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Re: Since it seems nobody wants to publicize their choices, here's some of mine Camilla Send a noteboard - 11/08/2010 11:35:30 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


Was that really published this year? Huh. I need to get my chronometer going according to the timeline of the real world.

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


This one must be older. Surely!

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* Most anticipated book (as of yet unpublished)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!
*MySmiley*
structured procrastinator
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The RAFO Book Awards 2010 - Nominations closed. Voting thread on Monday. Rebekah - 09/08/2010 06:45:13 PM 1003 Views
Links to the Book Club posts for your convenience. Legolas - 10/08/2010 04:51:09 PM 565 Views
None of those books qualify for any of these categories. *NM* Aeryn - 20/08/2010 10:20:10 PM 188 Views
Except Camilla - 20/08/2010 10:34:01 PM 380 Views
Question Camilla - 10/08/2010 04:53:06 PM 484 Views
Published. *NM* Rebekah - 10/08/2010 06:30:22 PM 193 Views
Then I have nothing to contribute on that score, I think Camilla - 10/08/2010 07:35:30 PM 399 Views
That's too restricting. You expect us to have read books published in the last month? Come on Aeryn - 20/08/2010 10:19:39 PM 448 Views
You've got books from August 2009 till July 2010. Rebekah - 20/08/2010 10:43:22 PM 410 Views
It's extremely unrealistic to expect anyone other than people who get ARC's to read books released Aeryn - 20/08/2010 11:30:25 PM 449 Views
Why do you keep talking about a month and months when the period is a year? I'm confused. Legolas - 20/08/2010 11:42:22 PM 394 Views
I suspect Camilla - 20/08/2010 11:52:16 PM 514 Views
The period is 0.5 months to 1 year, 0.5 months. Aeryn - 21/08/2010 01:03:47 AM 620 Views
I still don't understand you. Rebekah - 21/08/2010 12:57:53 AM 406 Views
You need to add categories "Favorite book read in Aug 2009-Jul 2010 release in prior years.) *NM* Aeryn - 21/08/2010 01:05:02 AM 236 Views
She's just noting that most of the eligible books are hardcovers and thus aren't read by many Larry - 21/08/2010 01:13:21 AM 548 Views
OK. Rebekah - 21/08/2010 10:10:54 AM 365 Views
Don't think I've read enough to nominate Stephen - 10/08/2010 08:00:15 PM 426 Views
To you and Camilla both: you can limit your nominations to a few categories, you know. Legolas - 10/08/2010 08:29:59 PM 677 Views
I've nominated Camilla - 10/08/2010 09:05:31 PM 448 Views
Excellent. *NM* Legolas - 10/08/2010 09:24:00 PM 177 Views
Since it seems nobody wants to publicize their choices, here's some of mine Larry - 11/08/2010 07:50:12 PM 651 Views
Yes. But thanks for yours! They're rolling in steadily now. *NM* Rebekah - 11/08/2010 09:03:01 PM 201 Views
I sure hope you get more than 15 or so Larry - 11/08/2010 09:05:58 PM 404 Views
Re: Since it seems nobody wants to publicize their choices, here's some of mine Camilla - 11/08/2010 11:35:30 PM 668 Views
I have a list of all the reviews you (and everyone else) posted over the past year... Legolas - 11/08/2010 11:45:14 PM 395 Views
Re: I have a list of all the reviews you (and everyone else) posted over the past year... Camilla - 11/08/2010 11:47:15 PM 541 Views
One difficulty: Rebekah - 11/08/2010 11:51:16 PM 578 Views
Tricky, tricky Camilla - 11/08/2010 11:53:20 PM 694 Views
But, yes please Camilla - 12/08/2010 07:23:12 PM 399 Views
Okay. List of reviews of the past year: Legolas - 12/08/2010 08:49:18 PM 700 Views
Thanks. *NM* Camilla - 12/08/2010 08:51:37 PM 305 Views
I went by US release dates Larry - 12/08/2010 12:18:08 AM 386 Views
I don't think I've read anything released this year. Ghavrel - 12/08/2010 01:05:57 AM 501 Views
Honestly, I don't really read too many..... MsMandragoran - 20/08/2010 02:21:04 PM 540 Views
Re: The RAFO Book Awards 2010 - Call for Nominations (1 week to go!) Aeryn - 20/08/2010 11:29:10 PM 549 Views
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