be unfixable in ways that don’t damage the respect the Hugos have earned over the last 70 years.”

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's like the Hugo's are trying their hardest to become irrelevant

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

What in the world is going on in this thread

[–] RegalPotoo 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I'd say it's actually pretty explicable

[–] FMT99 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Feel free to enlighten those of us who are out of the loop.

[–] stellargmite 32 points 10 months ago

All three authors have criticised the CCP in the past. The awards were held in Chengdu, land ot pandas , spicy food , and snowflake leadership. Two of the authors are from international Chinese diaspora . The snowflakes running the country are incredibly sensitive to what ethnic han Chinese outside China - especially in public spheres - say about them. They threw Gaiman in for good measure ( atleast theyre consistent which is kind of surprising). This is just another small measure of softpower being exerted. Any author with reliance on that market is either self censoring or prepared to not have access to it. So clearly its what Hugo did in order to leave in one piece. Mustve been some interesting conversations go on.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago

What would you explicate it with, though? an explication of sorts? something else?

[+] feedum_sneedson -23 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I don't like Neil Gaiman, I find his writing a bit repetitive and his personality is a little grating. But are these other two authors any good? I'm always looking for new science fiction authors to get into, and quite liked Cixin Liu if these have been translated from Mandarin.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

R F Kuang is American and Xiran Jay Zhao is Canadian. They write in English.

[–] Mandarbmax 4 points 10 months ago

I really like Xiran. Kinda smacks you over the head with the message of the book but really fun to read with a great setting and twists.

[–] SmolSweetBean 4 points 10 months ago

I've read all of R.F. Kuang's books and they are all in my top 10 favorite books ever. Check out The Poppy War series.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I’ve tried a couple of things from R F Kuang. If you like super generic fantasy tropes with an East Asian feel, you’ll probably enjoy their stuff. I haven’t finished any full series because there just wasn’t anything to hook me. I think major authors like Raymond Feist and Terry Brookes also suffer from the generic argument albeit with a European setting so YMMV.