In the past, there have been cases of ticket fraud at the Hugo Awards, but those had little impact on the results. This time is different. If "Starskin", a work that only made up the number of nominations for nominations, can win the Hugo Award over "Dune", then they will
Do you still want the Science Fiction Association’s face?
Faced with this situation, there were only three options in front of Hilde.
The first way is to respect the previously set rules and the final result, award the novel award to "Starskin" and let readers criticize it.
The second way is to directly deny the results of this vote and award the award to works that the committee deems suitable, such as "Dune". However, although this gives readers an explanation, it violates their own awards.
The rules are like a slap in the face. Furthermore, the organizations that swiped votes this time are quite powerful. If the results are really denied, those organizations will definitely fight back.
So after weighing it for a long time, Hilde decided to be an ostrich and not offend both parties, and directly stopped the service.
But he also thought about it in the future. Although the award is suspended this year, he can learn from the Nobel Prize and make up for it next year. When the annual meeting is held, the selection rules will be further refined and try to eliminate the situation of cheating. Then it will be possible
To wipe away the shame of this year, all he needs to do is to shrink his head and endure it for a year.
Boom, boom, boom.
Someone knocked on the door, and Hilde raised his eyebrows. The person he was waiting for came.
"Come in."
Vice President Larry came in.
Hilde asked impatiently, "How are things going?"
Larry held a document and smiled, "All the evidence of Link's incriminating leakage of award information in 2013 is in it."
Hilde narrowed his eyes, clapped his hands and said, "What a good news."
Link was a member of the committee. In 2013, he did inadvertently leak the news about the Hugo Awards to his friends. However, Hilde thought it was nothing at the time and the leaked information was not critical, so she helped suppress it.
But because something happened this time, Hilde remembered the incident at that time, and he wanted to use Link to leak the news about the award to attract public attention.
"Okay, then let's spread this news quietly, don't be too deliberate," Hilde said.
Larry nodded and said, "Yeah, I know."
…
Two days later, a "scandal" about the Hugo Awards spread, saying that Link, a member of the permanent committee of the World Science Fiction Association, had been expelled from the association for leaking information about the awards.
After the news spread, the World Science Fiction Association came out and apologized again, admitted the incident, and said that the reason why the Hugo Awards were suspended this year was also because of this incident, and that they would learn from this and strive to restore the Hugo Awards as soon as possible.
of issuance.
For a moment, it seemed that the truth became clear.
It turns out that the Science Fiction Association's pale lies were to cover up such a scandal.
When Zhang Zhong heard the news, he couldn't help but admire the committee chairman Hilde for being so dark-hearted that he could still get someone to support him at this time. Although Link may not be innocent, he has become the target of public criticism at this time.
, simply pushed him into the abyss.
Of course, the truth of the matter is already clear to Zhang Zhong. The main force behind this vote fraud is an organization called "White", which is composed of a group of crazy science fiction writers.
After reading the report handed over by Chen Qing, Zhang Zhong was also very surprised.
The thirteen main members of "White" actually published a total of 272 novels, long, medium and short, last year. On average, each person wrote more than 20 novels a year, which can be said to be extremely productive.
Quantitative changes can sometimes lead to qualitative changes. Half of the works participating in the first round of voting for this Hugo Award are from this organization.
If the Hugo Awards had not been suspended, at least half of the final winning works would have been theirs. The scandal of the Hugo Awards by then would probably not be comparable to this small scandal now.
The two selection methods of the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award actually have advantages and disadvantages.
The awards for the former's works are only decided by a few people, all of whom are professionals, and are easy to control, so there will be no ticket fraud. However, the problem is also easy to control. As long as these people do not position themselves correctly, they can completely control the awards, and corruption can easily occur.
Cases of bribery.
Although the latter is decided by many people, minimizing the possibility of bribery, and seems very democratic, in fact it increases the possibility of vote fraud.
In fact, Zhang Zhong doesn't care much about these awards. There were not many before, and even less now.
What he was most thinking about was how to get the next two installments of "The Three-Body Problem".
During this period, he spent 30,000 points to draw another prize, but he won Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind".
This is an excellent book that not only performed well in the market, but also won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature.
But for Zhang Zhong, this is destined to be another book that will be thrown into the library and never be taken out.
Zhang Zhong thought that his points were sufficient before, but recently he suddenly felt that his points were not enough. According to this situation, he didn't know when he would be able to draw the remaining two parts of "The Three-Body Problem".
"Metamorphosis", which I drew for "The Three-Body Problem", will also be published in the next two days along with the new collection.
Zhang Zhong thought about the name of this collection and finally chose the three words "Iris Collection".
…
Different from the sales situation of Zhang Zhong's other books, "The Collection of Irises" seemed to be ordinary on the day it was put on the shelves. Most of the people who went to the bookstore to buy this book were Zhang Zhong's die-hard fans.
After all, most people lose the desire to buy when they see the word "collection".
It has been exposed before that this "Iris Collection" contains works such as "Life is Like a Piano String" and "Soul-Breaking Gun".
Most people have seen these works online. If it is not true love, they generally will not spend money to buy them.
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Wang Meng had been feeling unwell a few days ago, but he has gotten better these days. However, he is old and time is not forgiving. This minor cold made him suddenly feel that his health was not as good as before.
Although it was summer, he always felt that his cabin was a little cold, but he couldn't run outside, otherwise he would be burned off by the scorching sun.
Wang Kewang entered the main room and saw his grandfather in a daze, so he remained silent and just stood aside and waited.
After about five or six minutes, Wang Meng's eyes focused again and he saw his grandson waiting nearby.
"Why are you here at this time?" Wang Meng pointed to the chair next to him, "Sit down."
Wang Kewang was not in a hurry to sit down, but took out a book and said, "Zhang Zhong published a collection today. I thought you might be interested, grandpa, so I bought a copy and sent it to you."
Wang Meng took the book and asked, "Are there any new works in the collection?"
"I don't know yet. I just bought it and gave it to me as a gift." Wang Kewang said.
Wang Meng nodded, opened the plastic envelope, and turned to the catalog. When he saw the first article, he raised his eyebrows and said, "There is indeed a new work. If I remember correctly, he has not published this "Metamorphosis" before."