The people running the Hugo's are a bunch of weak little weeds blowing in whatever direction their current political and social wind blows. They set a standard that has nothing to do with the competency and quality of the authors. They have repeatedly over the years censored good authors for a host of reasons including their race although they wouldn't admit that. Instead they come up with other excuses. So its no surprise that its political views they deemed unpopular by a dictatorship this year. I quit paying any attention to them a decade back.