When you get up, year after year, and tell increasingly diverse groups of Hugo winners and losers the same stories about you and your buddies, without acknowledging the development of the field the awards are meant to honor, it's not about the Hugos. It's about ego.
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Or he could just... keep doing what he's doing, and worldcon can keep letting him: having the singular event associated with the awards run by someone who isn't part of the con every single year, so that the concom can only shrug apologetically whenever there's a cockup.
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I appreciate the love GRRM has for the Hugos as an institution, but the institution is not the same as the people who comprise it, who appear on the ballots each year, and when his parties and nostalgic speechifying alienate those people... who or what is he serving, really?
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If GRRM and worldcon want the Hugos to both retain the legacy they already have while continuing to have a future, then the issue of how the ceremony is handled, who runs the parties and who is included in both will need to be dealt with sooner rather than later.
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minor correction - I somehow typed that GoT was in its first season in 2014 instead of its third. d'oh!
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Foz's lay-it-all-out threads are basically lwj against mooks :Dpic.twitter.com/IhfSrA59Hn
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Until recently (2016 ish IIRC) the following year’s Worldcon would run the Hugo Losers’ Party. In 2016 GRRM did his own thing, against the 2017 run HLP, and we know where everyone went. No Worldcon can compete with his budget.
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He ran one in 2015 in Spokane, too. I think more people went to both than in 2016 (the one in 2016 was much closer to the convention center than the one in 2015, IIRC).
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