Hugo award nominees withdraw amid 'Puppygate' storm

Campaign to load nominations for the prestigious SF awards with more conservative authors prompts Marko Kloos and Annie Bellet to pull out

‘I want to be nominated for awards because of the work, not because of the ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ politics’ ... Marko Kloos with his dog Ygraine. Photograph: PR

Alison Flood

Friday 17 April 2015 The Guardian

Two authors have withdrawn their work from contention for the prestigious Hugo science fiction awards in the wake of what George RR Martin has called “Puppygate”, the controversy that has “plunged all fandom into war”.

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