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<blockquote data-quote="nyvinter" data-source="post: 9606344" data-attributes="member: 6800976">Going in and looking at fantasy display shelves has always been &quot;hot sellers right now!&quot; unless the store has employees following the genre or it being a specialist shop. I'd say the difference there is that previously you were probably just more in tune with what was selling. There's no shame or value judgement in this, there's still great books. One just have to look for them.As for the &quot;splintering&quot; was that more women regularly was nominated and won, and that <a href="https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2014-hugo-awards/" target="_blank">one of them had the audacity to win over Carreia</a> in the year he had decided he wanted to win an award for his monster hunter books with long weird 2nd amendment rants in them. He's a bestseller in his niche but it sure doesn't have crossover appeal. (Many of his fellow puppies has since gotten dropped by Baen for terrible sales.)But women and people of colour getting attention for awards and winning was the big shift around 2014. Because contentwise, I don't see big shifts there from today and going back to the 2000s except perhaps for fantasy yielding a bit for science fiction again.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="nyvinter, post: 9606344, member: 6800976"] Going in and looking at fantasy display shelves has always been "hot sellers right now!" unless the store has employees following the genre or it being a specialist shop. I'd say the difference there is that previously you were probably just more in tune with what was selling. There's no shame or value judgement in this, there's still great books. One just have to look for them. As for the "splintering" was that more women regularly was nominated and won, and that [URL='https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2014-hugo-awards/']one of them had the audacity to win over Carreia[/URL] in the year he had decided he wanted to win an award for his monster hunter books with long weird 2nd amendment rants in them. He's a bestseller in his niche but it sure doesn't have crossover appeal. (Many of his fellow puppies has since gotten dropped by Baen for terrible sales.) But women and people of colour getting attention for awards and winning was the big shift around 2014. Because contentwise, I don't see big shifts there from today and going back to the 2000s except perhaps for fantasy yielding a bit for science fiction again. [/QUOTE]

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