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Soon is relative. In interviews he's given for the recent Dresden books I think he said he's doing book 2 of Cinderspire next. I think he's finally started writing it at least. Maybe with Covid killing his book tours he'll finish faster.
Welcome Kristy.
@Melina, please fix your spoiler tags. It's like you copy pasted them from another spoiler post instead of using the html tags.
I'm a fan of Utz, but not crab. Usually I get their Sour Cream & Onion chips or Cheez balls.
I don't really want to confuse things with an extra poll. There are already 8 polls right now for round 1, and we'll have another 7 polls before we're done.
You're not wrong, but that's not going to stop me from making predictions each round. That's half the fun!
OK.. Turns out Tom did make the polls, but they weren't on the main page so they were buried several pages down.He's since made them on the main page so they should be easier to find now.
I've updated the links in my original post.
Go forth and vote!
OK.. Turns out Tom did make the polls, but they weren't on the main page so they were buried several pages down.He's since made them on the main page so they should be easier to find now.
I've updated the links in my original post.
Go forth and vote!
Trike wrote: "Bold prediction: it will come down to Rivers of London and The Eyes of the Dragon, with The House in the Cerulean Sea as the closest almost-ran."your finalists are the 2 I've read. lol. I will at least be voting for both in the opening round. Not sure if I'll still with both until the end though. It'll depend on the matchups.
As to my own predictions, I think The Priory of the Orange Tree will make a deep run as it was a popular pick on the S&L Discord for an alt pick this month already.
Rivers of London is making it's 3rd attempt (18, 20, 21) at winning it all. It took 3 tries before people took pity on me and voted Theft of Swords the winner in 2019.
This is the second appearance for The Blue Sword (17).
I think the other 14 are all making their first appearance, although some authors have had a different book in past years such as Martha Wells.
Mark wrote: "Which books do you already have?https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1..."
I own/have read 2 of the 16. None of the others are currently on my TBR list. I'm sure I'll end up adding a few once I read the descriptions before voting.
There are a couple others I was familiar with, but otherwise a lot of new stuff for me.
Round 1 is starting today (polls are not yet live at the time of this posting though): https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...I should probably also mention it was decided to do an all fantasy tournament this year since we've had so many Sci-Fi picks lately.
Unfortunately I didn't know this during nominations so I apologize to all of you who nominated a sci-fi book. If it makes anyone feel better, I nominated a sci-fi book too.
The Bracket is set!I had a bit of an issue finding the polls, but that's been sorted out and the links are now live.
Round 1 will be February 25th - March 2nd 11:59PM EST
Match 1:
(1) Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
vs.
(16) The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells
Vote Here
Match 2:
(8) Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
vs.
(9) The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King
Vote Here
Match 3:
(4) Rivers of London / Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch
vs.
(13) Enchanted by Alethea Kontis
Vote Here
Match 4:
(5) Green Rider by Kristen Britain
vs.
(12) The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
Vote Here
Match 5:
(2) The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear by Walter Moers
vs.
(15) The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry by C.M. Waggoner
Vote Here
Match 6:
(7) Kiki's Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono
vs.
(10) Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
Vote Here
Match 7:
(3) The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
vs.
(14) The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull
Vote Here
Match 8:
(6) The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
vs.
