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dingus  ·  3165 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Who Won Science Fiction’s Hugo Awards, and Why It Matters

    The same is true for the books the Puppies are attacking! Go look at the Hugo winners and nominees from the last few years. Time travel, planet terraforming, alien politics, it's all there. None of them on there are solely about pushing gender politics or racial issues. They are, however, starting to include those views in a discussion about what the future looks like. That is what the Puppies are reacting to.

I'll hardly judge books I haven't read. The Sad Puppies aren't in the right; however, they are bringing up a more general issue about what constitutes good sci-fi. It's not their actual positions that are important, its the more generalized version of them., that being the aceptance of political aims in SF.

    That's not really up to you to decide.

Wanting books I like to be recognized for their achievements is totally reasonable, would you agree? Then why can't the Puppies do the same?

    Right, and I'm disagreeing with you, strongly. It's not a fair point. It's an angry point based on a selfish, intolerant worldview.

Filter out the selfishness and intolerance and it's something that warrants discussion.