Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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  • Mood: hopeful
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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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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