Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: silly
  • Music: Julie Brown, "Girl Fight Tonight."

Let's! Get! DANGEROUS!

Toby has managed to navigate the wilds of the Kingdom of Prestor John, smacking down The Habitation of the Blessed in round three of the BSC Book Tournament and proceeding to the quarterfinals, where it's An Artificial Night against Elizabeth Bear's Chill. Bear and I have been enthusiastically attacking each other on Twitter in anticipation of this match (I have predatory dinosaurs, she has balrogs and the forces of logic), and now it's finally here!

You have what you have to do.

Go ye forth, get thee funky, and vote like your life depended on it! Which, given the number of monsters we have merrily marching around here, it just might. Toby has smacked the crap out of three challengers in three different bouts. This is your chance to help her smack the crap out of challenger number four, and proceed to the semifinals, where she can begin to merrily swing her sock full of butter* at challengers from different brackets.

(*Sock full of butter: makes a great bludgeoning weapon, and when you're done, you have a sock full of nicely softened butter, ready to be turned into cookies. Everybody wins! Except maybe the people you hit with the sock full of butter.)
Tags: an artificial night, contest, requesting things, silliness, toby daye
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  • 49 comments

maverick_weirdo

April 8 2011, 15:07:59 UTC 6 years ago

The problem of this type of contest is that eventually you have to choose between 2 books you are a big fan of.

I am referring of course to Malazan Empire Bracket where we have The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin against Geist by Philippa Ballantine. Ironically they are both authors I discovered through podcasting.

In the Westeros Bracket I am firmly in Toby's camp

yellowblackhaze

April 10 2011, 22:39:35 UTC 6 years ago

Yes, had that problem last week when Toby took on Habitation of the Blessed. Coincidentally the only 2 books in the bracket I had actually read.

maverick_weirdo

April 10 2011, 23:13:52 UTC 6 years ago

I was feeling poor last year and bought very few new releases. In spite of that I have read 4 books from this bracket:
An Artificial Night by Seanan McGuire
Habitation of the Blessed by Catherynne M. Valente
Imager’s Intrigue by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal