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Originally Posted by DrNefario
The Hunger Games would have been eligible in 2009 when there were two YA books on the ballot and one of them won (The Graveyard Book won, Little Brother was on the shortlist.) I feel that the Hugo is the one award where a gripping story of mixed literary merit could do well, since it is a popular vote. I don't know if the award was too soon for the book to have made an impact or if people just didn't really rate it. It doesn't look an especially strong shortlist that year, to my biases, but I did like the winner.
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And both The Graveyard Book and Little Brothers are better sf/fantasy books than The Hunger Game.
I thought The Hunger Game was OK but it was not good SF because the world was not believable at all. The world was just postulated and it did not feel reasonable that this was a world that could appear from our current situation. And people voting for Hugo actually care about these kind of things.