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		gkanai on Feb 18, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Science fiction authors were excluded from awards ... They should never have agreed to holding the Hugos in China.

TheCoelacanth on Feb 18, 2024 [–]

There is no "they" who agreed to it. The location is decided by a vote at the convention two years earlier. Anyone attending can vote. It turns out that there are a lot of Chinese SF fans who decided to vote in 2021.

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