Rabid Puppies 2016: Best Semiprozine
The preliminary recommendations for Best Semiprozine category:
Other 2016 Hugo categories
- Abyss & Apex
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies
- Daily Science Fiction
- Sci-Phi Journal
- Strange Horizons
People I respect have suggested I publicly demand that Vox Day remove File770 from the Rabid Puppies slate. Then having done so, if Day fails to comply and I ultimately receive a Hugo nomination, they feel I can accept it with a clear conscience.As I have repeatedly stated, what I recommend is no one else's concern or responsibility, regardless of why I chose to recommend it. Mike is doing the right thing by simply playing it straight, letting the cards fall where they may, and not worrying about how many people happen to share my preferences.
If I understand Steve Davidson correctly, he wants everyone to make a public statement repudiating slates. I don’t think people are unclear on how I feel about slates, thus it really becomes a question whether — by modeling that behavior — I want to encourage Steve to go around hammering people who don’t post the equivalent of an oath. I don’t.
Consider this point. I have been planning to nominate Black Gate because I’ve been reading it since last year’s Hugo contretemps brought it to my attention, and think they do a terrific job. What if they don’t make a public declaration? Should I leave them off my ballot? And thereby fail to do what I tell every other Hugo voter to do, nominate the stuff they think is the best?
I’m not voting for Black Gate because of a slate, and I don’t intend to be prevented from voting for it by a factor that has nothing to do with what I think about the quality of its work. That’s also why I’m choosing not to follow the advice I received about handling File 770’s appearance on the slate, though the advice is well intended.
Other 2016 Hugo categories
Labels: Hugo Award, Puppies
21 Comments:
Hilarious. File 770 only knew about Black Gate, the greatest print magazine in the industry of the 1st decade of the 21st Century, and then best blog, run by the creator of sff.net...because of the slate of Rabid Puppies.
The Hugos came pre-destroyed.
Be interesting to see if Mike can withstand the female social dominance game that is SJWdom
Vox is camping out in their heads as he seems to be owning the comments @file770.
I wonder if Mike realizes that this statement:
"Consider this point. I have been planning to nominate Black Gate because I’ve been reading it since last year’s Hugo contretemps brought it to my attention, and think they do a terrific job. "
Proves everything the puppies have been saying is correct...
OT: It's Feb. 6 and still no Hugo PIN for me.
"But he’s too invested in his image as a cool cynical manipulator..."
Heh heh heh, that's Vox.
Good point Nate. It also doesn't quite square with this from Vox when he recommended them for Best Fanzine: "File 770, for all that it has been said...does an excellent job of chronicling events in the SF/F world across the ideological spectrum. Mike Glyer's fan-flagship site continues to be a must-read for anyone even remotely interested in science fiction."
More mind games from Vox?
File 770: Putting the "semi" in semipro.
@8:
File 770: putting the "se" in Goatse...
Can anybody remind me of where File770 and Mike stood on slates last year?
@file770:The worms squirm.
@file770:The worms squirm.
Mike acknowledged that the Hugos were openly slate-based from inception, citing Philcon 2 or something back in the 1960s, encouraging membership and slates to get the best works noticed.
Slates are a fundamental premise behind the Hugos, and Mike knows it. There is nothing controversial about them.
They just didn't know what to do when outsiders joined the party and started picking better candidates. It made them look retarded.
Fandom as remedial science fiction is a very discouraging thing when you had convinced yourselves you were secret kings, and little boys were seemingly coming on to you right and left because of it.
See also The King in Yellow.
Mike is the keeper of their paper crowns but he is sane enough not to try one on himself.
Thanks for the recommendation!
Thanks for the recommendation!
Why does anyone still use the word "zine?"
Why does anyone still use the word "zine?"
Paul Weimer (@princejvstin) on February 6, 2016 at 4:59 am said:
Dear Mr Beale,
Putting stuff on your slate just to mess with people and try to make their honest opinions about the Hugos and Hugo nominees harder just makes you a bigger fuckwit than you previously were. Which is saying something.
No love,
Ne
Lol. They mad.
It goes without saying, but I just want to remind everyone, none of this should be construed as an order to support.
People don't even use the word "magazine" anymore. Not in reference to something you read, at least.
Ne,
Posting a whine at File 770 makes you more of a child-rape enabler than you already were.
Which is saying something.
Go die,
No
"... not worrying about how many people happen to share my preferences."
How many VFM are there now? One thing the SJWs haven't realised yet is that they are the primary drivers of VFM reproduction; every time they fuck something good we multiply.
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