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5. Which Hugo Winners Have You Read: the poll! (I've read 33)

[personal profile] jack 2024-01-07 11:03 am (UTC)(link)
I think I got up to about 42! There was a decade or so when I followed the Hugos because I'd been to worldcon and knew a lot of friends would be reading the nominees, and usually ended up reading enough of the nominees I'd read the winners. And I've fallen out of the habit, but still often reading sufficiently notable new releases. And a lot of the winners from the 80s and 90s and early 00s were ones from famous series I devoured at some point (O S Card, Bujold, Rowling), or books that seemed like prominent classics (J Strange and Mr Norrel, Yiddish Policeman's Union, Deepness in the Sky, quite a few more), or both (Zelazny, Stephenson, Asimov...). And a few of the older novels are classics I read at some point, or not-very-niche classics I happened on.
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Re: 5. Which Hugo Winners Have You Read: the poll! (I've read 33)

[personal profile] andrewducker 2024-01-07 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I'm definitely better read with the modern ones because of encountering fandom in the early 2000s, going to the Glasgow Worldcon, etc.
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