Science Fiction

The very easy to link summary included at the very top of the article, before the quote OP gave.

1. 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.

2. 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.

Children of time is a great series, and this would have been a well deserved win, but the man shows great integrity by withdrawing himself/decking the award given what seems to have happened in the contest.

Given how many people I've forced at nag-point to read Children of Time over the years, this is quite a relief. Good guy Tchaikovsky!

I got into Tchaikovsky after reading thought Dennis E. Taylor's Bobiverse series and while I liked those books, they were always very lacking in creative alien designs. The Pav, Deltans and Quinlans are all pretty much just different flavors of human-like.

Children of Time on the other hand had some truly alien aliens, even though they technically aren't even aliens. The way the spiders society and industry functions is so different from humans and more interesting for it.

I know the second book of the CoT series isn't as highly regarded but I love the antagonist and how it works. Fair to say that I have lost all interests of "going on an adventure"

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.

He's a class act.

Ccp censorship in Europe. Shameful.

Good the authors have morals at least.

In the spirit of this post, I would also like to hand back my prestigious award as Time's 2006 Person of the Year. You should, too!