Based on this information, I cannot consider myself a Hugo winner and will not be citing the 2023 award result in my biographical details, or on this site.
The very easy to link summary included at the very top of the article, before the quote OP gave.
- Several works receiving large numbers of votes were ruled ineligible for unstated reasons, which from leaked emails appears to be the US-based administrators unilaterally deciding that they might cause political offence.
- A number of Chinese-language nominations appear to have been entirely disallowed.
The second, in what seems to be a mass disenfranchisement of Chinese voters, means that the composition of the shortlists, as they were presented to be voted on, was entirely unreliable, with an unknown number of Chinese nominees denied their chance at contending.
Based on this information, I cannot consider myself a Hugo winner and will not be citing the 2023 award result in my biographical details, or on this site.
Based Tchaikovsky. If anyone reading this hasn’t read his stuff, you’re missing out.
Good. The Hugos need to be dissociated from Worldcon and have the rules revamped so organizers have less influence on the process, this incident makes that obvious.
