The 2018 Nebula Award finalists, announced last week, have sparked controversy in the science fiction and fantasy community, drawing accusations that a self-publishing group called 20Booksto50K stacked this year’s list with a slate of self-published authors they selected. The Nebulas are voted on by SFWA members, and according to a post by author Cora Buhlert, five of six of this year’s finalists are “military leaning space opera or outright military SF,” an unusually disproportionate number for the sub-genre, and all six are members of 20Booksto50K. Buhlert writes that 20Booksto50K “started out as a Facebook group for business minded indie writers […]
