John C. Wright did not win a Hugo Award this year. He lost to “No Award.”

Wright was up for five Hugos in three categories. The Hugo is one of the major awards given to science fiction literature, and Wright is the author of several well-reviewed science fiction novels, novellas, and short stories. Many of Wright’s works are published by Tor, the leading science fiction and fantasy publisher in America.

I consider Wright’s Golden Age trilogy some of the finest science fiction writing of the last half-century, up there with Robert Heinlein and Philip K. Dick.

John C. Wright lost to “No Award” because of political correctness. In a story that was widely, and often inaccurately, reported, Wright was part of a group of sci-fi writers calling themselves the “Sad Puppies.” The Puppies, a diverse group that includes writers of different genders and races, argue that a focus on trendy liberal themes — political correctness, homosexuality, race, etc. — is overtaking the craft of storytelling in science fiction. They feel that sci-fi and fantasy — so-called “speculative fiction” — is increasingly reading like The Nation magazine or Rachel Maddow’s blog.

Read the article “Political Correctness Puts Science Fiction on Trial” on acculturated.com.