Cue "Hotel California"

[james_davis_nicoll]

Withdrawing from the supreme honour of a Dragon Award is not permitted!

Comments

[glaurung]

My bet would be that there's a double standard at work here. Scalzi is not little people, so he must be listened to even if they don't want to. Alyson Littlewood is not as well known or as male, so they can thumb their noses at her with impunity.

Alternative theory: they were OK with scalzi jumping ship when it was just scalzi, but now they fear a mass exodus of legitimate authors, leaving them with a nomination list of truly awful crap and nothing else. So they have changed tactics.

[jamoche]

I'd have to dig through file770, but I'm pretty sure she was the first: she tried to withdraw as soon as the ballots came out, while Scalzi was ignoring it until the puppies went nuts.

[arkessian]

I was wondering about a double standard as well. Which, well... says it all. As if we didn't already know.