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Originally Posted by Nancy Fulda
The word I've heard from participants in previous years is that the deck is heavily stacked against science fiction and fantasy submissions because the final jury has a very definite literary bent.
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This is my experience as well, as a judge the past two years, and it's a little frustrating. I read so many VERY VERY VERY good sci-fi/fantasy excerpts that I wanted to see published so that I could finish, and to have the winners keep going to "Bob/Amy learns a lesson about cancer/dementia/racism" was very frustrating.
Not that the winners aren't good! Just that... I'd like to see more winners, one for each genre category.