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Works by Neil Gaiman and R.F. Kuang were deemed “ineligible” by the Hugo Awards Selection Committee. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Andrew Toth/WireImage, Craig Brown/Alamy The Hugo Awards are facing a controversy of intergalactic proportions. According to emails leaked on February 14, the volunteer body that administered the 2023 Hugo Awards appeared to have directly engaged in self-censoring the nominees over political concerns about the host country, China. The emails allege members of the Hugo administration team succeeded in keeping certain books off-ballot because they wanted to operate under Chinese laws related to content and censorship, Hugo-nominated sci-fi author Jason Sanford and...
