The Hugo Award for best novel is wrongfully considered by many to be one of the premier science fiction awards for the written word in speculative fiction. The prizes, awarded by the World Science Fiction Society at the annual Worldcon, are voted on by all the members an attendees. It’s essentially a popularity contest. By the 2000s it was regularly awarded to Fantasy novels as well, which is fair enough because the distinction can at times be muddy.
Presaging Gamergate, 2013 saw the rise of a movement called the “Sad Puppies,” a campaign launched by people frustrated by what they saw as a trend towards giving the Hugo award to literary works and socially progressive themes. The campaigns aimed to create voting blocks for their works of choice: mostly right wing, military science fiction.

This book SUCKED, I absolutely hated reading it.