The Hugo Award nominees are all pretty good. Winning isn't any more significant than getting shortlisted. For a short while I thought it was dropping in quality but a discussion here led to my changing my mind: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48929545

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thataccount 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The article you list which is referred to reads to me like the books she is judging are not standing out on their own enough to instill in the reader a sense of their "greatness" as a work. Old school book awards were obvious then, and are obvious now. You know when you put one of those puppies down that you've done something that has re-arranged how you process life.

I'm not clear what in the convo changed your mind?

	▲	arjie an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I'm sorry if I wasn't clear. I did not mean the article. I meant the Hacker News discussion. The link is to my comment claiming that the Hugos today are garbage but I can see how it would appear that I intended the primary story.

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dominotw 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

ever since i was a teenager i always read all the booker prize nominees and nothing else. But they've seemed to have jumped onto social justice bandwagon and are nominating books with an agenda. i have no problem with social justice and belive in mission 100 percent but for some reason my heart doesnt agree with books slected for an agenda.

	▲	teh_klev an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I gave up on the Booker Prize years ago. It's mostly hand wringing, dreary, navel gazing tedium, which is a shame.