Someone spent $19,000 dollars to stuff the Hugo Award ballot
box in a way that seems either very, very ineptly or in a
manner calculated to be spotted.
https://glasgow2024.org/hugo-awards/statement-22-july-2024/
Now, I do recall a case in the 1980s, I think, where an exuberant
fan tried to buy a story he liked a Hugo, using consecutively
numbered traveller's checks to buy memberships. So people do
fuck up comprehensively. But it could also be someone really dislikes Finalist A and wanted to make them look bad.
Now, I do recall a case in the 1980s, I think, where an exuberant
fan tried to buy a story he liked a Hugo, using consecutively
numbered traveller's checks to buy memberships. So people do
fuck up comprehensively. But it could also be someone really dislikes Finalist A and wanted to make them look bad.
On 7/22/2024 4:01 PM, James Nicoll wrote:
Someone spent $19,000 dollars to stuff the Hugo Award ballot
box in a way that seems either very, very ineptly or in a
manner calculated to be spotted.
https://glasgow2024.org/hugo-awards/statement-22-july-2024/
Now, I do recall a case in the 1980s, I think, where an exuberant
fan tried to buy a story he liked a Hugo, using consecutively
numbered traveller's checks to buy memberships. So people do
fuck up comprehensively. But it could also be someone really dislikes
Finalist A and wanted to make them look bad.
Or -- conceivably -- someone who dislikes the Hugo award as an institution.
On 7/22/2024 4:01 PM, James Nicoll wrote:
Now, I do recall a case in the 1980s, I think, where an exuberant
fan tried to buy a story he liked a Hugo, using consecutively
numbered traveller's checks to buy memberships. So people do
fuck up comprehensively. But it could also be someone really dislikes
Finalist A and wanted to make them look bad.
https://fancyclopedia.org/1989_Hugos#Consecutively_Numbered_Money_Orders
In article <v7mr1t$s1a5$1@dont-email.me>,
Ahasuerus <ahasuerus@email.com> wrote:
On 7/22/2024 4:01 PM, James Nicoll wrote:
Someone spent $19,000 dollars to stuff the Hugo Award ballot
box in a way that seems either very, very ineptly or in a
manner calculated to be spotted.
https://glasgow2024.org/hugo-awards/statement-22-july-2024/
Now, I do recall a case in the 1980s, I think, where an exuberant
fan tried to buy a story he liked a Hugo, using consecutively
numbered traveller's checks to buy memberships. So people do
fuck up comprehensively. But it could also be someone really dislikes
Finalist A and wanted to make them look bad.
Or -- conceivably -- someone who dislikes the Hugo award as an institution.
What a half-assed attack, then.
Someone spent $19,000 dollars to stuff the Hugo Award ballot https://glasgow2024.org/hugo-awards/statement-22-july-2024/
In article <v7mr1t$s1a5$1@dont-email.me>,
Ahasuerus <ahasuerus@email.com> wrote:
On 7/22/2024 4:01 PM, James Nicoll wrote:
Someone spent $19,000 dollars to stuff the Hugo Award ballot
box in a way that seems either very, very ineptly or in a
manner calculated to be spotted.
https://glasgow2024.org/hugo-awards/statement-22-july-2024/
Now, I do recall a case in the 1980s, I think, where an exuberant
fan tried to buy a story he liked a Hugo, using consecutively
numbered traveller's checks to buy memberships. So people do
fuck up comprehensively. But it could also be someone really dislikes
Finalist A and wanted to make them look bad.
Or -- conceivably -- someone who dislikes the Hugo award as an institution.
What a half-assed attack, then.
On 7/22/2024 9:19 PM, James Nicoll wrote:
In article <v7mr1t$s1a5$1@dont-email.me>,
Ahasuerus <ahasuerus@email.com> wrote:
On 7/22/2024 4:01 PM, James Nicoll wrote:What a half-assed attack, then.
