Hypocritical Fool....

[daveon]

So let me get this straight, John C Wright had the shear rank audacity to pen this:

Meanwhile, giants in the field, men such as Terry Pratchett, may he rest in peace, of Jim Butcher, long may his pen unleash the wild magic, go unnoticed and scornedIgnoring for a moment that Jim Bitcher isn't really a giant in the field and that Terry Pratchett

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[autopope]

Also, Terry WAS offered the Hugo nomination for Best Novel on at least one occasion: he turned it down because he found waiting in the audience for the announcement too stressful, and he didn't need the anxiety (he had angina back then).

He was #5 in the nominee ranking. I was #6. I know this happened because I ended up with his stress (and I lost, too) and I personally asked him about this afterwards.

JCW really is a special piece of work.

[daveon]

Well, yes, indeed.

He is a special kind of person isn't he?

[kevin_standlee]

Charlie:

I used the case of you and Terry as a counter-example to one of the people asking me if the correlation between number of nominations received wasn't the sign of the Sekrit Slate. I said that if you sift enough numbers, you'll eventually find correlations. As it happens, the numbers on the 2005 ballot were close enough to play these sort of games. I concluded that the Sekrit Slate ordered Terry to withdraw so that the Orbit Drones could get a pair of works on the ballot, but one of the Orbit Drones didn't get the memo and forgot to vote. I haven't heard a response yet.

To be fair, the SP are not a bunch of drones marching in lockstep. Many of them believe passionately in what they're voting for. I expect that many of them have swallowed the line about Sekrit Voting Slate Orders from the Evil Scali or the Evil Tor or the Evil Stross or whatever. If I can sow a little doubt in the minds of any of them that haven't completely drank the Kool-Aid, I'll feel it was worthwhile.

[pauldormer]

The occasion I know of Terry withdrawing was when I was administrator in 2005. Going Postal was number 3 and his dropping out brought in The Algebraist by Iain Banks. (The Family Trade was at 12 and The Atrocity Archives at 17. I still have the counting stats on my computer.)

As it happened, when I'd processed all the nominations, it was decided to contact all the best novel finalists first and I was given the e-mails of all five. Terry responded almost by return of post.

[soon_lee]

Thank you for putting the two comments together. I thought I saw it too but my Google-fu was failing.

[mevennen]

I hadn't noticed that Jim Butcher was 'scorned,' exactly

[landsmand]

I'm gathering that fans of speculative fiction are having some sort of internecine spat?

Shit, I always miss this kind of thing, I just read the stuff, me.