Harlock Sholmes

Thing about SFF is. People will act like it's an uniquely current problem that fandom at large is assigning awards to mediocre work, but that's kind of how it's always been. Like the first Hugo Award winner for best novel is The Demolished Man, which still whips, but the second is They'd Rather Be Right, a book most people don't even remember anymore, which won because it was playing to John W. Campbell's pet obsessions about psi powers and contrarian rationalism. Mediocre forgettable work has always won awards, fandom/publishing has always been full of cliques and there's always been resistance to approaches to writing SFF that don't fit people's predetermined boxes for what SFF is supposed to be. All these problems will endure as long as we're stuck in the capitalist mode of art production.