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Page 8 On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Eric Scoles <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been poking around on the web and I can't find a source. (If it's from > SFC, the most recent issue online is September.) Without that, it's hard to > make anything at all out if it, since there's little context. For example, > who's lists are these from -- writers, fans, critics,all of the above? (You > use the word 'critics', so I might assume just critics. If so, I didn't know > there were that many.) > As for the popular versus the critically successful -- now there's a > discussion. I decided a long time ago that critical success (at least w.r.t. > literature) doesn't have a hell of a lot to do with whether I'll like a book > or not. > > > > On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:55 PM, SteveC <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> My friend Bob Sabella went though a large number of lists of the best >> books of 2008 and created a composite listing of the most mentioned >> titles for his apazine. I'm sure he won't mind my copying the list >> here. It sort of formats for me, so I hope it's not too unreadable >> once Google does the usual horrible things it does to text. Three of >> the top four books are Hugo nominated. The other two nominess, Charles >> Stross (Saturn's Children) and John Scalzi (Zoe's Tale), don't make >> even 3 best lists. I'm sure that says something or other about >> popularity and those darn intellectual critics who have been ruining >> the field since 1965. >> >> Title Author # of lists >> Anathem Neal Stephenson 17 >> Little Brother Cory Doctorow 15 >> Matter Iain M. Banks 9 >> The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman 7 >> Tender Morsels Margo Lanagan 6 >> The Quiet War Paul McAuley 6 >> Implied Spaces Walter Jon Williams 6 >> City at the End of Time Greg Bear 5 >> The Gone Away World Nick Harkaway 5 >> Sly Mongoose Tobias S. Buckell 4 >> Toll the Hounds Steven Erikson 4 >> The Shadow Year Jeffrey Ford 4 >> Pandemonium Daryl Gregory 4 >> The Steel Remains Richard Morgan 4 >> Liberation Brian Francis Slattery 4 >> The Dragons of Babel Michael Swanwick 4 >> Flood Stephen Baxter 3 >> Ink and Steel Elizabeth Bear 3 >> All the Windwracked Stars Elizabeth Bear 3 >> The January Dancer Michael Flynn 3 >> The Temporal Void Peter F. Hamilton 3 >> How to Make Friends With Demons Graham Joyce 3 >> The Night Sessions Ken MacLeod 3 >> Last Dragon J.M. McDermott 3 >> The Devil’s Eye Jack McDevitt 3 >> House of Suns Alastair Reynolds 3 >> >> >> > > > -- > eric scoles ([email protected]) > > > > -- Dave Henn [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
