![]() ![]() “Excluding ‘undesirable’ work is not only embarrassing for all involved parties, but renders the entire process and organization illegitimate. “Until one is provided that explains why the book was eligible for the Nebula and Locus awards, which it won, and not the Hugos, I assume this was a matter of undesirability rather than ineligibility,” she wrote. In a statement on Bluesky, Kuang shared that she was never given a reason for the novel’s ineligibility. Image: 2023 Chengdu Worldcon via Polygonīabel’s disqualification is extremely puzzling, as the book meets all 2023 Best Novel requirements, being a fantasy novel of 40,000 words or more published within the previous calendar year. Instead, its score remained the same until it was knocked out in the final round and declared ineligible. This pattern is beyond strange, as presumably at least some of the votes that had previously gone to the knocked-out books would shift to Babel. Yet as the nominee pool dwindled throughout the consecutive voting rounds, Babel never gained any additional points. Rather than clear things up, this data raised several questions about the integrity of the 2023 Hugo Awards and Babel’s disqualification.Īs the statistics show, Babel had the third-highest number of nominations of the 15 books on the longlist for Best Novel, and only five fewer than the eventual winner, T. This was right on the dot of the 90-day window the Hugo subcommittees have to release the year’s voting data committees typically release it within days of the ceremony. The Hugo Award winners were announced in October 2023, but the Chengdu Worldcon subcommittee didn’t release the voting statistics until late January. Why was Babel ineligible for the Hugo Awards? The lack of answers around the reason for Babel’s ineligibility, along with other unexplained details in the voting data, have left the book community angry, suspicious, and confused. Kuang’s Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence, which was widely favored for the Hugo Awards’ own Best Picture equivalent, Best Novel, after winning the 2023 Nebula and Locus awards for the same. The statistics showed that several works seemingly eligible for the 2023 awards were disqualified without explanation. 20, the SFF literary community was quick to point out and discuss a number of newly revealed oddities. When the Chengdu Worldcon subcommittee released obligatory voting statistics on Jan. ![]() The 2023 awards were announced at the WSFS’ 81st annual Worldcon event in October, held for that year in Chengdu, China. The Hugo Awards are the annual awards program of the World Science Fiction Society (WSFS), which has been celebrating works of sci-fi and fantasy since the 1950s. The science fiction and fantasy literature community is in uproar this week after the release of the voting statistics behind the 2023 Hugo Awards, which have raised accusations that the organizing committee censored the nominees in several categories. ![]()
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