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Originally Posted by pwalker8
It's worthwhile to go read Correia's website and read his side of things. Of course the Hugo nomination and voting is biased. That was true back in the early 80's and that is true now. There is a reason that Stross and Scalzi get nominated on a regular basis. Not only are they pretty good authors, they also write the right sort of books. While Correia is popular and a very good author, he doesn't write the right sort of books.
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I don't think Urban Fantasy is ever going to do quite as well as straight SF. Although the Hugo is open to fantasy, it still feels like an SF award, to me, and I think a fantasy will have to work harder to win it.
Unless you mean that doubletalk nonsense about snobbery and popular fiction and the conservative viewpoint.
I'm perfectly happy to say that I oppose any and all campaigning and manipulation of the nominations, no matter whose "team" (ugh) is doing it.
I'm not especially a fan of Scalzi's fiction, I have to say, and I don't really see how his kind of books differ very much from the Baen-style fare that the puppy squad want to push. Old Man's War was clearly and acknowledgedly a response to Starship Trooper, after all, and Redshirts was a bestseller.