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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.
But these two works and others I have mentioned do show that great works of SF do still appear and that the genre is far from dying. But for conventional SF as headed by the Hugo and other traditional deciders of what is good, the future is not so good.
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The nominations for 2014 books are still open. So we don't know yet what books are going to be up for a chance at the Hugo awards.