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Originally Posted by fjtorres
As usual, I don't particularly care who wins awards. But the nomination list looks pretty solid and legit to me. Weber, Freer, Correia, Novik, Butcher, Sir Terry Pratchet (spoiler: he won his category), plus HBO, BETHESDA SOFTWORKS... a couple Indies, and even an Amazon Publishing title. Sounds pretty inclusive to
me.
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I think it depends what you mean by "legit". To me, it seems like this list is obviously designed to give awards to authors that are liked by the various puppies (do they really need all those separate categories to tag on "military"?), and it doesn't look to me like they are weighing literary merit very heavily. On the other hand, most of the nominations are works that have a good reputation among wider fandom so they are probably "legit" in the sense of representing a more populist take on what is award-worthy.
I'm happy they've done this though, and I think it's what they should have considered all along instead of trying to game and then destroy the Hugos.