I feel like this would be much, much funnier if they were all quotes that sound superficially deep enough to be attributed to her, but fall apart completely if you actually think about them.

Yes, he writes good stuff (sometimes), but I wouldn't want to be his beer buddy. But I would probably run in fear from Orson Scott Card and I love Ender's Game. Same for Lovercraft (he would have run in fear from me, me being Czech...) and many more writers.

Wright is a modern master. His Phoenix trilogy is more origina, entertaining, and complex than nearly all the material pimped on this website. He is an amazing author who holds conservative political views. Oh for the days when one could enjoy Heinlein, Clarke, and Dick.

What a load of horseshit. Clare Winger Harris and Gertrude Barrows Bennett disagree with you. Women have used their own names in science fiction since the beginning. Actual published writers, not wannabes. Your safety has never been in question... whether you're taken seriously or not is up to you.

What, like Jo Walton or Lois Bujold? Or Toni Weisskopf and Anne Sowards and Sheila Gilbert, who make up 3 of the 4 nominees for Best Long Form Editor?

The novel category this year is still pretty good.

His works are actually pretty good. I find it a little comical that because you haven't heard of him before you're willing to write him off as a poor nominee and an effect of the "gamed" system.

Exactly. You can't scream for diversity and then be pissed off by seeing a viewpoint different from yours. What a boring world it would be if we all agreed on everything.

Bit melodramatic aren't we? No one is hunting down female authors in developed western nations... If you lived in the middle east than yes, you would fear for your own safety. Granted if you were writing sci fi than both genders would probably be at risk.

Actually a lot of Science fiction fans have historically leaned to the right, so your statement that Sci-fi fans wouldn't like a conservative leaning author is not valid. While I would agree that there should be a limit to the number of nominations a single person could get per year, it'd seem to me that your basing…

"Awards are generally about qualities beyond entertainment."

Six nominations for one guy is too much, but I was merely addressing the balance between literary works, and works intended to be casually enjoyable. Also, you seem to be implying that people should not be eligible based on their political views, and I believe that is an ultimately unfair and counterproductive stance…

People have been complaining for years about the greying of fandom, and how we need to bring new people it.

anne mccaffrey and Lois McMaster Bujold call bullshit on your hyperbole.

I'd like to preface my reply by stating that I'm not for Sad Puppies, but neither am I against them. I AM against the escalation of politics here, but hope this results in overall improvement of the awards system.

Why on earth would you need to use a gender neutral pseudonym? Kary English, Cedar Sanderson, Annie Bellet, Megan Grey, Tori Weisskopf, Anne Sowards, Sheila Gilbert, and Amanda Green don't.

It seems like you're disagreeing with me because you disagree with their agenda, in any case, who said anything about clever? The whole point of gaming the system is manipulating the rules in order to reach a desired outcome, they got it. They already seem to hold the Hugos in low regard, so any damage to the awards…

No, no single joke is worth that kind of censorship. When you start censoring what offends one group, then you’ll have to start censoring what offends ANOTHER group, and if you’ve already censored what those groups hate, it’d be unfair if you didn’t censor what offends Group C, and now you have a world devoid of any…

I think it is hilarious and could have written it myself. I have lived with gay roommates .. been to drag shows.. People offended by this are close minded.

Here’s the thing. It’s simply a joke. No one group is free of being targeted by jokes. Some are certainly tasteless, but nothing in there was worthy of being removed whatsoever.