What does it say that the four top awards for science fiction had zero consensus on what deserved to be honored last year? In America, the Hugo is awarded by the fans, and the Nebula by professional authors (technically the Hugo is worldwide, but American voters are the majority). Where a minority of fans, called either the Rabid Puppies or Sad Puppies tried to stack the Hugo nominees, there is great disparity between the two lists. Where these groups failed to stack the nominations, the lists align fairly closely.

Now let’s look at the British side: The Arthur C. Clarke and BFSA (British Fantasy and Science Fiction) Awards don’t align with the American choices at all, and don’t match up with each other either, with only one nominee being on both lists, and winning on neither. Also interesting is that the winners of both the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Nebula Award don’t appear as a finalist on any of the other awards.