Follow-Up

[supergee]

As I mentioned here a couple of days ago, Jeannette Ng took the occasion of winning the John W. Campbell Award to remind fandom of a few home truths about the award’s eponymous figure. Hilarity, or something, ensued. Mike Glyer, at File 770, has done his usual thorough job of reporting the kerfuffle, from the reasoned responses of John Scalzi and Cory Doctorow to Arvid Engholm’s curious theory that Ms. Ng violated the Codes of Conduct by molesting a ghost.

Comments

[kaffy_r]

Thanks for the link. It makes me happy that so many people signed on to Ms Ng's point of view, and that Mr. Engholm seems to be in a minority.

[minoanmiss]

One of the things that bugged me in the discussion were the people who said "she could have just declined the award," because, among other reasons why not, she used the platform it gave her to make a statement that wasn't just about her but about all of us ill-served by the culture of SF, no matter how much those people want to think it was just her.