August 4th, 2008
by
Naamenblog
So as I said the final round of voting for the Top Ten Obscure(?) Works starts today and the cut off for votes is 8/15/2008 at midnight.
I added the (?) to the title for this post only because there’s been a lot of disagreement with what the Top 24 works were and if they were truly obscure. Maybe it’s impossible to get a Top 10 of obscure works from a poll but I wanted to involve the community of readers in the selection process and not just decide what I think the top ten are and I’m not arrogant enough to think that I’ve read all good SF/F out there so I wanted community input.
I also just want to remind folks that the top 24 were nominated by readars and voted on by readers so because a lot of the commentary seemed to act like I should have removed certain works from the running or as if they were my choices.
Did I see books on the list that I thought were not obscure to me? Yes but I do think the majority of the books on the list are obscure to mainstream SF/F readers so that particular goal was accomplished. And also I did not want to pluck certain works out of the list because they weren’t obscure enough for me but then have others complain that they’d “never heard of so-and-so, so I was wrong the author/book was obscure”.
It all comes down to not being able to please everyone and I’m fine with that. You are under absolutely no pressure to vote in any way. If the shortlist or the final Top Ten offends you in some way or doesn’t seem obscure enough for you then I encourage you to make your own and I will definitely be interested to read it when it’s released.
Now in case you missed it: The Top 24 with Cover photos
And Finally: The Final Round of Voting.
In this round you can vote for a maximum of 5 works!
If you are so inclined feel free to spread this far and wide we want as many folks as possible from a diversity of backgrounds voting.
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Filed under Books & Literature, polls | Comments (2)
I won’t be voting – because I’ve read hardly any of them! I should read all 24, I guess, rather than heed the final vote, because the 14 rejects could be as good and more obscure than the others.
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