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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
A bigger question is whether readers buy books on the basis of a Clarke Award. The Hugo does increase sales somewhat. I have no real data on the others.
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Dennis
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I really do not know but I think it increase sales inside sf fandom at least. At Eastercons you notice that a lot of people have read the Clarke short list and the BSFA-award short list.
And one goal of the Clarke-award is to promote science fiction books to the general book buying public.
In any case. I definitely recommend people to try all the book on the Clarke-award short list also. I usually read the Clarke-award short list and the Hugo-award nominations (since I vote).