Hi Rafonauts

It's a little late, I'm sorry, but here you are. You can vote now! Do it by reply to this, or Noteboard Jacob or Legolas (NOT me because I won't be here).

Voting will close at midnight RAFO time (currently British summer time, if you're not sure) on Sunday/Monday coming (that's 29/30 August, depending on how you look at things).

So here they are, the nominations for our inaugural Book & SF/F MB Awards.


RAFO Book Awards:

* Book of the RAFO Year
Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson ~ The Gathering Storm
Jeff VanderMeer ~ Finch
A.S. Byatt ~ The Children's Book
Caitlín Kiernan ~ The Red Tree
Elizabeth Bear ~ By the Mountain Bound
Laini Taylor ~ Lips Touch: Three Times
Mike Allen, ed. ~ Clockwork Phoenix: New Tales of Beauty and Strangeness
Kristin Cashore ~ Fire
N.K. Jemisin ~ The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

* Best Fantasy
Robin Hobb ~ Dragon Haven
Jeff VanderMeer ~ Finch
Zoran Živković ~ Escher's Loops
Michal Ajvaz ~ The Golden Age
Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson ~ The Gathering Storm
Elizabeth Bear ~ By the Mountain Bound
Laini Taylor ~ Lips Touch: Three Times
Mike Allen, ed. ~ Clockwork Phoenix: New Tales of Beauty and Strangeness
Kristin Cashore ~ Fire
N.K. Jemisin ~ The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

* Best Sci-Fi
Caitlín Kiernan ~ The Red Tree
Cherie Priest ~ Boneshaker
Michal Ajvaz ~ The Other City
Elizabeth Bear ~ Chill
Paolo Bacigalupi ~ The Windup Girl

* Best Other Literature (basically, all the other genres)
AS Byatt ~ The Children's Book
Terrence Holt ~ In the Valley of the Kings (collection)
Paul Auster ~ Invisible

* Best Non-fiction
Stephen T. Asma, On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears
Umberto Eco, The Infinity of Lists/The Vertigo of Lists
Mark Bould and China Miéville (eds.), Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction

* Best author blog/twitter
Stephen Fry
Nick Harkaway
Brandon Sanderson

* Most anticipated book (as of yet unpublished)
Nick Harkaway's new book
Second volume of Stephen Fry's autobiography
Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson ~ A Memory of Light
Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (eds.) ~ The Weird: A Compendium of Dark and Strange Fictions
Catherynne M. Valente ~ Deathless
Lyda Morehouse ~ Resurrection Code
Lois McMaster Bujold ~ Cryoburn
C.S. Friedman ~ Legacy of Kings - (the conclusion to the Magister Trilogy)
Elizabeth Bear ~ The Sea Thy Mistress (conclusion to the Edda of Burdens trilogy)
Elizabeth Bear ~ Grail
N.K. Jemisin ~ Broken Kingdoms
Catherine Asaro ~ Carnelians
Janny Wurts ~ Initiate's Trial



RAFO SF/F MB Awards:

*Poster of the Year
Tom
Camilla
Werthead
Larry
Bryce


* Best Book Club discussion
Solaris
Gone-Away World
The Count of Monte Cristo

* Best book review
Danae alThor's Solaris review
Legolas' Twilight review
TaskmasterJack's review of The Last Ballad of Johnny Guitar
Tom's review of The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy
Tom's review of A Night in the Lonesome October
Camilla's review of Hannah Montana: Crushtastic