Grandpa's great writer

Chapter 500 Helpless Hilde
News spread quickly that the Hugo Awards would be discontinued this year.

Because of Zhang Zhong's relationship, this year's Huaxia readers paid more attention to the Hugo Awards than in previous years, so after the news spread, there was an immediate uproar.

It has been nearly 50 years since the Hugo Awards were established in the 70s. In the past so many years, the Hugo Awards have never stopped, rain or shine.

So this time the Hugo Awards are suspended, which makes people have to wonder.

Many people also linked this matter with the Nobel Prize in the previous year.

The year before last, the Nobel Prize was also suspended for a year. Over the past 100 years, the Nobel Prize has been suspended seven times. Except for 1935, when the academicians did not agree, the other times were due to war.

But the time the year before last was because of a scandal.

Arnault, the husband of the academician of the Swedish Academy of Letters, Arnault, who is also a Swedish cultural celebrity, was entangled in a lawsuit because of sexual assault the year before last, and by the way, the scandal of the Nobel Prize in Literature leaked.

For this reason, many academicians of the Faculty of Arts resigned at that time.

The Nobel Prize was suspended because of the scandal, so what about the Hugo Award this time?Is it exactly the same as the last Nobel Prize?
The official reason given by the World Science Fiction Association is that there are not enough members for the annual meeting, and the meeting did not reach a consensus, which led to the loss of the final award.

Such a statement is not convincing to everyone. After all, anyone who knows a little about the Hugo Awards knows what the annual meeting is for.

The main task of the annual conference affairs meeting is to decide the selection items and selection methods, and to notify members of nominations.

Needless to say the former, since the 60s, the regulations of the Hugo Awards have not changed much, and the projects and selection methods are similar every year.As for the matter of member nominations, how can there be any controversy about this matter, it can't be that the five nominated works can't be produced.

The most important thing is that if things are really as the World Science Fiction Association said, then the news of the suspension should have been announced in April and May, and it will not be delayed until now.

According to the progress of previous years, this time happens to be the end of voting.

Announcing the suspension of awards at this time has to make people fantasize.

[I think it is aimed at Zhang Zhong, I suspect that the votes have all come out. 】

[Upstairs said that the vote came out, and the award-winning work was Zhang Zhong's, but the World Science Fiction Association is unwilling to award him the award? 】

[There is such a possibility. 】

[This possibility is unlikely. After all, if this is the case, there must be many people who know the inside story. If it comes out, do you want to hold the Hugo Awards in the future? 】

[I can't get the award this year, I can only wait for next year. 】

[That's right, with the current situation, won't the Hugo Award next year only be awarded to Zhang Zhong? 】

[I will stop sending it to you next year. 】

[Then the Hugo Award is invincible. Could it be that if Zhang Zhong is out of breath, the Hugo Award will not be awarded for a day? 】

[The truth of the matter is not known yet, so everyone should stop guessing. 】

[I still want to watch "Dune" win double prizes. 】

[Suddenly my favor for the Nebula Award doubled. 】

[Yeah, the Hugo Award is not a trick, maybe this will be a turning point. In the future, the Nebula Award will come from behind and the Hugo Award will continue. 】

……

Of course, because of the way the Hugo Awards are selected, many people know a little bit about it.

The second stage of the Hugo Awards is voting. Anyone who is a member of the World Science Fiction Association is eligible to vote, and many of Zhang Zhong's fans have the right to vote.

After the suspension of the Hugo Awards came out, a reader named Stuart in the United States wrote an article about it.

"I don't know why the World Science Fiction Association would tell such a lie that can be easily exposed. In fact, I have already participated in the voting for the Hugo Award. Among the novels, pz's "Dune" entered the nomination, and together with other works, it was nominated for at least Three rounds of voting. I hope the association can give us an explanation. If "Dune" wins, please give this year's award to pz. If "Dune" doesn't win, please announce the results of the vote. We All members of the General Assembly have the right to know the truth of the matter."

After this article came out, more and more members of the World Science Fiction Association stood up and said that they also participated in the voting, and they also voted for "Dune".

The number of people who vote for the Hugo Awards every year is not many, only a few thousand, so it suddenly broke out on the Internet that so many people voted for "Dune", and people have to think that "Dune" actually won the award in the end.

……

"Boss, the official number of votes for the Hugo Awards has not been announced, so I have no way of knowing, but the number of members has indeed suddenly increased by more than 4000, which is a very scary number." Chen Qing roughly reported the news he had investigated. for a moment.

Zhang Zhong is not surprised at all. It seems that this year's Hugo Awards have "again" ticket fraud.

"Well, don't pay attention any more, just let the people in the company stare at it. It's just an award, and it's not worth our effort." Zhang Zhong said.

"Okay, I see, I will keep people paying attention."

In the next few days, things continued to ferment.

The Nebula Award also jumped out in a timely manner. The official letter issued a letter expressing congratulations to Zhang Zhong for winning two awards and breaking multiple records.

Anyone with a discerning eye can tell at a glance that the Nebula Awards are playing tricks, and they must come out at this time to mock the Hugo Awards.

……

In the committee office of the World Science Fiction Association, Hilde looked out the window and sighed. It was raining continuously outside today, which was similar to his mood.

This time the Hugo Awards were suspended, and he was also very helpless. The Hugo Awards had not been suspended for so many years, but they were suspended in his hands. One can imagine his mood.

But at the same time he was helpless, he also felt a little fortunate.

Since the middle of last year, the membership of the association has suddenly increased. Hilde was quite happy at first, because the vice president Larry told him that the increase in membership was probably due to Zhang Zhong attracting many readers from Huaxia.

But then he read the data report, and although there were many more Huaxia members than in previous years, this group of people only accounted for a small part of the new members, and most of them were local members.

Such abnormal data made Hilde vigilant.

So he kept a hand and didn't announce it immediately after the nomination list came out.

And when he saw the votes from the first round of nominations, he knew that things were not easy.

However, he didn't stop the voting in time at that time, because "Dune" still had an advantage in the first two rounds. If the momentum at that time was followed, the final result was that "Dune" won. Although there were problems in the process, the result can definitely be explained to others.

It's just that "Dune" began to lose in the third round.

(End of this chapter)