Tabulated review threads sorted by average score

[Defcon]

One of my favourites of the early TNG novels. With the TNG post finale books covered by the end of 2014, 2015 will see more of the earlier TNG books. Same for DS9 and VOY once all Relaunch novels are on the list.

 

[Defcon]

Just a little heads-up: I've fallen behind so I have posted two threads today (S.C.E.: Fatal Error and TOS: Ishmael), will post another one on Wednesday or so and two next weekend to get back on track.

 

[Defcon]

I finally have caught up to the schedule with today's two threads, so next week we'll be back to one thread a week.

Upcoming schedule:

Week 31/2014: Titan: Sword of Damocles * Geoffrey Thorne

Week 32/2014: New Frontier: Into the Void * Peter David

Week 33/2014: TOS: In the Name of Honor * Dayton Ward

Week 34/2014: TNG: Before Dishonor * Peter David

Week 35/2014: DS9: Gateways: Demons of Air and Darkness * Keith R.A. DeCandido

Week 36/2014: VOY: The Farther Shore * Christie Golden

Week 37/2014: ENT: Daedalus' Children * Dave Stern

Week 38/2014: Stargazer: Gauntlet * Michael Jan Friedman

Week 39/2014: Titan: Over a Torrent Sea * Christopher L. Bennett

Week 40/2014: S.C.E.: Hard Crash * Christie Golden

Week 41/2014: TOS: My Enemy, My Ally * Diane Duane

Week 42/2014: TNG: Greater than the Sum * Christopher L. Bennett

Week 43/2014: DS9: Mission Gamma: Twilight * David R. George III

Week 44/2014: VOY: Spirit Walk - Old Wounds * Christie Golden

Week 45/2014: ENT: Rosetta * Dave Stern

Week 46/2014: Stargazer: Progenitor * Michael Jan Friedman

Week 47/2014: S.C.E.: Interphase, Book One * Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore

Week 48/2014: New Frontier: The Two-Front War * Peter David

Week 49/2014: TOS: The Romulan Way * Diane Duane & Peter Morwood

Week 50/2014: TNG: Losing the Peace * William Leisner

Week 51/2014: DS9: Mission Gamma - This Grey Spirit * Heather Jarman

Week 52/2014: VOY: Spirit Walk - Enemy of my Enemy * Christie Golden

Week 1/2015: ENT: The Good that Men do * Andy Mangels & Michael A. Martin

Week 2/2015: Stargazer: Three * Michael Jan Friedman

Week 3/2015: S.C.E.: Interphase, Book Two * Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore

Week 4/2015: New Frontier: End Game * Peter David

Week 5/2015: TOS: Rihannsu - Swordhunt * Diane Duane

Week 6/2015: TNG: Masks * John Vornholt

Week 7/2015: DS9: Mission Gamma, Book Three - Cathedral * Michael A. Martin & Andy Mangels

Week 8/2015: VOY: Full Circle * Kirsten Beyer

Week 9/2015: ENT: Kobayashi Maru * Michael A. Martin & Andy Mangels

Week 10/2015: Stargazer: Oblivion * Michael Jan Friedman

Week 11/2015: S.C.E.: Cold Fusion* Keith R.A. DeCandido

Week 12/2015: New Frontier: Martyr * Peter David

Week 13/2015: TOS: Rihannsu - Honor Blade * Diane Duane

Week 14/2015: TNG: Q-in-Law * Peter David

Week 15:/2015: DS9: Mission Gamma, Book Four - Lesser Evil * Robert Simpson



By the Way, we recently have broken the 100 novel barrier on the ranking list if I'm not mistaken. Still a long, loooong way to go, but were getting there.

P.S.: @Sho: How feasible/doable would it be to have separate tables for each series beside the "master list"?

 

[Sho]

P.S.: @Sho: How feasible/doable would it be to have separate tables for each series beside the "master list"?

Someone requested a filter system before so you could show/hide individual series from the table, how about that?

 

[Defcon]

P.S.: @Sho: How feasible/doable would it be to have separate tables for each series beside the "master list"?

Someone requested a filter system before so you could show/hide individual series from the table, how about that?

So basically like if you use the filtering system in Excel? Sounds fine to me. I asked because we slowly are approaching the phase were the whole list gets a bit unwieldy. So being able to look at individual series would be a nice bonus.

 

[Sho]

^ I was considering parsing out all the series titles and turning them into checkboxes, but actually just a search field that acts as a filter and a "(e.g. TNG, DS9, ...)" where those are clickable to quickly add them to the field might be better. Along with a way to link this as ?filter=pattern so filtered lists can be hotlinked on the forums.

 

[Defcon]

Sounds good.

 

[Defcon]

I feel this is a better place to discuss this:

^ AFAIK any user can edit any thread's tags at any time. From a code POV it'd mean searching for threads by a tag, and checking that already-collected threads didn't lose the tag. It's a little more complicated than the title version (which doesn't use the forum search engine, which is a bit more complex to interact with programmatically).

Yeah, any user can add tags if I'm not mistaken.

If it's not too complicated (or error prone) it might be a non-intrusive way to get books on the table if they meet the poll requirements (like the Rebels trilogy).

 

[Sho]

On the whole I think we should attempt this . But it might take me a bit before I get around to it, work is pretty crazy right now. Will report back when it's done.

 

[Defcon]

So until you're ready to work on it, should I go into the various threads and add review thread to the tags over time?

