Blue Roses Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 [quote name='Eloisa' post='1326211' date='Apr 23 2008, 14.14']Blue Roses, you're taking me back to my childhood. I loved the Princess and the Goblin![/quote] I know, George tends to get forgotten now but these are cracking stories, as good as Alice, Water Babies and Peter Pan and deserve to be read. I know I will definately reading them to my sprogs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maid of Tarth Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 [quote name='Blue Roses' post='1326244' date='Apr 23 2008, 06.42']I know, George tends to get forgotten now but these are cracking stories, as good as Alice, Water Babies and Peter Pan and deserve to be read. I know I will definately reading them to my sprogs.[/quote] Those are fantastic books. In packing away my childhood books (no more room!), I left them on the shelf without hesitation. They deserve to be there- glad to know I'm not the only one who likes them! :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Thursday Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 1. Steven Erikson 2. Peter F. Hamilton 3. Terry Pratchett 4. Ian McDonald 5. George R.R. Martin Also considered: Abercrombie, Mieville, Lynch, Banks, Watts, Parker, Wurts, Bakker, Morgan Sir Thursday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaerv Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 1. JRR Tolkien (dated but nevertheless extremely fascinating. Its very rare that I read a book twice, such as LotR...) 2. Bram Stoker (I read "Dracula" the first time when I was nine years old. The result was a proper childhood-neurosis: Nightmares for weeks, constant feelings of dread, was not able to leave my room after sunset without "weapons", i.e. holy water stolen from our church, a crucifix, garlic.... my poor parents were seriously concerned. I read the book again as an adult and found it impressive not only to a boy's mind... :leaving: 3. Joe Abercrombie (I've just finished "First Law": Very dark, deep, absorbing, intelligent; and it includes some of the most memorable characters I've read in a very long time.) 4. Robin Hobb (she has her weaknesses in my opinion, e.g. some implausible turns of the storyline, but her characters are very well painted and quite likeable and the "Six Duchies"-world includes some rather unusual and interesting features, e.g. liveships, a matrilinear society, dragons with a complex live cycle etc.) 5. GRR Martin (rank five instead of one only because ASoIaF is not finished yet.) By the way: This ranking is a really great idea! Thanks a lot for it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benowar Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 1) Steven Erikson 2) GRRM 3) R. Scott Bakker 4) Guy Gavriel Kay 5) Joe Abercrombie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoë Sumra Posted May 1, 2008 Share Posted May 1, 2008 April is over. So the winners are... *drumroll* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted May 3, 2008 Author Share Posted May 3, 2008 And to round off, my votes: 1) GRRM 2) Peter F. Hamilton 3) Jack Vance 4) Neil Gaiman 5) Gene Wolfe I noted a lot of people saying that they wouldn't vote for GRRM because ASoIaF wasn't complete. Laudable, but there's also [i]Fevre Dream[/i], [i]The Armageddon Rag[/i], [i]Windhaven[/i],[i] Dying of the Light[/i] and the stories in [i]Dreamsongs[/i] to consider, which I think puts him ahead of my other favourite stories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Ent Posted May 5, 2008 Share Posted May 5, 2008 'head, I assume that you who started this take on the tallying duties? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted May 6, 2008 Author Share Posted May 6, 2008 I have, and my soul is being eroded. I'm about 50% of the way through and snowed under by work and housemoving issues. I'm hoping to polish it off on the weekend. Mid-vote commentary: A massive surprise who's in the lead ;) Probably no surprise who's in second. However, the jump in votes from second place to third is titanic. Third place is surprising, given he is so divisive on the boards. The low showing for Erikson and particularly Pratchett is also startling. But still all to play for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaerv Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 Hey Werthead, I