Mr Tech KingMay 3, 2025
Yikes. Worldcon 2025 used AI to help vet panelists, claiming time savings despite needing human review. The sci-fi community isn't happy, citing AI errors and ethics. Another fumble for the con. #Worldcon #AIethics #SciFiFandom
Show threadAnneTheWriterFeb 20, 2024

3/🧵 More fallout from the #HugoAwardsDebacle includes a number of resignations...

https://file770.com/cheryl-morgan-dave-mccarty-resign-from-wsfs-hugo-award-marketing-committee/?fbclid=IwAR1wMcng_IQnJw7nJTe2mU4EVIvNyeLDfhrP9BetRRhY9GacMr9OXjkYSoc

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Cheryl Morgan, Dave McCarty Resign from WSFS’ Hugo Award Marketing Committee - File 770

WSFS’ Hugo Awards Marketing Committee (“HAMC”) members Cheryl Morgan and chair Dave McCarty have resigned. New chair Linda Deneroff says, “We are currently in a holding pattern. I have taken over leading the HAMC, but I still need to contact the other members of the committee to see if they wish to remain on it.”

File 770 - Mike Glyer's news of science fiction fandom
Show threadAnneTheWriterFeb 20, 2024

@jenna

I kept noticing that so many of the emails (from the people making the award decisions!) had things in them along the lines of, "I've never read it, but it MIGHT be a problem..." and "I've never read it, but I've heard..."

Censorship is always based on ignorance-- not only the desire to remain ignorant of new ideas, but the opinions of people who have never actually read or viewed the books/film/art they are trying to censor.

I guess now we can only *hope* that the people who vote on #TheOscars actually spend a few hours watching all of the nominated films before voting. 😠🙄

#HugoAward #TheHugoAwards #Hugos #SciFi #SciFiFandom #ScienceFictionBooks #Fascism #Censored #CensorshipIssues #ScienceFictionLiterature #ScienceFictionLit #ScienceFiction #HugoAwards #Literature #HugoAwardsDebacle

Show threadAnneTheWriterFeb 20, 2024

2/🧵 For anyone wanting to read more about the backstory to this #HugoAwardsDebacle, this article gives more details about the specific authors, books, and short stories which were blocked from consideration and about the Committee's leaked emails.

Something which should also be scandalous on some level, imo, is that the Committee was voting on works they say they had never read. How can you fairly evaluate and compare stories you've never read?

Apparently, the Hugos are decided on book sleeve blurbs and social media posts.😠☹️

[The linked article says it is "Free for a limited time." I generally try not to post articles if they are behind paywalls.]

#HugoAward #TheHugoAwards #Hugos #SciFi #SciFiFandom #ScienceFictionBooks #Fascism #Censored #CensorshipIssues #ScienceFictionLiterature #ScienceFictionLit #ScienceFiction #HugoAwards #Literature #WritingCommunity #WritersLife #Writers #AuthorsLife #Authors #Writing

https://www.vulture.com/article/hugo-awards-china-censorship-controversy.html

AnneTheWriterFeb 20, 2024

1/🧵 You might have heard there's been a #censorship scandal rocking #ScienceFiction literature's biggest award, the #HugoAwards.

The annual ceremony was held in #Chengdu, #China. Although no evidence has been found linking any direct Chinese govt influence on the Award Committee's actions, leaked emails prove that the Hugo Committee DID remove potential nominees before they could be considered, because they were anticipating possible offenses against Chinese govt policies.

(This is how #Fascist governments work-- not only because govt cronies enforce their own authoritarian laws, but because ordinary people join in and support their policies.)

Now, author #SamanthaMills (who won the Hugo for her #ShortStory "RabbitTest," about abortion access) has posted that she has refused her Hugo and removed mentions of her award from her website and books.

#HugoAward #TheHugoAwards #Hugos #SciFi #SciFiFandom #ScienceFictionBooks #Fascism #Censored #HugoAwardsDebacle

https://samtasticbooks.com/2024/02/17/rabbit-test-unwins-the-hugo/

“Rabbit Test” unwins the Hugo

I cannot convey the supreme depths to which I’d rather be doing anything else with my Saturday afternoon other than writing this blog post, but here we are. If you have been blessedly insulat…

SAMANTHA MILLS
Ryan WaldonMay 26, 2023

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