It’s laughable how tiny the Hugo’s are. One thing to keep in mind that the Hugos were only chosen by 5,950 people who are supposed to represent all of fandom. Last year it was only 1,923 people voting. Bottom line the Hugo’s are tiny to the point of ridiculousness. Most folks now invariably first think of ‘movies/TV’ when they think of sci-fi instead of ‘books.’ It’s been that way probably since Star Wars. The Hugos have media awards, but supposedly Hollywood doesn’t even send representatives or hype them at all.
Also, anyone who isn’t a stiff knows that folks like John C Wright are great writers even though he doesn’t write about black lesbians being persecuted by colonial white dudes all the time.
Freegards
Whoa - that is minuscule.
If it is a ‘Hugo Award Winner’ I automatically pass it by. Now, I buy self-published works from Amazon Kindle because I know they bypassed the PC Editors (with the exception of Baen).