Worldcon Thoughts After Sasquan: Next Year in Kansas City

[odanu]

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Next year in Kansas City, we will be hosting Worldcon (“we” meaning we Missourians, not me personally, as I am a minor player at best in this drama). I am thrilled and excited to finally be in a place in my life where I can participate in person instead of through my... http://www.amnottheonlyone.com/worldcon-thoughts-after-sasquan-next-year-in-kansas-city/

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[seawasp]

Actually, the core Puppies -- being a Baen author I can't avoid hearing them, even though I do not engage for the most part -- see this as "the Trufans burned down their own house rather than allow us Wrongfans with Wrongfun to win anything", and are already laying plans for a more extensive, organized campaign next year. So "moving past" the Puppy business ain't happening unless you have some miraculous means to prevent them from doing what they did this year to next year's ballot.

All I can hope for is that the next version actually does try to nominate stuff I could bring myself to read. Maybe.

[odanu.livejournal.com]

not next year, but one of the changes to the voting rules passed this morning that will prevent *any* slate from taking over the Hugos... it will almost certainly go into effect in 2017. Also, an analysis of the numbers indicates that the Sad Puppies don't have enough nominating votes to slate this year if everyone else is good about voting in every category and getting out the word about good stuff.

I tried *hard* to read the Puppy stuff this year. Most of it was unbearable. And I know that there are a bunch at Baen, but frankly it's the Castilia stuff, by and large, that was gawdawful. And the self published crap.