Interzone Readers Poll

The new issue of Interzone includes the results of the readers poll, a list that pretty much agreed with my own assessment. Four of the top ten also feature in my list of 2008 favourite stories, and the other six were all ones I enjoyed too.

Congratulations to everyone who featured in the poll.

October Poll Result

In line with my own thinking, A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back were voted best Star Wars films in last month's poll. There was one vote from some heretic for 'They're all tripe'.

No poll this month as I haven't give sufficient thought to coming up with something deep and meaningful.

New Poll

My last poll on the Golden Age was obviouly a bit obscure and didn't attract many votes.

This month something that everyone should have an opinion on.

August Poll Results

I suspect my small sample is not statistically significant, but it’s interesting nonetheless.

Space Opera was the most popular type of SF, with 20 % of the votes.

Cyberpunk and science fantasy tied second with 12% each.

The only category to receive no votes was TV / Movie tie-ins. Is that really true, or are people just unwilling to admit it? I read all the Dr Who books by the time I was 12, and a few of the early Star Trek books, up to about no.12 of the original series. The only Star Wars book I read was Alan Dean Foster’s Splinter of the Mind’s Eye, which pre-dated the other spin-offs by several years. Oh, and the Han Solo books. Those were the days…

Poll of the Month

Not content with having added every imaginable widget to my blog, I've also decided to introdcue a monthly poll. Sometimes it will adress a deep and meaningful issue, other times something entirely trivial. I'll analyse the results and report back on this first poll at the begining of September.

More Poll Results

I discovered today that Last Man Standing, the picture by John D Stanton that accompanied The Last Adam finished 8th in the P&E readers poll.

It's a pretty good combination.

Poll Results

The results of the Preditors & Editors Readers' Poll have been anounced and The Last Adam finished in 11th place. I just missed out on a top ten award, but when you consider that just 90 stories were nominated out of the countless hundreds that are published each year, and that my story was voted 11th out of them, I'm pretty pleased.

I don't know who nominated The Last Adam in the first place, but a special thankyou to that person, and to all of the other people who voted for me.

Award Nomination

The Last Adam has been nominated for the Preditors & Editors annual Reader's Poll in the Best Short Story catagory. You can vote for me at the above link. The results are to be anounced in February.

Meanwhile the Spanish translation of The Last Adam will be appearing in February, and the print version of Static Movement, also containing The Last Adam is nearing completion and should appear soon.