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Huh. I'm not quite sure why. I don't recall signing up for such a thing, and I certainly don't have a membership.
There's one big difference between the DCA and the Hugos: the latter provides you with a copy of all of the material nominated because you have to pay for at least a sustaining membership to WorldCon. Reading through the ballot, I recognize maybe 4-5 novels, no comics except for the character titles: a lot of the stuff is flat-out foreign to me. I recognize the novels only because they were also nominated for Hugos or their by John Scalzi or Cory Doctorow. And I don't understand their process as the Doctorow book was definitely released in '17.
I don't think I'm going to bother voting. There's only three or four categories that I could vote in, in that I actually recognize titles, but I haven't read all of the submitted books and therefore I don't think I could offer a reasoned opinion. It would just be "I read this one book or I like this one author, and even though I haven't read any of the others, they're all rubbish!" Movies are about the only category that I could vote and would feel that I could argue my vote in.
There's one big difference between the DCA and the Hugos: the latter provides you with a copy of all of the material nominated because you have to pay for at least a sustaining membership to WorldCon. Reading through the ballot, I recognize maybe 4-5 novels, no comics except for the character titles: a lot of the stuff is flat-out foreign to me. I recognize the novels only because they were also nominated for Hugos or their by John Scalzi or Cory Doctorow. And I don't understand their process as the Doctorow book was definitely released in '17.
I don't think I'm going to bother voting. There's only three or four categories that I could vote in, in that I actually recognize titles, but I haven't read all of the submitted books and therefore I don't think I could offer a reasoned opinion. It would just be "I read this one book or I like this one author, and even though I haven't read any of the others, they're all rubbish!" Movies are about the only category that I could vote and would feel that I could argue my vote in.
