Kevin's Watch Book Club: Perpetual Nomination Thread

Post by **Shaun das Schaf** » Tue Apr 09, 2013 9:01 pm

deer of the dawn wrote:I plan to keep nominating Wool till you people cave.

And I plan to keep voting for it

Post by **ussusimiel** » Tue Apr 09, 2013 9:34 pm

And I'll keep voting for A Shadow in Summer

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Post by **Shaun das Schaf** » Tue Apr 09, 2013 9:57 pm

Actually, I wouldn't mind reading A Shadow In Summer.

More importantly, our avatars go nicely together don't you think?

Post by **aliantha** » Tue Apr 09, 2013 10:00 pm

Shaun das Schaf wrote:More importantly, our avatars go nicely together don't you think?

They do indeed! Both are quite verdant.

Post by **ussusimiel** » Tue Apr 09, 2013 10:03 pm

SdS, please take your ovine eyes off my dangling squash

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Post by **Shaun das Schaf** » Tue Apr 09, 2013 10:12 pm

Crap. I hope this doesn't lead to another AVO. I only just bought a new filling cabinet to store the others.

Post by **ussusimiel** » Tue Apr 09, 2013 10:28 pm

Shaun das Schaf wrote:Crap. I hope this doesn't lead to another AVO. I only just bought a new filling cabinet to store the others.

A Vegetable Violation Order (VVO)

Oh no! You have previous! I'm doomed to be floss fodder

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Post by **Savor Dam** » Tue Apr 09, 2013 10:35 pm

AVO...Another Voluptuous Ovine?

I notice that there are no fruits on those tomato vines you are shading in. Do I wonder where they went? Not really!

If you also gobble all of u's squash/melons, you will only become more voluptuous...probably enough so that you won't fit in that filing cabinet.

Post by **Shaun das Schaf** » Wed Apr 10, 2013 8:53 am

Actually SD, I just noticed I put the previous AVOs in a 'filling' cabinet, which I take to mean I can munch on as many melons, squashes and red-ripe tomatoes as I like. This is the look I'm going for...

Don't worry u, I'll be gentle. Thorough but gentle.

Post by **Frostheart Grueburn** » Wed Apr 10, 2013 9:17 am

I'm going to keep voting for the knitting manual as well; my budget doesn't allow any more distractions this month. One of the sad reasons for this is the fact that I cannot stop my itchy, bibliophilic fingers from grabbing other books, not even in Sweden a week ago.

However, I have progressed to the middle of the audio yarn. Excellent so far.

Post by **ussusimiel** » Wed Apr 10, 2013 12:34 pm

Shaun das Schaf wrote:Actually SD, I just noticed I put the previous AVOs in a 'filling' cabinet, which I take to mean I can munch on as many melons, squashes and red-ripe tomatoes as I like. This is the look I'm going for...

Don't worry u, I'll be gentle. Thorough but gentle.

This too much! I am going to complain to the mods about the ovine/Cucurbita stop-motion sado-porn! This is meant to be a child-friendly forum, so it should also be a squidgy-friendly and a lamb-friendly one

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Post by **I'm Murrin** » Mon Apr 22, 2013 7:09 am

Nominations are now closed for May.

Post by **Frostheart Grueburn** » Thu Apr 25, 2013 1:51 pm

Well. Haven't read this yet and as a natural consequence possess no idea of the contents, but it's from the keyboard of a fellow countryman.

The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi

Blurb from Amazon:

Jean le Flambeur gets up in the morning and has to kill himself before his other self can kill him first. Just another day in the Dilemma Prison. Rescued by the mysterious Mieli and her flirtatious spacecraft, Jean is taken to the Oubliette, the Moving City of Mars, where time is a currency, memories are treasures, and a moon-turned-singularity lights the night. Meanwhile, investigator Isidore Beautrelet, called in to investigate the murder of a chocolatier, finds himself on the trail of an arch-criminal, a man named le Flambeur....

