Locus Recc's & Voting Opportunity

[ellenkushner]

My personal Press Agent without Portfolio, Cat Eldridge, has just sent me the gladsome tidings that The Privilege of the Sword has made the 2006 Locus Recommended Reading list as one of the Best Fantasy Novels of 2006 - in there with some very good company!

He also points out that all are invited to cast their vote online for the 37th annual Locus Awards for Best Fantasy Novel of 2006 and other things (such as Best Young Adult Novel, which unaccountably does not list Delia Sherman's Changeling on the ballot, or Best Short Story [novellette? I'll have to check the length] , missing "La Fée Verte" from the otherwise well-represented Salon Fantastique anthology - but there's plenty of room for write-ins).

I'm just saying.

I must add that the Locus Recc's tend to be brilliantly reliable: if you're not sure what good books/stories you might have missed this year, just go down their list and you won't be disappointed.

Comments

[suzanna-o.livejournal.com]

I have to admit I've only read a couple of the nominations! Yours is one of them, though. :)
I'll check out the recommendations!

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

I love voting. And surveys. And surveys with a great big box at the bottom for me to mouth off about What I'd Do If I Could Be An Editor Again. It's not safe to put a soapbox anywhere near me.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

already voted! And that reminds me, I gotta send it in to the Mythopoeic Society, too.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Nomination, I mean.

[yaoi-in-exile.livejournal.com]

Ahahahaaaaar. >3 Now to sign on about a billion times under assumed names to submit sneaky ballots.

I must tell my colleague Lauren, she's nutso for a couple nominated under young adult. :3

[pnh.livejournal.com]

I don't agree that the LOCUS list is "brilliantly reliable." In fact, I think that over the last few years, it's come to reflect a narrower and narrower range of reading taste.

I first noticed this when they didn't list John M. Ford's Heat of Fusion in their list of single-author story collections for that year. Since then, I've continued to be struck by what they unaccountably leave off.

Don't get me wrong; just about everything they recommend is worthwhile by some measure or another. But I think their little cadre of reviewers is way too tight.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Mmm...that may be a better way of putting it.