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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aitch Eye" data-source="post: 2475289" data-attributes="member: 385">Some people have assumed that the best novel list was the result of British voters giving a homefield advantage, however as Cheryl Morgan (last years winner for Best Fanzine) <a href="http://www.emcit.com/emcit119.shtml#Hugos" target="_blank">pointed out </a> at Emerald City:"At the time this year’s Hugo nominations closed Interaction had around 500 British members. In contrast, every member of Noreascon 4 [in Boston -- Massachusetts, not Lincolnshire] was eligible to nominate. All 5500+ of them. Of those, only a hundred or so are likely to have been British, and that group will have had a very strong overlap with the membership of Interaction. There could have been as many as 10 times as many American fans eligible to nominate for Interaction’s Hugos as Brits. So if the Best Novel short-list this year is all-British then American fans have only themselves to blame."She goes on to point out that most of the short fiction was still American, and that while River of Gods and The Algebraist had only been released in the UK, Iron Sunrise had only been released in the U.S. -- Stross is basically writing for the American market, I believe all the British releases of his novels have been reprints of books that were originally contracted for by U.S. publishers. The others had simultaneous releases, and very few fantasy books have been as heavily promoted as Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. Stross points out that a big factor was that a lot of major authors were between releases. On a vaguely related note, back in March the reviews editor for Locus <a href="http://notesfromcoodestreet.blogspot.com/2005/03/hugo-ago-go.html" target="_blank">predicted</a> the 2006 best novel nominees:The Hallowed Hunt, Lois McMaster BujoldAnansi Boys, Neil GaimanOlympos, Dan SimmonsAccelerando, Charles StrossSpin, Robert Charles Wilson If you go back over the last few years of nominations, you'll see how he came up with this, though most of those hadn't come out at the time (if any).</blockquote>

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