DraconCon WTF

[Cyborg Girl]

Hey geonuc, you were there, right? What do you make of this?

http://awards.dragoncon.org/winners/

Best Science Fiction Novel

Somewhither: A Tale of the Unwithering Realm by John C. Wright

You know The Iron Dream? The Norman Spinrad story where Hitler emigrates to America, and makes a career writing SF novels? That's basically John C. Wright.

http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2015/ ... right.html

Rather obviously, he is a Sad Puppy/Rabid Puppy/GGer/etc.

I know there are some good writers who are politically nuts (e.g. Orson Scott Card), but Wright seems to make that his whole shtick. He also bloviates like you wouldn't believe in his blog, mostly about the evils of homosexuality and feminist witches and stuff. I haven't attacked any of his fiction yet; but if it's half as overweeningly bombastic as his blogging, then is does not belong in the same sentence as Card.

... And his novel somehow beat out both Ann Leckie and freaking Kim Stanley Robinson.

How in the hell...

[SciFi Chick]

It's fan driven. Maybe that's why.

[geonuc]

Yeah, there was some discussion about this on the DC forum. The Awards were new this year and many people didn't vote, including me, because we didn't know about it or forgot. The upshot seems to be that the ballot box was stuffed by the same people that brought us Gamergate and that the voting wasn't restricted to actual DC attendees.

Because this was the first year, I think the folks who run DragonCon (a somewhat shady organization) will tweak the process.