Larry Correia Strikes a Blow Against Puppy Related Sadness
Natalie Luhrs is annoyed that Larry Correia is encouraging people to vote for himself and other writers he likes for the Hugos this year. That is, she argues, properly a privilege that belongs to her and her own snooty friends on the Left. And we certainly shouldn't link to Correia's post
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I agree that Vox Day's opinions are not congruent with society. However, neither are China Mieville's, and he's won a Hugo. (Mieville's views seem more repugnant than Vox Day's to me.) It seems to me that SF and Fantasy fans have to choose between one of two situations:
1. We judge the quality of the work, not the political views of the author.
Or
2. We only allow authors with mainstream political views, whether of the left or of the right to be nominated.
My preference would be option 1. Most of the angry voices on the internet seem to prefer a third option:
3. We allow only left-wing and extreme left-wing (even cultural Marxist and traditional Marxist) authors to be nominated.
If we do get to 3 (and I could see it happen), then fine. Just call the Hugo an award for socialist science fiction or something - just as the Prometheus is the award for libertarian science fiction. We'd then need two more new awards - a new award for conservative science fiction and a general award for science fiction novel / novella / short story more like what the Hugo used to be. (Maybe the Nebula is this already.)
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We definitely need a new award then.
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