OT: Unreality SF Story of the Year Poll 2009/2010

[Defcon]

The Unreality-SF.net Story of the Year Poll

YEAR TWO: 2009-2010


Unreality-SF.net's second birthday is fast approaching, and just like last year, we're marking the occasion with a poll to choose the best TV tie-in story of the last 12 months.

From today (Monday 1st March) until the weekend (Sunday 7th March), you can nominate your favourite stories. (The ten which receive the most nominations will form the final shortlist, and voting for the winner will then open on Monday 8th March.)

RULES:

1. You can nominate up to three prose, audio, or comic stories based on or related to a TV series. No bloody Dan Brown.
2. You can vote for individual stories only, not whole anthologies or series comprising a number of stories.
3. The stories must have been released between the beginning of March 2009 and the end of February 2010.
4. They also have to be new releases, not reprints of things that were available in another form before that period.
5. Non-fiction's fine as long as it tells a story, so making-ofs and autobiographies are eligible but encyclopedias are not.
6. Nominate once only. The form will keep an eye on IPs, and multiple votes will not counted (and will make us MAD).

If you have specific questions, get in touch, and we'll try to respond as soon as possible.

You can nominate your favorites here.

EDIT, 01/03/10: We've been asked about reprints which feature significant alterations to the original material, like the expanded Sorrows of Empire and The Writer's Tale: The Final Chapter. We're deciding that these are eligible because of the amount of new content. Yay for arbitrary decisions!

 

[danjamesb]

Beat me to it!

Worth mentioning that last year, David Mack's Gods of Night won, and there were two other Star Trek tales in the top ten. If you want to see Trek lit make it to the shortlist this year, get nominating now!

(Alternatively, if you think Trek lit is too insular and has caused the decline of Star Trek and prevented us from having world peace by Christmas, nominate other stuff instead. It's all good.)

 

[Thrawn]

Just nominated Never-Ending Sacrifice, Precipice, and Losing The Peace.

Cool.

 

[Stevil2001]

To be fair, I split my nominations between my three tie-in lines of choice:
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Never-Ending Sacrifice by Una McCormack
- Star Wars: 501st: An Imperial Commando Novel by Karen Traviss
- Doctor Who: The New Eighth Doctor Adventures: The Scapegoat by Pat Mills

 

[Defcon]

A little edit to the rules (I've also edited into the OP):

We've been asked about reprints which feature significant alterations to the original material, like the expanded Sorrows of Empire and The Writer's Tale: The Final Chapter. We're deciding that these are eligible because of the amount of new content. Yay for arbitrary decisions!

 

[Valin]

- Star Wars: 501st: An Imperial Commando Novel by Karen Traviss
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I enjoyed that SW book. First Commando novel I read.

 

[KRAD]

Remember, that most of the Farscape comics are eligible.

 

[Stevil2001]

- Star Wars: 501st: An Imperial Commando Novel by Karen Traviss
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I enjoyed that SW book. First Commando novel I read.

My reactions to the Commando novels have been mixed, but this one was fantastic. It was kind of a weak year for Star Wars novels, though, or at least it was for me, since I'm skipping Fate of the Jedi.

 

[Thrawn]

Yeah. Fate of the Jedi is not at all exciting to me.

I'm still behind on Commando, and I still want to read Luke Skywalker & the Shadows of Mindor and maybe Death Troopers. But the SW line is a lot less exciting than it was during NJO, in my opinion.

 

[Stevil2001]

The Shadows of Mindor was fantastic-- best Star Wars novel since... well, probably Shatterpoint. Had I remembered to do USF noms last year, it would have garnered one from me.

Where good Star Wars is at these days is the comics, but since I read them in trade paperback, I haven't really read anything eligible for the 2009-10 voting period.

 

[JD]

Hmm, sounds like I might need to pick up LS&TSM after all. I've been debating it, but since most of what I've heard about the last few years worth of SW books has been pretty bad, I wasn't sure if it was worth reading.

 

[Thrawn]

I've read everything else that Stover has written, and loved every book. Dude is intense. But I've also been annoyed at SW books lately, so I haven't gotten around to Mindor yet.

 

[JD]

I just voted for The Never-Ending Sacrifice, Precipice, and Synthesis. This was a tough one for me, I really wanted to include Losing the Peace, and The Sorrows of Empire. I stared at the screen for almost 5 minutes before narrowing it down to those three.

 

[Defcon]

The nomination phase is ending at Midnight GMT, so you have a bit over 3 1/2 hours left to nominate your three favorite stories.

 

[danjamesb]

The final shortlist has been posted.

As well as three Trek novels (Vanguard: Precipice, DS9: The Never-Ending Sacrifice, and TNG: Losing the Peace) there are two non-Trek stories by KRAD on the list (Farscape: D'Argo's Lament and Supernatural: Heart of the Dragon) along with lots of other brilliant things.

You can view the list and choose your one favourite for the next seven days.

 

[David Mack]

My thanks to any and all who nominated Star Trek Vanguard: Precipice. Color me flattered, with a touch of grateful.

 

[William Leisner]

Thank you, thank you all who placed LtP on this list. Despite the cliche, I am deeply honored to be nominated.

 

[KRAD]

Yowza. Nice to see the double nomination. Thanks to them that so did!

 

[Una McCormack]

Thank you to those who nominated The Never-Ending Sacrifice!

 

[Deranged Nasat]

Okay, I just voted. For "The Never-Ending Sacrifice".