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Old 07-08-2014, 05:36 AM   #46
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
You're right, I have. My apologies. The Hugo is the popularity contest; the Nebula is supposedly a measure of "quality" (whatever that means).
Why do you think that? They work in a similar way. If you argue that the Hugo is a popularity contest than the Nebula is also a popularity contest. They just have a different set of people voting.

A price that works differently is The Clarke Award were a jury read all the sent in books and read the books on the short list a second time before deciding in a meeting who to give the price to.
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