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I just wanted to add a quick note about the Sad Puppy slate last year:
- I don't know that it was particularly anti-women. I believe it was SP that got Toni Weisskopf of Baen her editorial nomination.
- Not everyone nominated had anything to do with the campaign. I understand Dan Wells caught some grief through association even though he was not personally involved in the campaign.
What was annoying about it to me was that it denied better works their time in the sun, and it was ultimately self-defeating as the mass of voters resented being told what to do. It's not that hard to get something nominated, especially in the shorter categories where there is a lot out there that few people have read and little consensus, and if people are voting on party lines rather than on actual merit, the results get very skewed. You don't need a very big special-interest group to get things onto the shortlist, but you end up with a terrible shortlist. We also had the Wheel of Time campaign last year, which didn't help matters. Luckily the novel category had a runaway winner of genuine quality.
I should say this is just my impressions as a Hugo voter, and things I've heard. I haven't especially investigated the whole thing.
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