Yeah I've never even heard of this author before, but this response is so nicely written and well considered that I'll be checking out their books now!

Wow, that was a classy response to an awkward situation.

I feel like all of last year's fake finalists should be given a Hugo* award, which is like a Hugo award in that people did vote for them at the finals, but with the big obvious askerisk.

Plus that would make it easy for authors to fix their new book covers, just overprint a large asterisk and it's all good!

> I’m embarrassed to have been used in this way — as a nice “no issues” name on a list, in order to further what appears to have been a xenophobic quest to keep the awards firmly American

I disagree