And they wonder why I list internet searching as a skill on my resume. :-) On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Eric Scoles <[email protected]> wrote:
> Bless you. I did not dig far enough into the Google results, it seems. > So the answer seems to be all of the above. > > > > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Dave Henn <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Link a la Google: >> <http://efanzines.com/VoP/VoP139.pdf> >> >> 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]) >>> >>> >>> >> >> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
