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You’d think the biggest headlines surrounding an annual celebration of sci-fi and fantasy writing would be applauding the winners—but that’s not always the case with the Hugos.

Excluding ‘undesirable’ work is not only embarrassing for all involved parties, but renders the entire process and organization illegitimate.”

“The 2023 Hugo Awards were censored because certain authors and works were deemed to have too many political liabilities, at least from the viewpoint of the Chinese government.

However, what also disturbs me is that the administrators of the Hugo Awards from the United States and Canada, countries that supposedly support and value free speech, appear to have been active participants in this censorship.”

In a statement released today, Esther MacCallum-Stewart, the chair of Glasgow 2024 - A Worldcon for Our Futures, which will present the next iteration of the Hugos, offered an apology for “for the damage caused to nominees, finalists, the community, and the Hugo, Lodestar, and Astounding Awards” and outlined “steps to ensure transparency and to attempt to redress the grievous loss of trust in the administration of the Awards.”

These include full disclosure of “the reasons for any disqualifications of potential finalists, and any withdrawals of potential finalists from the ballot” when the final ballot is shared in the coming months; the publication of “full voting results, nominating statistics, and voting statistics” after the ceremony in August; and that “the Hugo administration subcommittee will also publish a log explaining the decisions that they have made in interpreting the [World Science Fiction Society] Constitution immediately after the Awards ceremony.”

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