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Originally Posted by wayspooled
You know, Little Brother was the only one of those that even came close to being what I'd consider a Hugo award nominee based on the kind of challenging, exploring and fairly unique stuff that used to get nominated. What in the world happened?
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After now having read all the novels I placed
Anathem first just because I thought it was the only novel that was really science fiction and the only novel that was challenging and tried to do something different.
Adam Roberts kind of agree that the the quality of the nominated works was low:
http://punkadiddle.blogspot.com/2009/07/hugos-2009.html