Indeed, in his many lives, the entity called Jean le Flambeur has been a thief, a confidence artist, a posthuman mind-burgler, and more. His origins are shrouded in mystery, but his deeds are known throughout the Heterarchy, from breaking into the vast Zeusbrains of the Inner System to stealing rare Earth antiques from the aristocrats of Mars. In his last exploit, he managed the supreme feat of hiding the truth about himself from the one person in the solar system hardest to hide from: himself. Now he has the chance to regain himself in all his power—in exchange for finishing the one heist he never quite managed.

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 9:45 am

June 2013 Nomination Period

Automatic Nominations

Works that received votes in the last poll:

- A Shadow in Summer - Daniel Abraham

Backup Nominations

Works that did not receive votes, which will be included if the ballot is not full:

- Who Fears Death - Nnedi Okorafor

Past (Unsuccessful) Nominees

Works that received no votes in 3 consecutive polls:

- Beyond the Event Horizon - Scott Curtis
- The Magic Engineer - L E Modesitt Jr

There is nothing to stop an unsuccessful work from being re-nominated.

The poll for June 2013's book club read will open on Monday the 20th of May, and the selection will be declared on Monday the 27th May.

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 10:13 am

I'll just note here that I am including the nomination for The Quantum Thief that Frostheart gave above.

I should probably also have stated earlier that The Green House was not included for May as it didn't seem to fit the SF/F theme of this forum.

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Mon May 20, 2013 7:08 am

To widen the ballot a little, here's another nomination:

The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson

The best-known of Shirley Jackson's novels, and the inspiration for writers such as Neil Gaiman and Stephen King, The Haunting of Hill House is an immaculate examination of how fear can make us our own worst enemy.

Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of psychic phenomena; Theodora, his lovely and light-hearted assistant; Luke, the adventurous future inheritor of the estate; and Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman with a dark past. As they begin to cope with chilling, horrifying occurrences beyond their control or understanding, they cannot possibly know what lies ahead. For Hill House is gathering its powers - and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Thu May 30, 2013 10:50 am

July 2013 Nomination Period

Automatic Nominations

Works that received votes in the last poll:

- Who Fears Death - Nnedi Okorafor
- The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson

Backup Nominations

Works that did not receive votes, which will be included if the ballot is not full:

- The Quantum Thief - Hannu Rajaniemi

Past (Unsuccessful) Nominees

Works that received no votes in 3 consecutive polls:

- Beyond the Event Horizon - Scott Curtis
- The Magic Engineer - L E Modesitt Jr

There is nothing to stop an unsuccessful work from being re-nominated.

The poll for July 2013's book club read will open on Monday the 17th of June, and the selection will be declared on Monday the 24th June.

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Thu May 30, 2013 10:53 am

Not doing well at remembering to do all this stuff on time this month, am I?

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Sat Jun 29, 2013 8:48 am

August 2013 Nomination Period

Automatic Nominations

Works that received votes in the last poll:

- Who Fears Death - Nnedi Okorafor

Backup Nominations

Works that did not receive votes, which will be included if the ballot is not full:

- The Quantum Thief - Hannu Rajaniemi

Past (Unsuccessful) Nominees

Works that received no votes in 3 consecutive polls:

- Beyond the Event Horizon - Scott Curtis
- The Magic Engineer - L E Modesitt Jr

There is nothing to stop an unsuccessful work from being re-nominated.

The poll for August 2013's book club read will open on Monday the 22nd of July, and the selection will be declared on Monday the 29th July.

Post by **ussusimiel** » Sat Jul 06, 2013 5:03 pm

I nominate Adiamante by L.E. Modesitt.

After gaining amazing power over genetics and technology, three sects of humanity have developed and split, after a civil war on earth forced them apart. Now, far into the future, the deported sect has returned to force their rule on the remaining citizens of earth.

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