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Originally Posted by Ginwen
The value for me of SF awards is that I tend to get locked into my particular authors or types of book, and reading the nominated books gets me to read things I might have missed otherwise. Plus the Hugos is cool because I actually get to vote for them (and this year, I'm even going to be there for them).
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That's a good way to look at, I think. It's similar to my thought process. I think too many people (readers) tend to use awards as sort sort of validation mechanism: "See! I just KNEW my favorite books were good!" And conversely; "None of the stuff I enjoyed won (or was even nominated)--I'm being oppressed."
Rather than; "Hey look ... here's a few titles/authors I was unaware of that someone somewhere thought was noteworthy. Maybe I'll check some out. Or not."