Since it seems nobody wants to publicize their choices, here's some of mine
Larry Send a noteboard - 11/08/2010 07:50:12 PM
Hi Rafonauts
Read And Find Out has been open now for nearly a year (30 August) so it’s fitting that we hold our inaugural RAFO Book Awards.
Submit your nominations for the categories either in a reply post or via NB to Jacob, Legolas or Rebekah (or all three). Nominations close on Friday 20 August. There’ll then be a week for voting, and winners will be Announced on Monday 30 August.
The 3 books with the most submissions will be the ones you vote on.
The RAFO Year is defined as: 1 August 2009 to 31 July 2010
So get thinking, and get nominating!
RAFO Book Awards:
* Book of the RAFO Year
1. Jeff VanderMeer, Finch
2. A.S. Byatt, The Children's Book
3. Caitlín Kiernan, The Red Tree
* Best Fantasy
1. Jeff VanderMeer, Finch
2. Zoran Živkovi?, Escher's Loops
3. Michal Ajvaz, The Golden Age
* Best Sci-Fi
1. Caitlín Kiernan, The Red Tree (more horror than SF, though)
2. Cherie Priest, Boneshaker
3. Michal Ajvaz, The Other City
* Best Other Literature (basically, all the other genres)
1. A.S. Byatt, The Children's Book
2. Terrence Holt, In the Valley of the Kings (collection)
3. Paul Auster, Invisible
* Best Non-fiction
1. Stephen T. Asma, On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears
2. Umberto Eco, The Infinity of Lists/The Vertigo of Lists
3. Mark Bould and China Miéville (eds.), Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction
* Best author blog/twitter
Are you wanting me to list my author friends here? I spend the most time at VanderMeer's Ecstatic Days blog, tease Mark Newton and Sam Sykes on Twitter, and browse through dozens of others any given day.
* Most anticipated book (as of yet unpublished)
Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (eds.), The Weird: A Compendium of Dark and Strange Fictions, in large part due to my first published translation appearing there.
RAFO SF/F MB Awards:
*Poster of the Year – as in the person who you feel contributes most across the board, in discussions, reviews, surveys, etc (not admins!).
Milli Vanilli
* Best Book Club discussion (this of course includes the Russian Book Club) – you might have to search a wee bit, but it’s not too bad! Look in the category “Book Club” for the official ones, and use the search term “Russian Book Club” for the other.
I liked how the Monte Cristo one turned out
* Best book review – again, you might have to search a little. The two categories to look through are “Review” and “Reviews”
Milli Vanilli's reviews, again.
We might be nice and provide a post below with links to the various reviews and book clubs that have appeared over the year.
Obviously, this is the first time we've done this, so things might need a little bit of tweaking.
But it's really about a little bit of "fun" and getting involved, so don't worry too much!
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.
The RAFO Book Awards 2010 - Nominations closed. Voting thread on Monday.
- 09/08/2010 06:45:13 PM
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Links to the Book Club posts for your convenience.
- 10/08/2010 04:51:09 PM
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Question
- 10/08/2010 04:53:06 PM
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Published. *NM*
- 10/08/2010 06:30:22 PM
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That's too restricting. You expect us to have read books published in the last month? Come on
- 20/08/2010 10:19:39 PM
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You've got books from August 2009 till July 2010.
- 20/08/2010 10:43:22 PM
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It's extremely unrealistic to expect anyone other than people who get ARC's to read books released
- 20/08/2010 11:30:25 PM
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Why do you keep talking about a month and months when the period is a year? I'm confused.
- 20/08/2010 11:42:22 PM
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I still don't understand you.
- 21/08/2010 12:57:53 AM
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You need to add categories "Favorite book read in Aug 2009-Jul 2010 release in prior years.) *NM*
- 21/08/2010 01:05:02 AM
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She's just noting that most of the eligible books are hardcovers and thus aren't read by many
- 21/08/2010 01:13:21 AM
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Don't think I've read enough to nominate
- 10/08/2010 08:00:15 PM
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To you and Camilla both: you can limit your nominations to a few categories, you know.
- 10/08/2010 08:29:59 PM
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*NM*
Since it seems nobody wants to publicize their choices, here's some of mine
- 11/08/2010 07:50:12 PM
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Re: Since it seems nobody wants to publicize their choices, here's some of mine
- 11/08/2010 11:35:30 PM
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I have a list of all the reviews you (and everyone else) posted over the past year...
- 11/08/2010 11:45:14 PM
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Re: I have a list of all the reviews you (and everyone else) posted over the past year...
- 11/08/2010 11:47:15 PM
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But, yes please
- 12/08/2010 07:23:12 PM
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Re: The RAFO Book Awards 2010 - Call for Nominations (1 week to go!)
- 20/08/2010 11:29:10 PM
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