You are aware that writers have used nom de plumes for years, right? Both in romance and SF.

Nice, vague claim. Name them.

Authors should concentrate on writing, not electioneering awards for themselves.

Indeed. They should also concentrate on writing *their* story, not something forced upon them by a group of people with an agenda of whatever kind or to participate in said group. Some of those groups would have the author tailor their stories to include characters and themes not of the author's choosing.

I think that's more of what is going on than getting a specific slate voted in. The breaking of the lock Tor and others have had on the industry. And breaking the pre-writing agenda many have inserted into the mix, which has been going of for a few years now.

I posted a comment on a SF blog once that was trying to push the inclusion of trans/homosexual/other than cis in their stories. Basically (paraphrased): 'Write your story, not what someone else thinks you should write. Design your characters to tell your story, not someone else's. It if sells, it sells. If it doesn't, think about why.'

The push back was immediate and basically 'So you don't want criticism?' Seems they couldn't realize criticism comes after the story is written.

This is why I go back and check my own posts. Rather apologize for a mistake than let it hang.

Crap. Got threads confused. Not Scalzi. Apologies to Scalzi and all.

By the way, I find it amusing that he titled that post "My Hugo Slate".

Then you missed this. I found it in about one minute.

To pull a quote from that linked article: "Current estimates, cited earlier this year by Vice President Joe Biden, hold that one in five women will be sexually assaulted while in college."

An utterly debunked stat and yet she still believes it. Her sky is demonstrably not blue.

This might be due to the ganging up of the SJWs on the victims. This is what pisses off a large group of people, both conservative and liberal, and generates a large response. If, however, you compare the arshole comments of the SJWs to those attacking them, it's a push.

Same AC, same lie, different words.

Fantastic creatures and superhuman abilities are much more fantasy than *science* fiction. It's all a generic pool more accurately referred to as speculative fiction. Even Asimov admitted he had to throw science out to write his stories on occasion. If you define science fiction narrowly, you can't even have reasonable time frame interstellar communication, much less travel.

Not possible with published works. Even if you strip off the cover and all credit pages, you'd have to find judges who haven't read the book. How to do? Ask if they've read the title? Now they can find the author.

And yet, if you actually check that existence, you find ever greater freedoms, greater resistance to totalitarianism, longer life spans with greater health and comforts and an accumulation of knowledge unknown in the past. You seem to equate not having achieved a perfect state with stasis. I find it a bit sad *not* to be optimistic.

You can just tell from looking at the pictures of her that she is a Republican.

YAAFM

Nowhere in the Bible is she mentioned as being a whore.