Did I Get Too Many Nominations?
John C Wright has had six Hugo nominations in his career. Let us compare:
- Patrick Hayden: 15 nominations (one declined)
- Charles Stross: 15 nominations
- Mike Glyer: 50 nominations (nine wins, two declined)
- John Scalzi: 9 nominations
- Alexis Gilliand: 8 nominations (four wins)
- Theresa Hayden: 5 nominations
- Seanan McGuire 5 nominations in one year….
I am not so impertinent as to dispute the tastes or judgment of the fans who ponied up the money and took the time to nominated me. They are my employers; their word is my law.
So far, in this tempest in a teardrop (it is too small for my teapot) there has been exactly one of my detractors who claimed my work was undeserving of notice, but countless detractors calling me a racist misogynist bigot ballotbox-stuffing flying purple people eater.
I will leave the flying purple people eating accusations unanswered for now, because they are trivial, irrelevant and stupid.
As to those who claim that we are introducing foreigners, gamergaters, or the unwashed masses into the pristine tower of science fiction, the numbers speak for themselves. We can take the Amazon rankings of books as a rough measure of the popularity of a work.
AVERAGE AMAZON RATINGS for Best Novel category
4.60 = Rabid Puppies
4.64 = Sad Puppies
4.46 = 2015 shortlist
3.90 = 2010-2013 shortlistsNUMBER OF HUGO NOMINATIONS
15: Patrick Nielsen Hayden
15: Charles Stross
12: Isaac Asimov
12: Robert Heinlein
09: John Scalzi
08: Jerry Pournelle
07: Arthur C. Clarke
06: John C. Wright
Ask yourself who has delivered more quality work, more popular, to the Hugo shortlist? The Sad Puppies, or the previous cliques? The numbers prove objectively that our suggested slate better represents the tastes of the SF public.
As to the one and only one fellow who thought my science fiction writing in general was inferior to the social justice fiction he and his prefer. On what this was based, you are as free to speculate as I, since he had read none of the works.
To him, I have but one reply.
Read. Compare. Judge.
Here is the list. (I will provide links as soon as my publisher makes them available.)
- One Bright Star to Guide Them
- Pale Realms of Shade
- The Plural of Helen of Troy
- Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
- The Parliament of Beasts and Birds
- Transhuman and Subhuman
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