was too curious to wait any longer and started to count the votes a few hours ago, just for fun because I wanted to see who's in the lead and whether my favorites will make a good position etc. Now I'm half way through and could probably finish the vote-counting and ranking tonight. Would this be okay for you? Or do you prefer to finish his job yourself? Of course, this whole project was your idea, so if you don't want me to publish the results I won't do it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maid of Tarth Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 Is it too late to add my votes? Yes? Maybe? Here they are anyway..... Neil Gaiman GRRM Douglas Adams Ursula K. Le Guin Susanna Clarke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted May 6, 2008 Author Share Posted May 6, 2008 Sorry, but I'd prefer to finish it myself ;) Tradition, I did the board's Top PC Games thing last year and it was cool. I'll try to attend it in the next few days. And yeah, I suppose people can continue to add to the list for now. If it suddenly explodes again I may have to clamp down on it, as I'll never catch up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oddy Posted May 7, 2008 Share Posted May 7, 2008 Any thoughts on doing a non-Fantasy/Science Fiction list in May? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigei Posted May 11, 2008 Share Posted May 11, 2008 1. Roger Zelazny 2. Ursula Le Guin 3. Gene Wolfe (I can't believe he doesn't have more votes!) 4. Isaac Asimov 5. Michael Moorcock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted May 11, 2008 Author Share Posted May 11, 2008 Counting completed. Results shortly :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophelia Posted May 11, 2008 Share Posted May 11, 2008 [quote name='Werthead' post='1351061' date='May 11 2008, 16.19']Counting completed. Results shortly :)[/quote] Suspense! :uhoh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted May 11, 2008 Author Share Posted May 11, 2008 So, 85 people voted for 101 authors (technically 103 since two of those were collaborators). [b] The Ones [/b]These are the authors who get exactly one vote apiece. Iain M. Banks Clive Barker Ray Bradbury Joy Dara David Eddings Glen Cook Jonathan Lethem George MacDonald Robin McKinley Patricia McKillip Edgar Allen Poe Frederick Pohl Kurt Vonnegut Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman [b]The Twos [/b]As above, but with just two votes apiece. Richard Adams Amanda Ashley Franz Kafka Milan Kundera Greg Bear Edward Whittemore Octavia Butler Ben Bova David B. Coe William Gibson Julian May Ian McDonald Ian R. McLeod Michael Moorcock Garth Nix Philip Pullman Jeff VanderMeer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted May 11, 2008 Author Share Posted May 11, 2008 [b]The Threes[/b] Margaret Attwood Bulgakov Walter M. Miller Anne McCaffrey Stephen King Charlie Huston Tad Williams C.S. Friedman Andrzej Sapkowski Theodore Sturgeon HG Wells Michelle West [b]The Fours[/b] Greg Egan David Gemmell Patrick Suskind Bram Stoker George Orwell Alan Moore Tim Powers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky Catherynne Valente Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted May 11, 2008 Author Share Posted May 11, 2008 [b]The Fives [/b] Connie Willis HP Lovecraft Haruki Murakami Matthew Stover Robert A. Heinlein Alastair Reynolds Harlan Ellison Michael Chabon Jonathan Carrol Lois McMaster Bujold [b]The Six [/b]Graham Joyce [b]The Sevens[/b] Jim Butcher Thomas Pynchon Neal Stephenson [b]The Eights [/b]Umberto Eco CS Lewis Raymond E. Fiest [b]The Nine [/b]Richard K. Morgan [b]The Tens [/b]Peter F. Hamilton Orson Scott Card Steven Brust [b]The Elevens [/b]Mervyn Peake Sir Arthur C. Clarke [b]The Fourteens [/b]Italo Calvino Isaac Asimov Robert Jordan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted May 11, 2008 Author Share Posted May 11, 2008 Switching over to a new system: [b]Jorge Luis Borges[/b] (15 votes) [b]Douglas Adams[/b] (17) [b]Neil Gaiman [/b](18) [b]Dan Simmons [/b](18) [b]Christopher Priest [/b](20) [b]Terry Pratchett [/b](20) [b]Guy Gavriel Kay [/b](20) [b]Jack Vance [/b](21) [b]Philip K. Dick [/b](22) [b]Ursula K. LeGuin[/b] (22) [b]Roger Zelazny[/b] (22) [b]Scott Lynch [/b](26) Next up, the Top Ten! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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