Pack awards with your cronies and coreligionists, force out dissenters, nominate a bunch of boutique, agenda-driven, crap fiction, elevate the new nominees to the true face of the industry, let them throw fits and demand further concessions and purification, repeat.
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Replying to @TheClarksTale
The industry's fucking dead as a doornail, this is all hothouse status-gaming for penny stakes.
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Replying to @St_Rev
Yes, but it's worth mourning. Which, I know, is separate from this.
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Replying to @TheClarksTale
Not that separate. I used to love going to cons.
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Replying to @St_Rev
Me too. Won prizes, was staff, etc. Fun times hanging with Niven & Pournelle.
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Replying to @TheClarksTale
There'd always be some angry borderliner who'd cause a scene during a panel or author Q&A, you'd learn to spot them and keep your distance. Now they're running everything.
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