The way I see it, I read sci-fi for different ways of looking at the world. I realized that I had stopped reading straight-white-male authors, not by design, but just because it always felt like I had read it before. Even the really "innovative" ones were innovating within a really narrow set of parameters.

I have no idea what criteria the Hugo nominators use. And it's certainly not up to me to yuck anybody else's yum. But I can say that I'm finding a lot to think about in books by authors who would likely be dismissed as "woke" based solely on their appearance.