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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I do like the Dresden Files books, but do I think they are worthy of a Hugo? I don't think they are worthy of a Hugo. What's happened is that these pathetic puppies have insulted these authors they put on their lists. They are making fun of them big time.
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Actually, one of their complaints is that hugely successful authors never seem to get awards anymore, except the evil Scalzi (whose NYT Bestseller
Redshirts won the Hugo). I think Jim Butcher, Kevin Anderson, and maybe Marko Kloos (as their nod to Amazon indie authors) were on the Sad Puppy slate for that reason. Plus, the Anderson and Kloos works are both interstellar warfare space opera, which they especially like. I haven't read any of them, but I did like Charles Gannon's
Trial By Fire and nominated it (and nominated the first book in the series last year), but it wasn't on Vox Day's Rabid Puppy slate. I think it was the Vox Day fan base that drove the nominee list, every one of his choices for novella was a nominee, including three by John C. Wright published by his publishing house.