Brad Torgensen has published on his blog his Sad Puppies 3 list of desired nominations for the Hugo's. Personally I haven't read very many of them but will likely now do so. It will be interesting later to compare this list with the list of actual Hugo nominations. I haven't really looked into the matter closely enough to come to an informed optinion about this Sad Puppies campaign.
My own view, as I posted earlier, is that Science Fiction has never been stronger. It has been disparaged and patronised and its death predicted in some circles since I read my first sci-fi story as a young child, and no doubt well before that as well. The ease of self-publishing has in my view produced many many new wonderful books and authors across the board. Also, of course, some terrible ones, but there are ways of avoiding most of these). However, if your method of avoidance is, as some urge, to avoid self-published authors and indies altogather then you may be having a lean time.
https://bradrtorgersen.wordpress.com...15-hugo-slate/