The fallout from the Chinese censorship of Chengdu Worldcon’s 2023 Hugo Awards keeps spreading. After it was revealed that the Hugo Awards Committee team colluded with the Chi-coms to spy on and censor science fiction writers, many of the genre’s political activist rabble-rousers posted their outrage about the Hugo Awards being rigged. John Scalzi, Neil Gaiman, and Mary Robinette Kowal each had their part in censoring conservatives from being able to get awards, cheering it on when it occurred. Still, now they are singing a different tune when it happened to their friends at Chengdu Worldcon.
John Scalzi has been one of the most notorious members of the Science Fiction Writers of America to go after and attack political opponents in his genre. The recipient of a dubious contract from Tor Books for millions of dollars, John Scalzi, appears to spend more time posting his angry rants to social media than he does writing his books. He took to his blog to write about this year’s Chengdu Worldcon awards in a post titled “The 2023 Hugo Fraud and Where We Go From Here.”
As a multiple Hugo Award winner, John Scalzi now says of the awards, “It’s a farce, as well as a fraud.”
This marks a departure from when his cronies rigged the Hugo Awards, where Scalzi defended the rules changes to hamper authors he didn’t like from getting nominated in a post titled, “Gum on the Shoe of History, or, Why the Hugos Are Still Not Destroyed.”
Neil Gaiman has been at the forefront of the Hugo Award complaints this year as his Sandman Netflix adaptation was disqualified. He took to the woke safe space BlueSky to post, “I’m unsure how comfortable I would be participating if anything I was involved in was nominated for a Hugo in 2024, if there were people involved who had been part of what happened in Chengdu.”
Naturally, back when the Sad Puppies had their nominations, which included Neil Gaiman’s Sandman: Overture, the known cuckold writer referred to his political opponents as “sad losers.”
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Mary Robinette Kowal became SFWA president with her focus on identity politics, pushing feminist agendas, and trying to ensure everyone who disagreed with her was blacklisted from the science fiction publishing industry.
Not to many’s surprise, she blames the incident on a man, and not politics ruining an entertainment genre, saying of Chengdu Worldcon, “I am so angry that the actions of this man — the pressure and presumption and abuse of power of this man are going to blow back on the Chinese fans who were just excited about science-fiction.”
None of the major woke activists who had a hand in Worldcon circling the drain in the mid-2010s seem to have posted any self-reflection on what got them to this point. Worldcon has been corrupt for a long time, with rules changes to benefit these people in the whisper network of science fiction publishing, but John Scalzi, Neil Gaiman, and Mary Robinette Kowal never would lift a finger to stand up for people in instances where it wouldn’t gain them clout. They only complain when their social statuses are threatened by the very conduct they’ve been guilty of for years.
What do you think of John Scalzi, Neil Gaiman, and Mary Robinette Kowal whining about the Chengdu Worldcon Hugo Awards? Leave a comment and let us know.
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What goes around, comes around.
“John Scalzi, appears to spend more time posting his angry rants to social media than he does writing his books.”
John is GRRM’s writing mentor.
Neil Gaiman: “I’m unsure how comfortable I would be participating if anything I was involved in was nominated for a Hugo in 2024, if there were people involved who had been part of what happened in Chengdu.”
Sorry, Neil. President Xi still won’t sleep with you.
Mary Three Names is a delight. Just an utter delight. She should tell the men who pickup her trash to stop coming.
Mary Robinette Kowal is the worst of them all, because she still plays identity politics, when it’s identity politics that came back and bite her in the butt.