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]) >> >> >> > > > -- > Dave Henn > [email protected] > > > > > -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
