“In those cases, the content of the story is practically irrelevant. It was that head puppy Brad Torgersen and his supporters bashed previous Hugo winners as beneficiaries of “tokenism and affirmative action, for the sake of the sexuality, gender, and ethnicity of the authors themselves.” Gallo’s comments may have caused.”ĭoherty asserted that “media coverage of the two groups initially suggested that they were organized simply to promote white men, which was not correct,” and listed a handful of women and people of color on both the Sad Puppies and Rabid Puppies’ slates.īut the problem with the Puppies was never that they only nominated white men. On Monday, 79-year-old Tor founder and president Tom Doherty gave Gallo a public dressing-down on the publisher’s blog and apologized to the Puppies for “any confusion Ms. They started tweeting about Gallo and spamming her with angry Facebook comments. When the Puppies and their supporters learned of the message over the weekend, they were pissed.

She also explained who the Puppies are in strong-but not entirely inaccurate-terms: Tor Books, America’s largest SF/F publishing house, reprimanded one of its employees for coming out against the Puppies on her personal Facebook page, and apologized to the groups-who stand for removing social justice issues from science fiction-on her behalf.īack in May, associate publisher/creative director Irene Gallo linked to an announcement that Tor plans to publish The Geek Feminist Revolution, by Hugo-nominated author Kameron Hurley, and said she was proud to help make the Sad Puppies even sadder. Until recently, you might have lived a life blissfully unaware of the online #Gamergate movement.… What Is Gamergate, and Why? An Explainer for Non-Geeks

Now one of the biggest publishers in sci-fi and fantasy seems to have come out in support (or at least appeasement) of those same groups, known as Sad Puppies and Rabid Puppies.

Earlier this year, two campaigns variously made up of traditionalist sci-fi fans, neoreactionaries, Gamergaters and other flavors of angry white dude hijacked the nominations for one of sci-fi’s most prestigious awards, the Hugo.

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