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This is all on the Rabid Puppies.
The Sad Puppies made sure that their list is a recommendation list, not a slate. Unlike last year, there was no behind the scenes discussion between the SP4 organizers and Vox Day, and deliberately, no category had exactly 5 recommendations. To conflate the two puppy lists will undeservedly continue the ill rancor between general worldcon membership and people who agree with the sad puppies that certain subgenres get overlooked by the Hugo awards.
Having said that, the Rabid Puppy slate was again a stinking pile of self-promotion on Vox Day's part, mixed with crappy works chosen to piss off the voters, plus a few decent works by well-respected authors in hopes that the voters will no award even the decent works. My prediction is that the voters will quickly realize which ones on Vox Day's slate could have been a nominee anyway, and vote for them anyway.
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