How to Purchase a Hugo Award

[ysabetwordsmith]

It was meant to be a joke.

But you know where my brain went right to?  How much fun it would be to do that, not for my personal gratification, but to pick something brilliant that otherwise would NEVER have a chance -- something with an asexual protagonist, or a lesbian love story, or written by an obscure person of color -- and ram the damn thing through and let the mainstreamers just choke on it. I would have an absolute ball finding a suitable piece and sponsoring people to carry it.

Maybe I should add this to my list of fun things to do with entirely too much money.

Comments

Re: Well...

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

It was, IIRC, put on the ballot and then there were Questions. I don't recall at this point if the authors or the Hugo administrators are the ones who withdrew it from the ballot.

I mainly remember having read it (well before the ballot came out) and thinking, "OK, I liked the world, didn't like the story and HATED the characters" and being somewhat boggled that it made the ballot.