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No matter WHAT award is up, it's typically all about politics. What these discussions did tell me though was how the Hugos were nominated and voted on. Just a popularity contest. Most of those voting likely never read most of what was nominated, so it's just garbage in, garbage out. That's not all bad - a lot of good books lose out in 'literary' awards because they don't meet some literary snob's idea of a book should be. Just take the awards with a grain of salt. Most nominated books, short stories and novellas don't suck - they may not be to your taste, but they are at least a reasonably good read.
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