Chapter 139 Fighting to the End (900
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Lin Han’s fans are very revenge, and the interval here is too short, so almost everyone remembers these people who have posted articles to criticize Lin Han and Chinese science fiction novels.
I didn’t have any confidence in refuting before, but now I just show off with confidence. I just said that others have no literary value, but I got nominated for the Hugo Award and slapped the naked face.
These hardcore fans of the Hanlin Academy are actively promoting the Hugo Awards to netizens. This is not a pheasant award, but a Nobel in the science fiction world.
The Hugo Awards and the Nebula Awards are the most important science fiction awards in the world. Every year, participants of the annual meeting vote and select the science fiction works and authors of the previous year.
The name comes from Hugo Gensbuck, the founder of the famous science fiction magazine Marvel Story, who happened to be a special guest at the World Science Fiction Conference that year.
In fact, the Hugo Award is an open conference, and becoming a member is actually a very simple thing. Its awarding agency is the World Science Fiction Association. Its awarding agency does not have any permanent institutions except for the trademark protection committee that manages its own registered trademarks, licenses and websites.
Lin Han himself is a member who commissioned Penguin Publishing Group to help him register. He can enter by paying a membership of $40.
In fact, the number of members of the World Science Fiction Association is actually not large, and fewer votes are casting votes every year. This year's nomination round received a total of 2,400 votes, which is already the highest level in history.
Such a small number of votes means that the threshold for manipulating the awards process is not high, as long as there are hundreds of people willing to pay $40.
In theory, choosing the awards of "Best Novels" requires reading as many works that are qualified to be nominated, and then selecting the best ones from them.
Therefore, the World Science Fiction Association sends members an electronic package file for all works that are eligible to participate in the award selection every year, but the participants in the canvassing campaign are basically not voting for this purpose.
According to an article by George Johnny, a famous foreign science fiction novelist, the World Science Fiction Association added 1,340 paid members in March this year, an unprecedented number.
I'm afraid that only a very small number of these people want to truly support the World Science Fiction Conference. Perhaps their real purpose is to vote on the Hugo Awards.
No matter which faction these newly added paid members come from, it is not a good thing. Perhaps they are traditional readers who want to regain their awards, perhaps they are sad puppies who want to win their nomination list, or perhaps they represent protesting non-granting sects, and there are many possibilities.
The value of this award is naturally extraordinary. I, the robot won the nomination just like the three-body in the past, completely igniting the attention at home and abroad.
Regardless of whether he can win the award or not, Lin Han has attracted enough attention in the European and American science fiction worlds. This is what many science fiction readers have always wanted to see!
"Lin Han was shortlisted for the Hugo Award!"
"I, robots have become the biggest dark horse of this Hugo Awards"
"Can a sentence be considered a science fiction novel? The last Earthling was concise and left endless space for imagination, and was sought after by many readers and continued writing."
"Experts analyze the list of nominations for this Hugo Award. It is a lucky thing to be shortlisted. Lin Han is nominated for double awards is a historic achievement!"
"Foreign media revealed that I have received rave reviews from robots, and the puppy Gang threatened that Lin Han would end the zero prize, the most dramatic Hugo Award in history"
For me, the book Robot can be included in the final list. Many media have used words such as upset, dark horse, accident, etc. to report on it. It seems that the quality of this book is very poor, and it depends entirely on luck to be included.
Domestic media basically look down on Lin Han's winning luck. This is an American award presentation and must take care of his own people. Just like the Oscars, most of the winners are Americans, and they just leak two grains of rice from their fingers for political correctness.
Lin Han also heard a little about this so-called puppy gang. They are considered to be the right-wing science fiction writer organization in the United States. They are in political demands and have successively launched the canvassing campaigns of "Sad Puppy" and "Rampant Puppy" to list a list of novels that are in line with aesthetic tastes, and called on members of the World Science Fiction Association who hold similar political views to vote according to their list.
From 1953 to the present, the major awards of the Hugo Award have been basically controlled by white men, and most of the nominations are white, and most of them are male.
However, in recent years, the Hugo Awards have begun to become diversified. I don’t know if it is to respond to racial equality and feminist movements. Many white men have appeared on the list of nominations and even awards, including minority drink female writers.
The strong American right-wing science fiction writers are conservatives. They feel that they have received the Hugo Award and are particularly dissatisfied with the so-called politically correct characters.
He wanted to re-allocate the awards into the hands of white men, so he spoke rudely to science fiction writers and female writers of other races, not only scolding a black female science fiction writer as an "educated but ignorant semi-barbarian" but also criticizing a science fiction female editor as a "fat frog".
Although this so-called "Puppy Gang" has a bad reputation and is almost everyone's object of condemnation abroad, these two puppy plans have worked together to influence the selection of this Hugo Award.
Of the 85 nominations for 17 awards given on the books, 61 are consistent with those given by the "Puppy Canvassing Campaign". The biggest surprise is Lin Han's two novels.
As a white supreme puppy gang, he naturally hated Lin Han's accident, and the Chinese people who clamored on their Twitter that yellow skin were not worthy of writing science fiction novels!
When the media began to report on two movements of the puppy gang on a large scale, netizens who were still making noises were instantly angry. You can target Lin Han or a certain work, but directly deny things that Chinese people really cannot accept in all aspects.
So wave after wave of netizens rushed to Facebook, preparing to explode the Facebook accounts of these members of the Puppy Gang to let them see the power of Oriental emoticons.
"What time has it been, and there is still racial discrimination? Let these people sell their works, that will affect the children! It is recommended that the United States ban these petty puppy gangs for political correctness."
"I want to win the award and build one by myself. You canvass the votes everywhere and make yarn. If you canvass, you canvass the votes. Don't slander and insult others. The quality is too low!"
"Is there no one in China bullying us? We have nothing, but there are many people. Now everyone registers a member account of a science fiction association and will explode your puppy gang in minutes."
"It's so disgusting. How could such a person write good novels? No wonder Lin Han's books sell so well. If the United States has such science fiction writers, they will directly send Chinese writers to take over them."
"The emperor went to war, no grass would grow! Kill you puppy gang, it's not a bad thing that they are white dogs and white-skinned pigs!"
To be continued.
Chapter completed!