Which undeserving stories/authors exemplify this?
I'm not familiar with any of the other winners.
Which of these are monsters on par with the big winners from the 60's through 90's?
There are a lot of people saying that the current trend is a backlash against sad puppies (which would also be wrong) while simultaneously denying that it was happening before sad puppies.
My experience is they were doing this, the sad puppies blew it up, now it seems to be happening with impunity. There are alternate more conservative cons out there, maybe the two groups have separated entirely.
Putting all the blame on the sad puppies (who, again are wrong, but I have to say this because people like painting anyone who disagrees as right wing fascist) isn't taking in the whole picture.
> Of the winners, I've only read The Three Body Problem, which I liked for a number of reasons.
I may be misunderstanding you, but if you didn't read the books, how did you judge the quality of the stories? Did you perhaps read the nominations, if so, please let me know any that you feel was not deserving and the possibly got nominated based on author's identity.
I haven't read them, I haven't judged them.
I'm reporting to you and anyone else who read it that while in attendance at worldcons pre-sad puppies, there was active campaigning for books based on the identity of the author. Sad puppies did not occur in a vacuum. I'm in no way justifying any stuffing the vote or any other shenanigans.
I will say that the last 10 years of winners are certainly more obscure than any 10 years from 1960-2000. Individually an obscure book may be great. As a trend it seems unlikely.
I may be missing out on something from the last 10 years. But after 40+ years of reading, why am I not getting recommendations on anything in the last 10 years (again, except for Three Body Problem)? You dodged that question also. No recommendations from the last 10 years? Why is that?
I won't read something just because it's written by a woman or minority. -- me
I won't read something if it's written by a minority. -- not me
I won't read something just because it's written by a man. -- also me
I'll read something if it is recommended. -- I may judge the recommender if it is awful
I'll read something if the story sounds interesting. -- very little emphasis of this at worlcon
