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   From: petertrei@gmail.com   
      
   On 3/25/2024 11:29 PM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:   
   > On 3/25/24 2:18 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:   
   >> Mad Hamish   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.   
      
   Regardless of nigglined edge cases, the point remains. Russia has   
   been invaded many times in history, while the US mainland has not.   
      
   pt   
      
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