From: evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com   
      
   On 3/4/24 8:35 PM, 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.   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   It already won the Nebula.   
      
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