1. There is something about the political controversy over the Hugo Awards that is confusing me. #SadPuppies
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2. As I understand it, the Sad Puppy faction is complaining that the awards have been dominated by left wing, literary works.
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3. As against supposedly left-wing, literary s.f., the Sad Puppy faction champions pulpy, old-fashioned conservative works. Is that right?
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4. My confusion is from the conflation of politics and aesthetics. Why is it assumed the literary s.f. is ipso facto leftwing s.f.
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5. Some literary science fiction is left wing (Le Guin, Delany). But very conservative writers can also write literary s.f.
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6. Gene Wolfe, RA Lafferty, Jack Vance and Robert Silverberg are all right wing, yet they all write (or wrote) s.f. with literary ambitions.
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