There was a movement a couple of years ago by conservative and or white male SciFi authors who were fed up with being put into a ghetto in the SciFi community and they decided to use the rules to get more conservative works onto the nomination ballot. The group behind this called themselves the Sad Puppies. They managed to get their nominees in pretty much all the available slots in several categories, ostensibly guaranteeing that a conservative themed work would win. The hugo people responded by refusing to give awards in those categories, proving the point that the hugos are biased against conservatives. This went on for a couple of years, always the same result. It appears based on the slate that the sad puppies might have given up this year as it looks like a lot of global warming progressive stuff written by non-white gays and women, at a glance. Same as it ever was.
http://www.npr.org/2015/08/26/434644645/how-the-sad-puppies-won-by-losing
I noticed a couple of puppy-related nominees this year: John C. Wright received a nomination for Best Short Story, and Vox Day was nominated for Best Editor (Long Form). Will be interesting to see the list of winners in August.
As long as the publishing houses are in major East Coast cities then we will see the SJW brand of SF. It is just too big of an echo chamber for them to ignore.
I may ask my kids to stop renewing my subscription to Analog for my birthday. Or not. At least now I have a voice, no matter how small, by being a paying customer. Analog - do the kids behind the magazine even understand the irony of the Title?
Very glad that we have used bookstores to browse for reading material.