![]() ![]() I will never attend another World Fantasy Convention as long as I live. I will not accept the award if it is bestowed upon me. Please make sure that I am not nominated for any future World Fantasy Award. You don’t have Joshi to kick around any more, because, gentlemen, this is his last WFC. It follows a year-long campaign led by the author Daniel José Older, who launched a petition calling for the awards to end their trophy’s association with “avowed racist” Lovecraft. HP Lovecraft’s biographer ST Joshi has returned his two World Fantasy awards following the organisers’ decision to stop using a bust of the author for the annual trophy – a move the Lovecraft expert called “a craven yielding to the worst sort of political correctness”. Joshi has lost his cool air over the World Fantasy Convention’s decision to remodel their awards: Lovecraft biographer and anthologist S.T. ![]()
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