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Originally Posted by Rizla
And what about The Martian and Ready Player One, both great books. Have they been recognized by the Hugo? If not, bin the Hugo as irrelevant.
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The popular version of The Martian ought to be eligible this year, and I believe will pick up a lot of nominations. I'm not sure it actually is eligible, though, because of the original self-published edition. I think some sort of rule change might be required to catch these kinds of situations (assuming this is correct and it isn't eligible).
The Hugo is for new(ish) books, and will always miss books that take time to become popular.
I don't personally feel that Ready Player One was good enough. Again it's one of these books, like Hunger Games, that are pretty gripping and fun to read but aren't really doing anything special. That's my feeling. I love to read these kinds of books, but it's rather like eating fast food instead of a quality meal.