Tag: Sad Puppies

The Dragons Ride Again

It seems like forever ago that a ragtag bunch of newpub, Baen, and Castalia House authors dominated the first annual Dragon Awards. That day was an early career highlight, and I'm still thankful to my readers and supporters. What would become the current dissident scene was still taking shape back…

July 7, 20233 Comments

No American Man

Has won a Hugo Award since 2010. Special thanks: @MorlockP Kidding aside, we've now gained enough distance from the Sad/Rabid Puppies campaigns to do a proper postmortem on the Hugos. To recap, author Larry Correia started the Campaign to End Puppy-Related Sadness when he smelled something rotten among the oldpub…

December 4, 201912 Comments

Unimaginative CHORFs

The 2018 Hugo Award winners were announced on Sunday night at World Con in San Jose. Frequent readers will recall that I made a prediction regarding the Best Novel Award. Let's see how my prediction of a Jemisin triple crown panned out. Those are the Best Novel Hugo Award results…

August 21, 201814 Comments

#owngoals: World Con Edition

Courtesy of author Yakov Merkin Even before the Campaign to End Puppy-related Sadness was a glimmer in Larry Correia's eye, it was an open secret among normal SFF fans and authors that World Con had entered terminal decline. If you don't know what World Con is, you're not alone, and…

July 24, 201818 Comments

The Sad Puppies Saga Explained

The most common reaction when people find out I was nominated for a Hugo Award is for them to ask "What's a Hugo Award?" So I wouldn't be surprised if the number of people who are vaguely aware of propaganda claiming that right-wing bigots tried to deny women and minorities…

December 12, 20166 Comments

The Puppy of the Month Book Club Reviews Nethereal

Nathan Housley, Jon Mollison, and The Frisky Pagan have chosen my first novel Nethereal as their inaugural entry in the Puppy of the Month Book Club, which they explain thusly: The Puppy of the Month Book Club is a collection of science-fiction and fantasy fans who favor the open minded diversity…

September 12, 2016

Sad Puppies’ Kate Paulk Reviews all Hugo Award Nominees

With five days of Hugo Award voting left, Sad Puppies IV leader Kate "The Impaler" Paulk concludes her reviews of works in every nominated category. The Campbells being the last category on the list, it just so happens that Kate's final series of reviews includes my eligible novel Nethereal. I…

July 28, 20163 Comments

Sad Puppies: The Superversive Mandate

The highly anticipated Sad Puppies 4 recommended reading list has been released. Just in the nick of time for Hugo Award nominations, which close at the end of this month, these works were suggested by SF fans from around the world and across the web. The full list can be…

March 18, 201610 Comments

Sad Puppies: Cognitive Dissonance Makes Our Enemies Oblivious

Predictably, my recent post about how advances in media technology are driving the Sad Puppies phenomenon--and the hostile reactions of its detractors--drew hostile reactions from SP's detractors. I argued that new tribes of science fiction fans are forming around movies, video games, and eBooks; leaving the New York publishing establishment ever…

February 14, 20166 Comments

Sad Puppies: Lords Temporal and Spiritual

Last time, we talked about the drastic changes currently underway in sci-fi fandom, and the media that are driving those changes. People with their fingers on the pulse of fandom have observed that SF is becoming more tribalistic. They're right. Due to the dominance of movies, TV shows, video games,…

February 1, 20168 Comments