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.

You can vote for up to three books, with your first place vote counting as 3 points, second place as 2 and third place as 1. If you vote for fewer than three books, your vote is obviously counted as a first place, or first and second place, vote.


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 Živkovi? ~ 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* Most anticipated book (as of yet unpublished)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
<a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/scififantasy/messageboard/101660/">Danae alThor's Solaris review</a>
<a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/scififantasy/messageboard/80925/">Legolas' Twilight review </a>
<a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/scififantasy/messageboard/12857/">TaskmasterJack's review of The Last Ballad of Johnny Guitar</a>
<a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/scififantasy/messageboard/73241/">Tom's review of The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy</a>
<a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/scififantasy/messageboard/93763/">Tom's review of A Night in the Lonesome October</a>
<a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/scififantasy/messageboard/72138/">Camilla's review of Hannah Montana: Crushtastic</a>