Someone spent $19,000 dollars to stuff the Hugo Award ballot
box in a way that seems either very, very ineptly or in a
manner calculated to be spotted.
https://glasgow2024.org/hugo-awards/statement-22-july-2024/
Now, I do recall a case in the 1980s, I think, where an exuberant
fan tried to buy a story he liked a Hugo, using consecutively
numbered traveller's checks to buy memberships. So people do
fuck up comprehensively. But it could also be someone really dislikes
Finalist A and wanted to make them look bad.
Or -- conceivably -- someone who dislikes the Hugo award as an institution. >>
Perhaps it was more along the lines of George Bernard Shaw's dictum
about wrestling with pigs:
"You both get dirty and the pig likes it."
Or "If we throw enough mud at the wall some of it will stick".
In article <v7okdl$197vv$1@dont-email.me>,
Ahasuerus <ahasuerus@email.com> wrote:
On 7/22/2024 9:19 PM, James Nicoll wrote:Just at this second, it looks like it might be SF's version of the
In article <v7mr1t$s1a5$1@dont-email.me>,
Ahasuerus <ahasuerus@email.com> wrote:
On 7/22/2024 4:01 PM, James Nicoll wrote:
Someone spent $19,000 dollars to stuff the Hugo Award ballot
box in a way that seems either very, very ineptly or in a
manner calculated to be spotted.
https://glasgow2024.org/hugo-awards/statement-22-july-2024/
Now, I do recall a case in the 1980s, I think, where an exuberant
fan tried to buy a story he liked a Hugo, using consecutively
numbered traveller's checks to buy memberships. So people do
fuck up comprehensively. But it could also be someone really dislikes >>>>> Finalist A and wanted to make them look bad.
Or -- conceivably -- someone who dislikes the Hugo award as an institution.
What a half-assed attack, then.
Perhaps it was more along the lines of George Bernard Shaw's dictum
about wrestling with pigs:
"You both get dirty and the pig likes it."
Or "If we throw enough mud at the wall some of it will stick".
Black Sox Scandal.
James Nicoll wrote:
In article <17e4b0e7cba747c0$17833$3494482$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com>, >> Michael Benveniste <mhb@murkyether.com> wrote:
On 7/22/2024 4:01 PM, James Nicoll wrote:I own a copy of the book that got withdrawn as a result. Neither
Now, I do recall a case in the 1980s, I think, where an exuberant
fan tried to buy a story he liked a Hugo, using consecutively
numbered traveller's checks to buy memberships. So people do
fuck up comprehensively. But it could also be someone really dislikes
Finalist A and wanted to make them look bad.
https://fancyclopedia.org/1989_Hugos#Consecutively_Numbered_Money_Orders >>>
author published much after that.
Out of sheer curiosity:
Was the book good enough to be a valid nominee?
Do you regret the departure of the (I assume) co-authors from the field?
On 23/07/2024 18:19, James Nicoll wrote:
In article <v7olas$dc9$1@reader1.panix.com>,
James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
In article <v7okdl$197vv$1@dont-email.me>,Which is to say, some gambler dropped 20K trying to fix a contest on
Ahasuerus <ahasuerus@email.com> wrote:
On 7/22/2024 9:19 PM, James Nicoll wrote:Just at this second, it looks like it might be SF's version of the
In article <v7mr1t$s1a5$1@dont-email.me>,
Ahasuerus <ahasuerus@email.com> wrote:
On 7/22/2024 4:01 PM, James Nicoll wrote:
Someone spent $19,000 dollars to stuff the Hugo Award ballot
box in a way that seems either very, very ineptly or in a
manner calculated to be spotted.
https://glasgow2024.org/hugo-awards/statement-22-july-2024/
Now, I do recall a case in the 1980s, I think, where an exuberant >>>>>>> fan tried to buy a story he liked a Hugo, using consecutively
numbered traveller's checks to buy memberships. So people do
fuck up comprehensively. But it could also be someone really dislikes >>>>>>> Finalist A and wanted to make them look bad.
Or -- conceivably -- someone who dislikes the Hugo award as an >institution.
What a half-assed attack, then.
Perhaps it was more along the lines of George Bernard Shaw's dictum
about wrestling with pigs:
"You both get dirty and the pig likes it."
Or "If we throw enough mud at the wall some of it will stick".
Black Sox Scandal.
which he was voting.
And/or betting?
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