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On 3/25/2024 11:29 PM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:
> On 3/25/24 2:18 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> Mad Hamish  <newsunspammelaws@iinet.unspamme.net.au> 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.

Regardless of nigglined edge cases, the point remains. Russia has
been invaded many times in history, while the US mainland has not.

pt