Survey Results! Also: Qs for Q&A?
Added 2017-03-22 14:20:18 +0000 UTCHi folks. As I've mentioned, I've had other stuff going on lately, but am getting back into things. Better late than never, I'm now taking questions for the March Q&A for patrons, which will obviously be a little late. Let's say get your Qs in by Friday night/Saturday morning at midnight EDT, and I'll put the video together over the weekend. You can post your questions here. Note that this post is public, so for once, yes, I'm taking questions from the general public. The video will be patrons-only as usual, tho'.
In the meantime, intrepid assistant Essowe has compiled the top 20 results from last month's survey of what N. K. Jemisin readers considered the best books of 2016. There was a bit of confusion re the directions (best books published in 2016 or best books read in 2016? also, lots of you listed my books, even tho I said not to!), but the results are kind of cool, I think. I've extracted my books from the set. Attached is the complete results table with numbers of votes for each, but here's the top 20:
- Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee
- Every Heart a Doorway, Seanan McGuire
- Too Like the Lightning, Ada Palmer
- All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders
- City of Blades, Robert Jackson Bennett
- Four Roads Cross, Max Gladstone
- A Closed and Common Orbit, Rebecca Chambers
- Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, Lois McMaster Bujold
- The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
- Babylon's Ashes, James S. A. Corey
- A Taste of Honey, Kai Ashante Wilson
- Once Broken Faith, Seanan McGuire
- Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi
- Company Town, Madeline Ashby
- Borderline, Mishell Baker
- Infomocracy, Malka Older
- Binti, Nnedi Okorafor
- Summer in Orcus, Vernon or Kingfisher??
- The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, Kij Johnson
- Midnight Taxi Tango, Daniel Jose Older
Any surprises? Note: AFAICT, Ursula Vernon wrote Summer in Orcus. I can't tell if she's published it under a different name or if the Kingfisher book is a different book? Anybody want to enlighten? Also, both Olders made the list, lol.
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4 of my favourite novels of 2016 up there - and otherwise, thanks for the recs! I'm doing @tinytempest's reading challenge of "anything but white male authors" for 2018 (albeit slightly modified, my younger stepbrother (bi, disabled white male writer) talked me into including queer & disabled WM if I can confirm their status) so any diverse fiction recs for authors I've yet to explore will be useful on that front. ^^
Tria Hall
2018-01-17 20:32:02 +0000 UTC
