D & J Books of the Year (BoTM Voting)

[Kirsty, Jedi Master]

Hi all,

I've created two polls for favourite Sci-fi and Fantasy BoTM 2014 (polls #3 & #4).

Results are hidden and will be announced at the end of the month!

Head over and cast your vote :) plus feel free to discuss in this thread or on the poll itself.

Happy 2015 everyone!!

[Paul, A wanderer in unknown realms]

Tough calls for both. Some great books there.☺

[Rinn, (Retired mod) Captain of the SSV Normandy]

Great idea Kirsty, will be wonderful to see the results :D I wonder if it will be fairly unanimous or a mix...

[Kirsty, Jedi Master]

Just a quick nudge that this is still up for voting on!

[Paul, A wanderer in unknown realms]

Interesting to see what comes up ☺

[Kirsty, Jedi Master]

Well:

So far every book has had at least one vote and there is a tie for sci-fi fave!

[Paul, A wanderer in unknown realms]

Interesting. I can barely remember the nominations

[Kirsty, Jedi Master]

*DRUM ROLLLLL*

Winners

Sci-Fi - A TIE Hyperion and The Martian

Fantasy - The Way of Kings

Results

Sci-fi

Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1) 17 votes
The Martian 17 votes
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1) 11 votes
Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1) 10 votes
Divergent (Divergent, #1)8 votes
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 6 votes
Leviathan Wakes (Expanse, #1) 5 votes
Cloud Atlas 5 votes
Brave New World 4 votes
Fortune's Pawn (Paradox, #1) 3 votes
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam Trilogy, #1) 3 votes
A Scanner Darkly 2 votes

Fantasy

The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1) 24 votes
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1) 16 votes
Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1) 13 votes
Perdido Street Station (Bas-Lag, #1) 8 votes
Neverwhere 6 votes
The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1) 6 votes
A Natural History of Dragons (Memoir by Lady Trent, #1) 5 votes
Promise of Blood (The Powder Mage, #1) 4 votes
The Red Knight (The Traitor Son Cycle, #1) 2 votes
Half a King (Shattered Sea, #1) 2 votes
The Six-Gun Tarot (Golgotha, #1) 2 votes
The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1) 2 votes

[Paul, A wanderer in unknown realms]

Thought the Martian would be up there all right ☺

[Ryan]

Wow. I have to read me some Sanderson. Which of those two would you lot recommend as the better starting point?

[Roger, Knight Radiant]

Start with the Mistborn series, it's good and it's finished.

[Rinn, (Retired mod) Captain of the SSV Normandy]

Yay, I'm so glad that Hyperion won sci-fi! :D Although I'm kind of surprised at Ancillary Justice coming 3rd, I really did not like that book...

Brandon Sanderson certainly stormed the Fantasy poll :) I voted for The Final Empire so glad to see it near the top.

[Ryan]

I got Ancillary Justice for Christmas, so it's on my to-read list for this year. Why didn't you like it?

[Rinn, (Retired mod) Captain of the SSV Normandy]

I just found it hard to get along with, the constantly changing gender was confusing and I just generally didn't like it :( Which is a shame...

[Roger, Knight Radiant]

Rinn wrote: "I just found it hard to get along with, the constantly changing gender was confusing and I just generally didn't like it :( Which is a shame..."

This was my experience as well.