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I am always happy for more people to get involved.
I am not interested in ganging up and making a slate.
Right now, I'm fairly happy to step away from the Hugo and let it fail.
In the last few years I completed a project to read all of the Best Novel winners, and I did feel that the award is a good barometer of the field. It's less likely to go out on a limb than some of the juried awards, and more likely to reward crowd-pleasers, and that seemed like a good thing, to me. It remains the only award I have read every winner of. I'm a little sad to see it vandalised - it's a shame to throw away that history - but maybe it has had its day. I certainly don't feel I need it to find out what's hot, any more, now I have podcasts, and forums, and twitter, and blogs.
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