Anyway, updated review thread list (I'll drop the weeks, as I'm so unreliable to post them on schedule anyway):

1. VOY: The Farther Shore * Christie Golden
2. ENT: Daedalus' Children * Dave Stern
3. Stargazer: Gauntlet * Michael Jan Friedman
4. Titan: Over a Torrent Sea * Christopher L. Bennett
5. S.C.E.: Hard Crash * Christie Golden
6. TOS: My Enemy, My Ally * Diane Duane
7. TNG: Greater than the Sum * Christopher L. Bennett
8. DS9: Mission Gamma: Twilight * David R. George III
9. VOY: Spirit Walk - Old Wounds * Christie Golden
10. ENT: Rosetta * Dave Stern
11. Stargazer: Progenitor * Michael Jan Friedman
12. S.C.E.: Interphase, Book One * Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore
13. New Frontier: The Two-Front War * Peter David
14. TOS: The Romulan Way * Diane Duane & Peter Morwood
15. TNG: Losing the Peace * William Leisner
16. DS9: Mission Gamma - This Grey Spirit * Heather Jarman
17. VOY: Spirit Walk - Enemy of my Enemy * Christie Golden
18. ENT: The Good that Men do * Andy Mangels & Michael A. Martin
19. Stargazer: Three * Michael Jan Friedman
20. S.C.E.: Interphase, Book Two * Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore
21. New Frontier: End Game * Peter David
22. TOS: Rihannsu - Swordhunt * Diane Duane
23. TNG: Masks * John Vornholt
24. DS9: Mission Gamma, Book Three - Cathedral * Michael A. Martin & Andy Mangels
25. VOY: Full Circle * Kirsten Beyer
26. ENT: Kobayashi Maru * Michael A. Martin & Andy Mangels
27. Stargazer: Oblivion * Michael Jan Friedman
28. S.C.E.: Cold Fusion* Keith R.A. DeCandido
29. New Frontier: Martyr * Peter David
30. TOS: Rihannsu - Honor Blade * Diane Duane
31. TNG: Q-in-Law * Peter David
32. DS9: Mission Gamma, Book Four - Lesser Evil * Robert Simpson
33. VOY: Mosaic * Jeri Taylor
34. ENT: The Romulan War: Beneath the Raptor's Wing * Michael A. Martin
35. Stargazer: Enigma * Michael Jan Friedman
36. S.C.E.: Invincible, Book One * David Mack & Keith R.A. DeCandido
    
37. New Frontier: Fire on High * Peter David
38. TOS: Rihannsu - The Empty Chair * Diane Duane
39. TNG: Kahless * Michael Jan Friedman
40. DS9: Rising Son * S.D. Perry
41. VOY: Pathways * Jeri Taylor
42. ENT: Broken Bow * Diane Carey
43. Stargazer: Maker * Michael Jan Friedman
44. S.C.E.: Invincible, Book Two * David Mack & Keith R.A. DeCandido
45. New Frontier: Captain's Table: Once Burned * Peter David
46. TOS: Uhura's Song
47. TNG: The Best and the Brightest * Susan Wright
48. DS9: Unity * S.D. Perry
49. VOY: The Black Shore * Greg Cox
50. ENT: Shockwave * Paul Ruditis
51. Lost Era: The Sundered * Michael A. Martin & Andy Mangels
    
52. S.C.E.: The Riddled Post * Aaron Rosenberg
53. New Frontier: Double Helix - Double or Nothing * Peter David
54. TOS: How much for just the Planet? * John M. Ford
55. TNG: A Rock and a Hard Place * Peter David
56. DS9: Worlds of Deep Space Nine - Cardassia & Andor * Una McCormack & Heather Jarman
    
57. VOY: Captain's Table - Fire Ship * Diane Carey
58. ENT: The Expanse * J.M. Dillard
59. Lost Era: Serpents among the Ruins * David R. George III
60. S.C.E.: Gateways - Here there be Monsters * Keith R.A. DeCandido
61. New Frontier: The Quite Place * Peter David
62. TOS: The Entropy Effect * Vonda N. McIntyre
63. TNG: Ghost Ship * Diane Carey
64. DS9: Worlds of Deep Space Nine -Trill & Bajor * Andy Mangels, Michael A. Martin & J. Noah Kym
65. VOY: The Escape * Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch
66. New Earth: Wagon Train to the Stars * Diane Carey
67. Lost Era: The Art of the Impossible * Keith R.A. DeCandido
68. S.C.E.: Ambush * Dave Galanter and Greg Brodeur
69. New Frontier: Dark Allies * Peter David
    

 

[Sho]

So until you're ready to work on it, should I go into the various threads and add review thread to the tags over time?

Yep, that'd help. What do we want to use as tag? "reviewpoll"? "reviewpoll_v1"?

 

[Defcon]

Whatever works best for you.

 

[Sho]

Let's go with "reviewpoll_v1" then (submitting to the engineer's impulse to build versioning into things, you never know if we end up changing the poll format at some point after all ...). Just a bit worried that's too non-human and people end up editing them away.

 

[Defcon]

We'll see, I will begin to add the tag later today I think.

 

[Sho]

Thanks!

 

[Defcon]

Finished. Added it to all threads already in the ranking plus the three Rebels book.

I noticed that now the tag is by far the biggest in the tag cloud on the front page.

I'll PM T'Bonz and trampledamage, so that they know what is going on.

 

[Sho]

Hmm I kinda forgot the tags are in a global namespace. Maybe we should go with "bookreviewpoll_v1" or so ... other subforums could conceivably also do review polls, but differently.

 

[Defcon]

Somehow I doubt anyone will add the _v1 even if they use the tag reviewpoll for other review threads.

I would say we let it be for now.

 

[David Mack]

Correction to item #44 — should be Invincible, Book Two

 

[Defcon]

Edited. The pitfalls of copy and paste ...