Chapter 139: Dead End (900 Orders and Updates!)
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Lin Han's fans are very vindictive, and the time between them is too short, so almost everyone remembers these people who have posted articles criticizing Lin Han and Chinese science fiction. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
I didn't have much confidence to refute before, but now I just have the confidence to show off, and the front foot said that others have no literary value, and the back foot got the Hugo Award nomination, naked slap in the face.
These die-hard fans of the Hanlin Academy are actively giving netizens the Hugo Award, which is not a pheasant award, but a Nobel in the science fiction world.
The Hugo Award and Nebula Award are the world's most important science fiction awards, and each year the participants of the annual meeting vote and select the previous year's science fiction works and authors.
The name comes from Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the famous science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, when he happened to be a special guest at the World Science Fiction Convention that year.
In fact, the Hugo Awards is an open conference, and becoming a member is actually a very simple thing, and its awarding body is the World Science Fiction Association, which does not have any permanent body other than managing its own trademark protection committees for registered trademarks, licenses, and websites.
Lin Han himself is a member who entrusts Penguin Publishing Group to help him register, and he can enter by paying a membership fee of $40.
In fact, the World Science Fiction Association doesn't have a large number of members, and even fewer people cast their ballots each year, and this year's nomination round received a total of 2,400 votes, which is already an all-time high.
Such a small number of votes means that the threshold for manipulating the award process is not high, as long as there are a few hundred people willing to pay $40.
It stands to reason that awards for "Best Novel" require reading as many works as possible that are eligible for nomination, and then selecting the best of them.
That's why the World Science Fiction Association sends out electronic packaging documents to all the works eligible for the award 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 writer, 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 support the World Science Fiction Convention in the real sense, or maybe their real purpose is to vote for the Hugo Awards.
Regardless of the faction of these new paid members, it's not a good thing. Maybe they're a traditional readership who wants to take back their awards, or they're sad puppies who want their nominees to win, or maybe they're protesting non-awarders.
The gold content of this kind of award is naturally extraordinary, and the nomination of "I, Robot" is just like the original "Three-Body Problem", which completely detonated the attention at home and abroad.
Regardless of whether he can win the award or not, Lin Han has already attracted enough attention in the European and American science fiction circles, which is what many science fiction readers have always wanted to see!
"Lin Han was upset and shortlisted for the Hugo Award!"
"I, Robot" has become the biggest dark horse of this year's Hugo Awards"
"The Last Earthling" is concise and to the point, leaving endless room for reverie, and has been sought after and continued by many readers. ”
"Experts analyze the list of nominees for this Hugo Award, it is a fluke to be shortlisted, and it is a historic achievement for Lin Han to be nominated for the double award!"
"Foreign media broke the news that "I, Robot" received rave reviews, and the Puppy Gang threatened that Lin Han ended up with zero awards, the most dramatic Hugo Award in history"
For the book "I, Robot" to enter the final list, many media have used words such as upset, dark horse, and accident to report, it seems that the quality of this book is very poor, and it is all up to luck to be shortlisted.
The domestic media basically look down on Lin Han's award-winning luck, this is a Yankee award, and he must take care of his own people, just like the Oscars, the vast majority of the winners are Americans, just leaking two grains of rice from between their fingers for the sake of political correctness.
For this so-called puppy gang, Lin Han has also heard a little, they are a right-wing science fiction writers' organization in the United States, and they are in a political demand, and have launched a canvassing operation of "sad puppy" and "rampaging puppy", listing a list of novels that meet the aesthetic taste of ****, and calling 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 Awards have been largely dominated by white men, and most of the nominees are white, and most of them are men.
But in recent years, the Hugo Awards have begun to become diverse, and I don't know if it is in response to racial equality and the feminist movement, many white men have appeared in the list of nominations and even awards, including minority women writers.
Powerful American right-wing science fiction writers are conservatives who feel they have won a Hugo Award, and they are especially unhappy with the so-called politically correct character work.
Wanting to reassign the award to white men, he made disparaging remarks about science fiction writers and female writers of other races, not only scolding a black female science fiction writer as an "educated but ignorant semi-savage", but also blasting a female science fiction editor as a "fat frog".
Although the so-called "puppy gang" has a bad reputation and is almost the object of condemnation abroad, these two puppy projects have jointly influenced the selection of this year's Hugo Awards.
Of the 85 nominations for a total of 17 awards given on the books, 61 nominations are consistent with those given by the "Puppy Canvassing Campaign", and the biggest surprise is Lin Han's two novels.
As a white supremacist puppy gang, they naturally hated Lin Han's accident, and shouted on their Twitter that the yellow-skinned China people are not worthy of writing science fiction!
When the media began to report on the two movements of the puppy gang on a large scale, netizens who were still noisy instantly became angry, you can target Lin Han, you can target a certain work, but directly and comprehensively deny what is really unacceptable to Chinese.
So wave after wave of netizens rushed to Facebook, ready to blow up the Facebook accounts of these puppy gang members, so that they could see the power of oriental emojis.
"What years have it been, and there is still racial discrimination? Let these people's works be sold, that will affect the children! I suggest that the United States ban these cheap puppy gangs for the sake of political correctness."
"Paralyzed, if you want to win an award and build one yourself, canvassing everywhere is to engage in wool. If you canvass for votes, you will canvass for votes, don't slander and insult the rest of the people, the quality is too low!"
"Is there no one in China who bullies us? We don't have anything, it's just that there are a lot of people, now everyone go and register a member account of the Science Fiction Association, and blow up your puppy gang in minutes. ”
"It's disgusting, how can this kind of person write a good novel, no wonder Lin Han's book sells so well. If the United States wants all this kind of science fiction writers, it will directly send Chinese writers to take them over. ”
"The emperor will go on an expedition, and there will be no grass! Kill you little dog gang, it will not be a white dog, a white pig!"
(To be continued.) )