I am not aware of any critical people inside this community (e.g. people who would be similarly critical to me) getting copies in advance, except for people who write book reviews.
I also don’t think sympathetic people who aren’t writing book reviews got copies in-advance, so my best guess is stuff is relatively symmetric. I don’t really know how copies were distributed, but my sense is not that many advance copies were distributed in-total (my sense is largely downstream of publisher preference).
Aella is the partner of one of the authors! Of course she had advance access! I don’t know about Grimes, seems plausible to me (though not super clear whether to count here as sympathetic or critical, I don’t really know what she believes about this stuff, and also she has a lot of reach otherwise).
I am not aware of any critical people inside this community (e.g. people who would be similarly critical to me) getting copies in advance, except for people who write book reviews.
I also don’t think sympathetic people who aren’t writing book reviews got copies in-advance, so my best guess is stuff is relatively symmetric. I don’t really know how copies were distributed, but my sense is not that many advance copies were distributed in-total (my sense is largely downstream of publisher preference).
IIRC Aella and Grimes got copies in advance and AFAIK haven’t written book reviews (at least not in the sense Scott or the press did).
Aella is the partner of one of the authors! Of course she had advance access! I don’t know about Grimes, seems plausible to me (though not super clear whether to count here as sympathetic or critical, I don’t really know what she believes about this stuff, and also she has a lot of reach otherwise).