Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Evelyn C. Leeper" Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.sf.fandom Subject: Re: Babel Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 23:29:39 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 04:29:39 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="cc3cb1f07ace10f083c96c7bf73b9ff5"; logging-data="1672376"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX193GqlvyRwGKl/Ycs8yGnj5" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:A83q2aX/I5KrHYDNNxvjEMswQIg= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2290 On 3/25/24 2:18 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote: > Mad Hamish wrote: >> On 5 Mar 2024 01:35:28 -0000, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote: >> >>> So, I am reading Rebecca Kuang's _Babel_ to see just what it was that the >>> Hugo Committee may have objected to, and I find it extremely pro-Chinese. >>> It is strongly against British imperialism and against the Opium War, and >>> the Chinese government of the time may not have been very strong but was >>> determined. >> >> I think I've heard that the issue isn't the current work but that >> she's written stuff critical of China in the past. > > Which would be even WORSE because it would be punishing her for "reforming" > and finally writing something less critical. > > Whatever it was, it was sure a mess. > --scott As I noted elsewhere, the good news is that all this resulted in a lot of publicity for the book, which could well reach a wider audience than if it *had* won the Hugo. -- Evelyn C. Leeper, http://leepers.us/evelyn, @eleeper@mastodon.social Musk cares about the border because "the border" is a publicly- acceptable euphemism for white supremacy. [@passenger@mastodon.social]