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Aug. 17th, 2011 08:54 amSo, one of the ways in which I am a ginormous nerd is that in the last couple of years, since I started keeping track of what I read, I have started assigning myself goals for the books I read--not just a number of books, but within that a number of non-fiction books, a number of books of poetry, a number of books published in the current year, and so on.
One of my assignments for this year is to read five past award-winning SF/F books, and to keep myself from getting totally overwhelmed I decided to target books from years ending in 1. The first four books I read for the assignment were the Hugo winners I hadn't read before (1981 - Joan D Vinge's The Snow Queen, 1971 - Larry Niven's Ringworld, 1961 - Walter Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz, and the 1951 Retro Hugo - Robert A. Heinlein's A Farmer in the Sky) and that leaves me without an obvious choice for my fifth book.
So, obviously time for a poll! My selections are taken mostly from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
truepenny's list of SF/F/H award-winners, 1953-2009, plus the Wikipedia entries for the winners of the Lambda Literary Award and the Gaylactic Spectrum Award, minus books I've read before, already know I don't want to read, or can't get through my local library system. That still leaves thirteen books I know very little about except that they've won some sort of award in a year ending in 1, so feel free to give your opinions in the comments if your feelings are not sufficiently expressed by clicking a radio button!
One of my assignments for this year is to read five past award-winning SF/F books, and to keep myself from getting totally overwhelmed I decided to target books from years ending in 1. The first four books I read for the assignment were the Hugo winners I hadn't read before (1981 - Joan D Vinge's The Snow Queen, 1971 - Larry Niven's Ringworld, 1961 - Walter Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz, and the 1951 Retro Hugo - Robert A. Heinlein's A Farmer in the Sky) and that leaves me without an obvious choice for my fifth book.
So, obviously time for a poll! My selections are taken mostly from
truepenny's list of SF/F/H award-winners, 1953-2009, plus the Wikipedia entries for the winners of the Lambda Literary Award and the Gaylactic Spectrum Award, minus books I've read before, already know I don't want to read, or can't get through my local library system. That still leaves thirteen books I know very little about except that they've won some sort of award in a year ending in 1, so feel free to give your opinions in the comments if your feelings are not sufficiently expressed by clicking a radio button!Poll #7840 Help me pick a book to read!
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Which of these books should I read first?
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A Woman of the Iron People, by Eleanor Arnason
10 (20.8%)
Timescape, by Gregory Benford
5 (10.4%)
Jumping off the Planet, by David Gerrold
1 (2.1%)
The Gilda Stories: a novel, by Jewelle Gomez
3 (6.2%)
White Queen, by Gwyneth Jones
0 (0.0%)
Thomas, the Rhymer, by Ellen Kushner
10 (20.8%)
Only Begotten Daughter, by James Morrow
5 (10.4%)
Declare, by Tim Powers
3 (6.2%)
The Dark Beyond the Stars, by Frank M. Robinson
1 (2.1%)
Ship of Fools, Richard Paul Russo
0 (0.0%)
Point of Dreams, by Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett
6 (12.5%)
Galveston, by Sean Stewart
4 (8.3%)
Stations of the Tide, by Michael Swanwick
0 (0.0%)