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Originally Posted by ATDrake
* Including more than half of the 2011 Best Novel nominees, because much as I like and collect both Bujold and Willis' writing in multiple languages and enjoyed their series continuations, those were in no way among the better of their works and Blackout/All Clear especially was an overlong meandering mess (which I happened to otherwise like and was happy to read and find out what happened next to the characters, incidentally) and Hugos shouldn't be for "eh well, if there's nothing else better available, then this is probably good enough" IMHO, so I voted for Jemisin's novel for first place that year since I felt that one was unusually imaginative and interesting and truly excellent from an author I'd never read before.
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I really like most of Bujold's books but the one 2011 was very weak. And Blackout/All Clear was a mess and I got very annoyed that it was so long when only parts of it was good. And I did not like Jemisin's novel either. The Dervish House was the only one I really thought was very good and I voted for that one as winner.