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Originally Posted by DNSB
As far as I am concerned, the Hugos are a popularity contest and have never had any pretensions of being anything else. You want literary pretensions, hit the Nebula awards.
As for Baen readers not going to conventions? I've met quite a few other Baen fans at various cons. In many ways, a rather jaded and cynical group that I've had several enjoyable drinks and conversations with.
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A Baen book was nominated for the Nebula 2019 award for best novel. Plus, there is more publisher diversity then the Hugos
https://nebulas.sfwa.org/award-year/2019
Best Novel
Marque of Caine by Charles E. Gannon, published by Baen
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow, published by Redhook
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine, published by Tor
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, published by Del Rey
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, published by Tor.com
* Winner: A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker, published by Berkley
Best Novella
“Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom” by Ted Chiang, published by Knopf
“The Haunting of Tram Car 015” by P. Djèlí Clark, published by Tor.com
* Winner: “This Is How You Lose the Time War” by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, published by Gallery and Saga Press
“Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water” by Vylar Kaftan, published by Tor.com
“The Deep” by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes, published by Gallery and Saga Press
“Catfish Lullaby” by A C Wise, published by Broken Eye Books