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   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   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.   
      
   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   
   --   
   "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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