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I did nominate. I nominated my favourite five books from 2014, which is the idea. My choice was fairly limited by the fact that I hadn't read many more than five books from 2014 (I think I'd read seven or eight). I might as well not have bothered.
There is no inside clique. The "opposition" that the puppies pretend they have is entirely of their own imagining.
Yes, there have always been some dubious nominations. There have always been self-promoters. There have always been writers with well-mobilised fan followings. There have occasionally been campaigns like last year's Wheel of Time thing. Sometimes, they are in fact actually popular books that I simply don't like and therefore I imagine foul play. These usually come out in the wash at the voting stage, because there are "real" alternatives which actually stand up on their own quality. (Or they end up winning a pity Hugo after a couple of years, usually for the wrong book, and go away.) This time there are no legit alternatives. All five nominees in all three of the short fiction categories come from the Puppy slates. All five related works come from the puppy slates.
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