Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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NPR wants your votes. And so do I.

Remember when Feed was named one of NPR's Top 100 Killer Thrillers? So do I. Good times, my friends, good times.

Now NPR is looking for the Top 100 Science Fiction/Fantasy Titles. And the Newsflesh trilogy, by Mira Grant, is on the list.

To be fair, this is a popularity contest. Some amazing books are missing. There's a heavy bias toward titles published in the last five years. But still. Wouldn't it be nice to make the list?

Go ye forth, and vote!
Tags: awards and stuff, mira grant, requesting things, shameless plea
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  • 24 comments

spectralbovine

August 3 2011, 17:27:36 UTC 5 years ago

It is kind of bizarre that Harry Potter isn't on there! But there are a lot of great books/series on that list! I couldn't pick just 10!

sdelmonte

August 3 2011, 17:29:33 UTC 5 years ago

They chose to leave of YA books, so no HP, no Narnia, no Duane Wizard books, etc.

That will be next year's list, maybe.

seanan_mcguire

August 3 2011, 17:34:39 UTC 5 years ago

I had the same issue.

priscellie

August 3 2011, 17:33:46 UTC 5 years ago

It's a very odd list. Codex Alera is there, but the Dresden Files is not, and Alera has about 3/5 the readership of Dresden. Maybe they excluded Urban Fantasy along with their dismissal of Horror and Paranormal Romance? Puzzling.

I'm thrilled to see Nick Harkaway's The Gone-Away World represented, though! Practically NO ONE I know has read it. In fact, the the only ones I know who have are the guy who told me to read it and a small handful of folks I told to read it), and it's one of my favorites. I hope this list inspires more folks to check it out!

seanan_mcguire

August 3 2011, 17:35:10 UTC 5 years ago

I think they must have excluded UF/PR; there are way too many high-ticket titles missing, not just Dresdent. But they had Bridge of Birds!

priscellie

August 3 2011, 17:37:48 UTC 5 years ago

Yeah, they said in their rules, "3. Horror and paranormal romance are also out, which disqualifies most of Stephen King (also a big winner in previous polls), Charlaine Harris and Stephenie Meyer. Once again, we'll cover horror in a future poll."

So I guess they're lumping those UF/PR sister genres together, even though they're really not the same thing at all. :D

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seanan_mcguire

August 5 2011, 18:54:04 UTC 5 years ago

Yay!

paragraphs

August 3 2011, 19:19:24 UTC 5 years ago

Done, and gladly!

seanan_mcguire

August 5 2011, 18:54:11 UTC 5 years ago

Glee.

zoethe

August 3 2011, 21:33:47 UTC 5 years ago

OMG, it took forever to vote because how do you choose just 10??! But of course I voted for you quite happily, and finally have a copy of Deadline-yay!!

seanan_mcguire

August 5 2011, 18:54:18 UTC 5 years ago

Yay!

yellowblackhaze

August 3 2011, 22:46:56 UTC 5 years ago

You could make a whole other list of things that should have been on there, but weren't. I was both surprised and delighted that Barry Hughart's Bridge of Birds was there. It has always been one of my top 10.

seanan_mcguire

August 5 2011, 18:54:25 UTC 5 years ago

Mine, too.

vincentursus

August 3 2011, 23:27:47 UTC 5 years ago

Picking just ten was more arduous than I expected, though I see from other comments I was not the only one to experience that.

seanan_mcguire

August 5 2011, 18:54:33 UTC 5 years ago

Not by a long shot.

celticdragonfly

August 3 2011, 23:58:47 UTC 5 years ago

Man, that was hard. I tried to pick books/series that I felt really changed how I saw the world for having read them. Whew.

seanan_mcguire

August 5 2011, 18:54:44 UTC 5 years ago

Exhausting but good.

sasquatch1313

August 4 2011, 02:21:21 UTC 5 years ago

I also needed 30 or 40 votes. As much as I love Feed and Deadline they couldn't(not just didn't but _couldn't_) make the top ten until I threw myself the little bone of, "Well... most of these I'm voting for the author is dead(and thus, at least in theory, won't care). The living need votes too." Therefore you and Spider Robinson became my votes for life. Even that was tough. David Weber, Elizabeth Moon, and Piers Anthony didn't make that cut just to name a few. Congrats on making the list( all of them! :) ) and here's hoping enough of the other voters out there feel the same. Huzzah!

seanan_mcguire

August 5 2011, 18:54:55 UTC 5 years ago

That makes total sense. Thank you!

avahgdu

August 4 2011, 05:48:56 UTC 5 years ago

I just voted for you and Mary Shelley at the same time. (and 8 others)

You just don't know the significance of getting to vote for my secret gf AND Ms Shelley at the same time!

I was born in 1967 and they were NOT prepared for a kid like me in the backwater, boondocks mountains I come from. I was reading by three years of age, and I devoured Frankenstein at the age of six. It's what made me grow up to be a writer.

phoenixrave

August 5 2011, 04:16:34 UTC 5 years ago

LOL. Thank you for sharing my geek moment! I did the equivalent of a thesis for my B.A. on the transformation from Gothic Romance to Gothic horror, using Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" and Matthew G. Lewis's "The Monk." Then, a few years later, on my first trip to London, there was an exhibit with pages from the original handwritten draft from Mary and locks of her hair! I dino-danced the day away.
So, today I too got to vote for the Dark Lady and Seanan! Yay!

My biggest disappointment was that Toby wasn't there. As a whole, I'd say that the Newsflesh books impress me as "Best of" candidates, but the Daye series grows by SUCH leaps and bounds! AAN is still my favorite, but LE slayed me in it's own way. OSS can't get here fast enough!!!

avahgdu

August 6 2011, 09:17:18 UTC 5 years ago

I lived in London in the 80's, I was a semi famous psychic there, and my favorite museum was called the London Dungeon. LOL Of course, the Tower of London was fun, too.

Not to sound like a brainiac, especially since the medications have seriously impacted my iq, but it was sometimes difficult growing up with a fascination for Dark Shadows, tarot cards, Wuthering Heights, and Mary Shelley. Attempting to explain to a third grade teacher that Frankenstein was an important book for women's rights history, as well as a study of what makes us human and how the 'creature' was never a monster...well, my Mom went to a lot of meetings.

'Rents were wealthy then and I spent a lot of time with special tutors and being separated from kids my age. it's no wonder I grew up to be a weirdo. ROFL

seanan_mcguire

August 5 2011, 18:55:04 UTC 5 years ago

Duuuuuuuuuude.

That is awesome.