Sujet : Re: Babel
De : newsunspammelaws (at) *nospam* iinet.unspamme.net.au (Mad Hamish)
Groupes : rec.arts.sf.written rec.arts.sf.fandomDate : 25. Mar 2024, 00:40:22
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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.
>
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.
>
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