Re: Babel

On 3/25/24 2:18 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:

Mad Hamish  <newsunspammelaws@iinet.unspamme.net.au> wrote:

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.

 Which would be even WORSE because it would be punishing her for "reforming"
and finally writing something less critical.
 Whatever it was, it was sure a mess.
--scott

As I noted elsewhere, the good news is that all this resulted in a lot of publicity for the book, which could well reach a wider audience than if it *had* won the Hugo.
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