Re: The RAFO Book Awards 2010 - Call for Nominations (1 week to go!)
Aeryn Send a noteboard - 20/08/2010 11:29:10 PM
Because I disagree with how you're doing this - I'll do two versions:
Released Aug 2008 - July 2010:
RAFO Book Awards:
* Book of the RAFO Year
What is this supposed to be? My favorite book released in the year? Or the book that I think was discussed and liked the most by the community at large? If it's the former, then I nominate the 4 books listed under "Best Fantasy."
* Best Fantasy
Elizabeth Bear ~ By the Mountain Bound - (Oct 2009)
Laini Taylor ~ Lips Touch: Three Times - (Oct 2009)
Mike Allen, ed. ~ Clockwork Phoenix: New Tales of Beauty and Strangeness - (July 2010)
Kristin Cashore ~ Fire - (Oct 2009)
N.K. Jemisin ~ The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms - (Feb 2010)
* Best Sci-Fi
Elizabeth Bear ~ Chill - (Feb 2010)
Paolo Bacigalupi ~ The Windup Girl - (Sep 2009)
(although I didn't care for these very much)
* Most anticipated book (as of yet unpublished)
Catherynne M. Valente ~ Deathless - (Mar 2011)
Lyda Morehouse ~ Resurrection Code - (Mar 2011)
Lois McMaster Bujold ~ Cryoburn - (Oct 2010)
C.S. Friedman ~ Legacy of Kings - (the conclusion to the Magister Trilogy)(???)
Elizabeth Bear ~ The Sea Thy Mistress - (Feb 2011) (conclusion to the Edda of Burdens trilogy)
Elizabeth Bear ~ Grail - (Feb 2011)
N.K. Jemisin ~ Broken Kingdoms - (Nov 2010)
Catherine Asaro ~ Carnelians - (2011)
Read Aug 2009 - July 2010, prior releases:
* Best Fantasy
Tanith Lee ~ Night's Master - (new release Sep 2009, orig 1978 )
Tanith Lee ~ Sung in Shadow - (May 1983)
Tanith Lee ~ White As Snow - (Dec 2001)
Felix Gilman ~ Thunderer - (Dec 2007)
Michael Cisco ~ The Tyrant - (Mar 2004)
Catherynne M. Valente - A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects - (May 2008 ) (this is poetry. is this a good place for it? or should it be under "other literature?)
Catherynne M. Valente - The Labyrinth - (Apr 2006)
Paul Park ~ A Princess of Roumania - (Jun 2005)
* Best Sci-Fi
Walter Jon Williams ~ Conventions of War (Dread Empire's Fall) - (released Sep 2005)
Walter Jon Williams ~ Metropolitan - (Feb 1996)
China Mieville ~ The City & The City - (May 2009)
Daryl Gregory ~ Pandemonium - (Aug 2008 )
Elisabeth Vonarburg ~ The Maerlande Chronicles - (Nov 2002)
L. Timmel Duchamp ~ Tsunami - (Jan 2007)
Sheri S. Tepper ~ The Gate to Women's Country - (Aug 1988 )
Raphael Carter ~ The Fortunate Fall - (Apr 1997)
* Best Other Literature / Non-fiction
Terri Cheney - Manic: A Memoir - (Feb 2009)
(really unsure where it fits in. it's biographical but reads like a novel)
Released Aug 2008 - July 2010:
RAFO Book Awards:
* Book of the RAFO Year
What is this supposed to be? My favorite book released in the year? Or the book that I think was discussed and liked the most by the community at large? If it's the former, then I nominate the 4 books listed under "Best Fantasy."
* Best Fantasy
Elizabeth Bear ~ By the Mountain Bound - (Oct 2009)
Laini Taylor ~ Lips Touch: Three Times - (Oct 2009)
Mike Allen, ed. ~ Clockwork Phoenix: New Tales of Beauty and Strangeness - (July 2010)
Kristin Cashore ~ Fire - (Oct 2009)
N.K. Jemisin ~ The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms - (Feb 2010)
* Best Sci-Fi
Elizabeth Bear ~ Chill - (Feb 2010)
Paolo Bacigalupi ~ The Windup Girl - (Sep 2009)
(although I didn't care for these very much)
* Most anticipated book (as of yet unpublished)
Catherynne M. Valente ~ Deathless - (Mar 2011)
Lyda Morehouse ~ Resurrection Code - (Mar 2011)
Lois McMaster Bujold ~ Cryoburn - (Oct 2010)
C.S. Friedman ~ Legacy of Kings - (the conclusion to the Magister Trilogy)(???)
Elizabeth Bear ~ The Sea Thy Mistress - (Feb 2011) (conclusion to the Edda of Burdens trilogy)
Elizabeth Bear ~ Grail - (Feb 2011)
N.K. Jemisin ~ Broken Kingdoms - (Nov 2010)
Catherine Asaro ~ Carnelians - (2011)
Read Aug 2009 - July 2010, prior releases:
* Best Fantasy
Tanith Lee ~ Night's Master - (new release Sep 2009, orig 1978 )
Tanith Lee ~ Sung in Shadow - (May 1983)
Tanith Lee ~ White As Snow - (Dec 2001)
Felix Gilman ~ Thunderer - (Dec 2007)
Michael Cisco ~ The Tyrant - (Mar 2004)
Catherynne M. Valente - A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects - (May 2008 ) (this is poetry. is this a good place for it? or should it be under "other literature?)
Catherynne M. Valente - The Labyrinth - (Apr 2006)
Paul Park ~ A Princess of Roumania - (Jun 2005)
* Best Sci-Fi
Walter Jon Williams ~ Conventions of War (Dread Empire's Fall) - (released Sep 2005)
Walter Jon Williams ~ Metropolitan - (Feb 1996)
China Mieville ~ The City & The City - (May 2009)
Daryl Gregory ~ Pandemonium - (Aug 2008 )
Elisabeth Vonarburg ~ The Maerlande Chronicles - (Nov 2002)
L. Timmel Duchamp ~ Tsunami - (Jan 2007)
Sheri S. Tepper ~ The Gate to Women's Country - (Aug 1988 )
Raphael Carter ~ The Fortunate Fall - (Apr 1997)
* Best Other Literature / Non-fiction
Terri Cheney - Manic: A Memoir - (Feb 2009)
(really unsure where it fits in. it's biographical but reads like a novel)
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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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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