Thread: Is SF dying?
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Old 02-13-2015, 02:05 PM   #300
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
The Hugo Awards are a popularity contest among 3600 voters.

http://www.thehugoawards.org/2014/08...award-winners/

I'm pretty sure SF fandom, to say nothing of SF *readership*, is a wee bit bigger than convention goers.
Nowadays a lot of people vote without going to the con. An effect of the Hugo voter package.

And I think people voting is representative for the group of sf readers that read a lot of books.
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