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   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   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.     
   >   
   >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.   
      
   Perhaps you are not considering how a /Communist Goverment/ might feel   
   about a novel extolling the virtues of the non-communist past.   
      
   >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.   
   --    
   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
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