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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I think that you are avoiding the basic issue, that is to say that the Hugos is dominated by a clique of writers and voters with tastes that don't necessarily match the SF&F community.
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And they don't NOT necessarily match the SF&F community, either. The problem is that you (and others) are avoiding the basic issue that there IS no such thing as a prevailing SF&F community taste to match any more. As already noted, SF&F is too large and too diverse for there to be one general "taste" among fans.
A more accurate statement would be that the Hugos are dominated by writers and voters with tastes that don't match ALL SF&F fans. Which makes perfect sense, since the days of a tiny SF&F fan community who all value the same things have been gone for a long, long time. In those days, the tiny clique in charge of the Hugos was preventing anything that didn't meet their exacting standards (including works favored by the new clique) from making the cut. Then they got replaced by the future. And so it goes.