Sad Puppies, Rabid Puppies lose big at the Hugos UPDATED

AUG 23, 2015
Cixin Liu’s “Three Body Problem” is the first-ever translation to win Best Novel; meanwhile, the uprecedented effort to put together an organized slate of science fiction that appealed to sexist (Sad Puppies) and misogynist/white supremacist (Rabid Puppies) and homophobic (both) orthodoxy to sweep the Hugos was a flop.

Six categories came in as “No Award.” Some particularly galling defeats for the Puppies: Laura Mixon winning Best Fan Writer for her investigative piece on the sociopathic troll Requires Hate (Mixon ended her acceptance speech with “Black lives matter”); and Wesley Chu winning the Campbell Award for Best New Writer (Chu had been outspoken in his criticism of the puppies).