Reposted from   Rooth 's FA account: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6653782

It's a long article, but if you have any interest at all in SciFi novels and author recognition, you really should read it:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/12/right-wing-trolls-hijack-scifi-oscars.html?source=TDB&via=FB_Page

It seems the voting box is effectively being 'stuffed' by a single group of devout followers of John C Wright and Theodore Beale. If even half of what this article says is true, these guys are the most homophobic, islamaphobic, and no-doubt furry-phobic authors I've ever heard of. And it seems they've swept the nominations this year thanks to their White Knights.

I need to read a few more articles on this fiasco before I seriously buy into the whole story, but on the face of it, it's a pathetic example of democracy in action, and an insult to previous winners, one of whom I sorta know and who will likely have a very interesting and amusing journal about it in a week or two: http://ursulavernon.com/ .