RAFO Book Awards:
* Book of the RAFO Year
1. Jeff VanderMeer, Finch
2. (tie) A.S. Byatt, The Children's Book
3. Caitlín Kiernan, The Red Tree
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Best Fantasy1. Jeff VanderMeer, Finch
2. Zoran Živkovi?, Escher's Loops
3. Michal Ajvaz, The Golden Age
* Best Sci-Fi
1. Caitlín Kiernan, The Red Tree
2. Cherie Priest, Boneshaker
3. Michal Ajvaz, The Other City
* Best Other Literature (basically, all the other genres)
1. AS Byatt, The Children's Book
2. Terrence Holt, In the Valley of the Kings (collection)
3. Paul Auster, Invisible
* Best Non-fiction
1. Stephen T. Asma, On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears
2. Umberto Eco, The Infinity of Lists/The Vertigo of Lists
3. Mark Bould and China Miéville (eds.), Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction
* Best author blog/twitter
Not a follower of any.
* Most anticipated book (as of yet unpublished)
1. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (eds.), The Weird: A Compendium of Dark and Strange Fictions
2. Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless
RAFO SF/F MB Awards:
*Poster of the Year
Not voting for myself or anyone else. Just only about the books.
* Best Book Club discussion
I guess if I want to vote for a trainwreck, I'll vote for the Monte Cristo one
* Best book review
No vote.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.
The RAFO Awards: voting thread
- 25/08/2010 12:17:29 AM
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Why be silent? Here's my votes, in a top 3 ranking
- 25/08/2010 08:32:39 AM
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Final answers
- 25/08/2010 03:27:11 PM
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The Hugo system does look good, but seems like it'd have problems with small amounts of voters.
- 25/08/2010 04:11:48 PM
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Well, I could blog about it, I suppose... 
- 25/08/2010 04:22:35 PM
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- 25/08/2010 04:22:35 PM
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Aw, wouldn't you be honoured if you won?
- 25/08/2010 04:42:21 PM
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- 25/08/2010 04:42:21 PM
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Why have I only heard of one of the best fantasy books? *NM*
- 25/08/2010 09:25:15 PM
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Maybe you don't read enough.
- 25/08/2010 09:31:28 PM
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- 25/08/2010 09:31:28 PM
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They were? I don't remember hearing a peep. Are they mainstream? *NM*
- 25/08/2010 10:03:48 PM
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Robin Hobb certainly is.
- 25/08/2010 10:07:42 PM
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Yeah Robin Hobb was the only one I knew (other than RJ of course)
- 25/08/2010 10:12:40 PM
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really? these dragon books are quite disappointing in comparison to her earlier work *NM*
- 27/08/2010 12:41:27 AM
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I've voted, too
- 26/08/2010 07:59:41 PM
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We already know some of your votes, Camilla
- 26/08/2010 08:03:36 PM
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