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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib
I agree with the entirety of your first and second paragraph.  |
But not the third?
Why prolong the soap opera?
We have a system designed to cope with a volume of maybe a hundred new books a year faced with more new books than voters and where over half the titles get no consideration from the voters simply because they don't come from a "name" house.
And then there is the diversification of the genre, which ranges from the classics like space opera to alternate history and superhero adventures, epic fantasies to urban fables.
The whole idea of a "best" novel has outlived its usefulness.
Put the Hugos out of our misery.