Originally Posted by Rizla
Sure, I acknowledge that it's voter-based. But at no point did I suggest there was some kind of conspiracy. You put those words into my mouth. Please stop. What I have said is that the Hugo's lack of recognition of the greatest works of SF (in my opinion) in the last decade makes it irrelevant as a commentator on what I like in SF.
Perhaps the people that vote for the Hugo are an increasingly marginal group (i.e. nerds) who have little connection to what I enjoy. I suspect this is the SF that is dying, and not the true and energetic SF (& F) that has been emerging over the last ten years or so, and that the Hugo had failed to recognize.
I think if you want to defend the Hugo, you have to accept its faults, and progress from there. Otherwise it cannot repair its obvious mistakes.
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