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Well -- I apparently have a complicated thinking process about the Hugos. Somewhere during my childhood I got this idea that the Hugo winner ought to be the one of the nominees that most gives me something intellectually to chew on, that makes me think about things a little differently than I did before. And on that measure 3BP wins of the three; TGE didn't particularly change the way I thought about anything at all (mostly in the sense of skygiants' review). And yet TGE was well enough written and likeable that I would have, in the absence of 3BP, voted it over No Award. (Applying this to the last couple of years, had I been a Hugo voter then, I would definitely have voted Ancillary Justice over No Award, and would almost definitely have voted Redshirts under no Award -- I also find Scalzi's writing rather more pedestrian than Addison/Monette's.)

Thank you! Season 5 is... way more understandable as an AU fanfic...