Guess the Books with Multiple Awards

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

Allan wrote: ".."

To Say Nothing of the Dog? or Bellwether?

[Stephen]

Iron Council? The Scar?

[Ed]

Cryptonomicon ?

[Ed]

The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, for sure.

[Allan]

Oleksandr wrote: "Allan wrote: ".."

To Say Nothing of the Dog? or Bellwether?"

Only one left it is Passage!

Stephen got The Scar correct! One of the 7-nominee books!

Ed is correct is assuming Neal Stephenson is one of the 3 lengthy book authors. The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is also correct! However, Cryptonomicon is not.

The 3rd lengthy book author is yet unidentified.

[Stephen]

I’m wondering if Kim Stanley Robinson is the lengthy book author. I don’t think any of his books is excessively long, but some of them are up there in number of pages. And he has won his share of awards.

[Allan]

Hope those of you who celebrate American Thanksgiving enjoyed the holiday & family time.

Looks like we're petering out on this game, and we're getting into the very difficult obscurities and one-offs, so let me recap.

The three lengthy book authors have all been identified:
Connie Willis with Passage (5) & Doomsday Book (6)
Neal Stephenson with The Diamond Age (6) & Anathem (5) (new answer given)
Kim Stanley Robinson with new answers Blue Mars (5) & 2312 (7)

The author in this selection with the most nominations is China Miéville with 4 books that have 30 nominations between them: Perdido Street Station, The City & the City, The Scar & Embassytown, the one missed.

That still leaves us with two 7-nomination books & five 6-nomination books. Only one author among these has even been mentioned & had a book identified. There are 21 5-nomination books remaining, but most of those I think will be difficult to identify. So maybe one more pass and I'll disclose them.

After those additions, here's where we are:

9 nominations - 1 of 1 identified
Ancillary Justice

8 noms - 5 of 5 identified
Mexican Gothic
American Gods
Perdido Street Station
The City & the City
The Drowning Girl

7 noms - 6 of 8 identified
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Neuromancer
Piranesi
The Scar
Embassytown
2312

6 noms - 7 of 12 identified
A Deepness in the Sky
Among Others
Doomsday Book
The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
Uprooted
The Sword of the Lictor

5 noms - the hardest group - 9 of 30 identified
Anathem
Beggars in Spain
Blue Mars
Passage
The Claw of the Conciliator
The Fifth Season
The Handmaid's Tale
The Shadow of the Torturer
The Yiddish Policemen's Union

[Stephen]

I’ll guess The Calculating Stars. The other one that comes to mind is Seveneves but I think that would appear on the list above with the other books by Stephenson.

[Kalin]

I agree the game is petering out. It was fun but I'm pretty much out of ideas. Here's my last post for guessing.

I'll guess 5 based on the hint that there are 5 books unidentified from 2019 and later (and that there is one remaining Jemisin book):

N.K. Jemisin - The City We Became
P. Djeli Clark - A Master of Djinn
Martha Wells - Network Effect
Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Gods of Jade and Shadow
Arkady Martine - A Memory Called Empire

And a few random guesses:

Paolo Bacigalupi - The Windup Girl
John Scalzi - Redshirts
Nnedi Okorafor - Who Fears Death

[Allan]

The Calculating Stars is correct! 5 nominations.

The City We Became (6), A Master of Djinn (5) & The Windup Girl (5) are all correct!

A Memory Called Empire & Gods of Jade and Shadow are both 4's and didn't make the list of 56. However, the former's sequel, A Desolation Called Peace is on the 5 list.

Redshirts was nominated for the Hugo & Locus SF and won both. Who Fears Death had 4 noms and won 1, the WFA.

So I'm taking 5 more correct guesses out of the last couple posts.

[Allan]

Final reckoning of this game. # means a close guess that I gave the answer to. *** means it was not guessed at all.

9 nominations - 1 of 1 correctly identified
Ancillary Justice

8 noms - 4 of 5 correctly identified
Mexican Gothic
American Gods
Perdido Street Station
The City & the City
The Drowning Girl #

7 noms - 4 of 8 correctly identified
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Neuromancer
Piranesi
The Scar
Embassytown #
2312 #
The Ten Thousand Doors of January ***
The Time Ships ***

6 noms - 6 of 12 correctly identified
Among Others
Doomsday Book
The City We Became
The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
Uprooted
The Sword of the Lictor #
A Deepness in the Sky #
Air ***
God's War ***
Learning the World: A Scientific Romance ***
Little, Big ***

5 noms - the hardest group - 8 of 30 correctly identified
A Master of Djinn
Beggars in Spain
The Calculating Stars
The Fifth Season
The Handmaid's Tale
The Shadow of the Torturer
The Windup Girl
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
A Desolation Called Peace #
Anathem #
Blue Mars #
Passage #
The Claw of the Conciliator #
Accelerando ***
Bone Dance ***
Brasyl ***
Brittle Innings ***
Declare ***
Glasshouse ***
Little Brother ***
On Wings of Song ***
Only Begotten Daughter ***
Rendezvous with Rama ***
Tea with the Black Dragon ***
The Dervish House ***
The Golem and the Jinni ***
The Many-Coloured Land ***
The Ocean at the End of the Lane ***
The Three-Body Problem ***
Towing Jehovah ***

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

Thanks, very interesting, I'd never guessed a few even if I've read them!

[Allan]

I feel like the group should've got Rendezvous with Rama, The Ten Thousand Doors of January and The Three-Body Problem, but beyond that, we'd have been guessing for months.

[Kateblue, 2nd star to the right and straight on til morning]

Allan wrote: "I feel like the group should've got Rendezvous with Rama, The Ten Thousand Doors of January and The Three-Body Problem, but beyond that, we'd have been..."

Agree, but I am surprised at some. Tea with the Black Dragon *** for example