(11) Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees
Vote Here
Nominations are now closed.-----------Final Nominations----------------
The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear by Walter Moers - 5 (Jan, Arrika, Daniel, Esar, Rick)
Before Mars by Emma Newman - 4 (Silvana, Fredrik, Phil On The Hill, Louise)
Rivers of London/Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch - 4 (Iain, Tassie Dave, Marti, Mimi)
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune - 3 (elizabeth • paper ghosts, Kate, Vanessa)
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia - 3 (Cory, Ruth, John)
The Book of Koli by M.R. Carey - 2 (Stephen, Jen)
The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King - 2 (Melanie, Christos)
The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu - 2 (Roberator, David)
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon - 2 (Elizabeth, Meghan)
Green Rider by Kristen Britain - 2 (terpkristin, Misti)
Kiki's Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono - 2 (William, Minsta)
Rosewater by Tade Thompson - 2 (Priscilla, Leesa)
All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka - 2 (Mer, Alexander)
Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor - 2 (catriona (reads), Tina)
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini - 2 (Micah, Scott)
The Dazzle of Day by Molly Gloss - 2 (Seth, Joe Sherry)
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire - 2 (Julia, Eytan)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams - 2 (Papa MRF, Phil)
The Living by Anna Starobinets - 1 (Viola)
The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers - 1 (Dominik)
The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley - 1 (Adam)
The Stars Now Unclaimed by Drew Williams - 1 (Sara)
War of the Maps by Paul McAuley - 1 (Trike)
The Nameless Day by Sara Douglass - 1 (Mark)
Wine Dark Deep by R. Peter Keith - 1 (Tamahome)
Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis - 1 (TRP)
Bypass Gemini by Joseph R. Lallo - 1 (Kev)
The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky - 1 (Colin)
The Forever Watch by David B. Ramirez - 1 (Joanna)
Enchanted by Alethea Kontis - 1 (Joelle))
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny - 1 (Clyde)
The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull - 1 (Jenny (Reading Envy))
The Folding Knife by K.J. Parker - 1 (Joseph)
Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks - 1 (Interstella5555)
The Dwarves by Markus Heitz - 1 (Grimothni)
The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey - 1 (April)
The Initiate Brother by Sean Russell - 1 (Jeff)
The Warded Man / The Painted Man by Peter V. Brett - 1 (Jo)
Swordheart by T. Kingfisher - 1 (Beth)
The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez - 1 (Phillip)
The Green Ember by S.D. Smith - 1 (N.)
Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott - 1 (Judith)
The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry by C.M. Waggoner - 1 (Erik)
Bypass Gemini by Joseph R. Lallo - 1 (Oma)
The Dragon and the Unicorn by A.A. Attanasio - 1 (Judi Serrato)
The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells - 1 (Valerie)
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson - 1 (Paul)
A Matter of Oaths by Helen S. Wright - 1 (Qukatheg)
Terms of Enlistment by Marko Kloos - 1 (Kardo)
Red Sister by Mark Lawrence - 1 (Sky)
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn - 1 (Lucy)
Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees - 1 (Linguana)
A Spell for Chameleon by Piers Anthony - 1 (Joyce)
The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu - 1 (Andrew)
Wizard of the Pigeons by Megan Lindholm - 1 (John (Taloni))
Autonomous by Annalee Newitz - 1 (Steve)
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman - 1 (AndrewP)
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas - 1 (Jason)
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames - 1 (Sean)
The Crystal Shard by R.A. Salvatore - 1 (Mark)
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab - 1 (Sarah)
The Wandering Inn: Book 1 by Pirateaba - 1 (Mitch)
Old Soldiers by David Weber - 1 (Marc-ids)
A Cavern of Black Ice by J.V. Jones - 1 (Adam)
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North - 1 (Steve)
The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow - 1 (Bambi)
The Library of the Unwritten by A.J. Hackwith - 1 (Julie)
Do You Dream of Terra-Two? by Temi Oh - 1 (Genesee)
The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H.G. Parry - 1 (Ian (RebelGeek))
Polaris Rising by Jessie Mihalik - 1 (Sonya)
Joyce wrote: "I nominated this on the 14th but not sure if it was missed or you just haven't had a chance to update the list.I would like to nominate A Spell for Chameleon by [author:Piers Anthony..."
There haven't been enough nominations for me to do another roll-up. At this point I'll just do 1 final roll-up after 8pm tonight.
Yeah, I apparently managed to avoid that theory. Or read it and promptly forgot. I had to look things up after the episode because I was like "I suspect this is a big deal, but I don't know who that is".I only really read Spiderman and a bit of X-Men so pretty much all of the MCU has been new/surprising for me. I kind of prefer it that way.
I wasn't sure I wanted a 4th Bobbiverse book. I thought he left things in a good place with the 3rd, but I did enjoy Heaven's River once it got going (thought it was a bit of a slow start).Now I'm looking forward to the next one.
