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I personally find the science and academic prizes a lot more interesting. Whenever a book author receives a high profile award I perceive it as less of a human advancement and more of a marketing campaign.
I think the Hugos have done a generally very good job. Like, yeah some don't hold up, and there have been decisions I disagree with, but at the very worst the awards represent a popular attitude of the time, and at the very best I can talk about any of LeGuinn's winning books several decades later and find young people gushing about them.
We would have never known Chuck Tingle without them
I read a lot of the Hugo Award short story collections and it's a great way to get into sci-fi. They're usually pretty good if not excellent. If you like the author's style, you can go out and look up more of their work. If you don't, not a problem, it's just a short story anyway.
Well my country (bit unfair to say that I know, our piece of shit Hungarian government did everything it could to keep Krasznahorkai down) just got it's second Nobel prize in Literature so I'm a bit biased, but it didn't really feel like a marketing stunt to me.