Re: Babel

On 5 Mar 2024 01:35:28 -0000, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:

So, I am reading Rebecca Kuang's _Babel_ to see just what it was that the
Hugo Committee may have objected to, and I find it extremely pro-Chinese.
It is strongly against British imperialism and against the Opium War, and
the Chinese government of the time may not have been very strong but was
determined. 

I think I've heard that the issue isn't the current work but that
she's written stuff critical of China in the past.

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If her previous works were anti-Chinese, I don't know.  But this seems
sufficiently against that that I would expect it would more than make up
for that.
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This book, I might add, is also very well written and extremely entertaining
and was just a great read that thoroughly deserved a Hugo.  If it had been
on the ballot I would have voted for it.  Is there hope for a Nebula maybe?
There were some odd technical problems which all could have been accounted
for by the differences between our universe and theirs but which did seem a
little glaring.  But it was still great.
--scott