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Originally Posted by Rizla
But if the Hugo doesn't reflect the majority of SF readers, then who does it represent? And what does it represent? Not the majority of SF readers, I would argue.
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
It seems to represent the mystical *real* SF readers, which apparently discriminates against all those peope I know, where the one (three) book they have ever read is The Hunger Games. I am not sure I blame them either...
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The Hugo represents the opinions of the people who were interested enough to (a) pay the Worldcon membership fee and then (b) nominate and/or vote. Where's the mystery?
The Hugo and Nebula, as far back as I can recall, have a sort of yin and yang relationship. Fans decide the Hugo, pros decide the Nebula. In both cases, there's a fee attached (Worldcon, SFWA), but only the Nebula has the additional condition that it only accepts professional members. Thus, there is inherently a higher element of popularity to the Hugo, simply because it is open to a wider voter pool.