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Originally Posted by DrNefario
I think the real problem with nominations is that few people read very many brand new books, so the pool is always going to be small enough to distort. I had never nominated until this year - it used to be that the award shortlists were my guide to what new stuff was interesting. I tend to read maybe two or three books in the year of their publication, and they will usually be books by my existing favourite authors. I don't think I've read any 2014 books yet, although I do have one lined up next. I don't know what the solution to that is.
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I have the same problem. I use the award nominations to see what to read. For this year I only nominated Ancillary Justice since I really loved that book.
And I really do not read shorter works other than the Hugo nominates stories. And this year I think they were very weak. The only one I really thought was science fiction and very good was the Ted Chiang story "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling". "Wakulla Springs" was well written and a good story but I do not see why it was science fiction or fantasy. Maybe it can be read as American magic realism but even that is doubtful since nothing strange necessarily did happen.