OT: Vote for the Unreality SF - Media Tie-In Story of the year

A Doctor Who story got my vote.

 

I intend to do nothing of the sort.

I intend to thoroughly bury it in the ground, salt the Earth, and nuke the site from orbit before next month.

 

Haven't voted yet but I'm narrowed it down to two and I've only read 4 of them.

It seems kind of weird to me to have this kind of award where people vote but you can see the results before you vote. Doesn't that encourage people who like to vote for the winner? Or thinking what i want to vote for isn't going to win so why bother?

 

The stats'll be hidden soon-ish. Probably tomorrow.

I wanted to drum up some general excitement and interest in the final vote by letting people see how it was unfolding, and then hide the results until voting closes so the winner is still a surprise.

That, and it costs a bit more to make the stats private, and I didn't get paid 'til today. Damn you, Bravenet.

 

"We've secretly replaced half of Dave Mack's votes with Folgers Crystals....."

 

I think a clear enough trend has emerged that the results are unlikely to be a surprise, unless there's a sudden surge of votes for the second-place contender.

 

You say that, but at the nominations stage the votes came in unpredictable surges. Wet Work, for example, had just a handful of nominations by the middle of the week, but then received loads in the last few days, whereas almost the opposite was true for A Gutted World. Could all still change.

 

I'm doing a reading of the story Saturday night at Lunacon at the Hot Chicks With Books reading. And I'll be promoting the vote all weekend.

So it's not outside the realms of possibility.

I mean being the only girl nominated, in a room full of Whovians, reading a story of hot chicks and battling babes, and an ending so controversial and surprising people have avoided reviewing the entire story for fear of giving away that ending, has got to have some advantage, right?

 

Hope it works for ya! BTW, I love the Hot Chicks With Books name.

 

Thanks. I wish I could take credit for it, but fellow author KT Pinto came up with it. We're a small group of female authors who've gathered to promote each others' work whenever we can. This is our first year, so we're still, you'll pardon the expression, working out the kinks. (And a few of us have more than others.....)

Our core group is me, KT, the ebullient and absolutely fabu Sara Harvey, and Genevieve Iseult Eldredge. This weekend's Lunacon will see the addition of the ever-talented and gorgeous Laura Anne Gilman to our ranks.

 

I loved the old GET SMART novels, and will even cop to having read a PARTRIDGE FAMILY novel long ago and far away . . . . .

 

Have you read the novelization to Smokey and the Bandit?

No?

Then you simply have not lived.

 

Hey, I edited the novelization of MORTAL KOMBAT: ANNIHILATION.

Don't tell me I haven't lived.

 

No, that's listed as a method of torture under the Geneva Convention.

I'm almost sure of it, Greg.

 

What about watching it? Does that count?

If it does, I'll recommend it to MI6

 

i actually enjoyed MK:A... okay, it's nowhere near as good as the first MK movie, but it's not bad considering it's based on a video game about people beating the crap out of each other...

 

Got me there. But I once skimmed through my cousin's copy of the Grease photonovel.

Hmm... a little googling reveals that Richard Elman wrote the Smokey and the Bandit novelization under a pseudonym, and that he also wrote the novelization of Taxi Driver. According to a book on books.google.com, Paul Schrader, the screenwriter of Taxi Driver, thought Elman had written some material good enough that he wished it could have been in the movie, and Elman, a literary writer and poet, decided he was proud enough of it to publish it under his own name. I may have to track that one down...

 

Interesting that readers don't have an option to comment on the reviews on that site.
I've read only one ("Kobayashi Maru"), and it was, well... It made me laugh.

 

If you had searched a bit beyond reading only one review (which is a bad idea anyway when trying to evaluate a site with multiple contributors ( FWIW I wrote the Kobayashi Maru review)) you would have found this, in case you have something to say about the site:


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Xeris, if you subjected yourself to it by choice, I don't think it can be listed as torture.