Terms of Surrender

It has been one week since the Sad Puppies won their overwhelming victory in the Hugo Awards Nomination Battle. With the reactionary forces of the Traditional Hugo Voting Bloc and the Nielsen Hayden coterie on the retreat in all spheres of combat, the Central Committee for the Sad Puppies Vanguard Party has met and considered terms of surrender for all enemies of Fandom.

These are our terms:

1. Immediate termination of Tor Books as a science fiction publisher, with the rights to their catalogue to be turned over to Castalia House, which will vet all titles for ideological soundness. Those deemed fit and proper works of SF will be republished; those which do not meet our standards will be edited to bring them into compliance, or, if they are judged too heterodox, they will be removed from publication and their authors added to the Index of Suspect Persons. The Nielsen Hayden's must agree to resign from the genre altogether, though we are magnanimous enough to allow them to continue in the publishing industry in a genre more suited for their mistaken beliefs about quality literature, perhaps in ChickLit or mysteries.
2. The withdrawal of all YA publishers from the field. For too long we have stood by as Young Adult authors have acted as a fifth column within the genre, subverting the youth and poisoning them to the glories of traditional science fiction. Henceforth YA lit shall once again be known as "Juveniles," and only those works embodying the highest principles of Robert A. Heinlein shall be permitted. Girls who read Twilight and books like it shall be expelled from the genre. We will recognize The Hunger Games as a proper SF novel, but the sequels are right out.
3. Ann Leckie, G. Willow Wilson, Kameron Hurley, John Scalzi, Charles Stross, and Charlie-Jane Anders must sign letters repudiating their previous Hugo winning works and acknowledging their ideological unsoundness.
4. WorldCon must permit the Central Committee of the Sad Puppies Vanguard Party to revise the list of previous Hugo winners, removing all works deemed ideologically suspect.
5. WorldCon must ban all discussion of Chinese cartoons and cosplay involving said cartoons. Attendees must be required to sign affidavits affirming that they are not subscribers to Crunchyroll, Funimation or any other website which streams Chinese cartoons.
6. There is no number six.
7. All female attendees at WorldCon must wear original series Star Trek uniforms.
8. The Hugo Awards must be renamed the Heinies in honor of SF master Robert A. Heinlein.

Failure to conform to these demands will be met by further action by the Sad Puppies Vanguard Party, to include but not be limited to the overthrow of the WorldCon apparat, an uprising by our supporters within the SFWA, and a large scale boycott of Tor Books.

You have been warned. You have six days to conform to our demands.

THIS STATEMENT HAS BEEN APPROVED FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BY THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SAD PUPPIES VANGUARD PARTY