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I'd call the puppy thing a great success, not because of the slate, not because of trying to include more mainstream (or whatever term you want to apply) books, but for the simple yardstick that more people voted this year than ever before, it's meant to be a popular award and was in danger of becoming very self-referential and irrelevant to the sci-fi reading public. Now most people know that they can vote if they want, the more people voting the less chance it can get derailed by any small interest group (sad, mad rabid, sjw or whatever), hell if the romance crowd took an interest there is nothing stopping historical-chick-lit completely sweeping the board with the amount of people voting now.
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