THE DEEP ONES: Summer 2018 Discussion Schedule

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THE DEEP ONES: Summer 2018 Discussion Schedule

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1paradoxosalpha
Edited: Aug 28, 2018, 4:46 pm

4-Jul "Schalken the Painter" by J. Sheridan LeFanu (1851)
11-Jul "An Itinerant House" by Emma Frances Dawson (1878)
18-Jul "The New Mother" by Lucy Clifford (1882)
25-Jul "Old Pipes and the Dryad" by Frank R. Stockton (1885)
1-Aug "Dearth's Farm" by Gerald Bullett (1923)
8-Aug "The Shunned House" by H.P. Lovecraft (1928)
15-Aug "Witches' Hollow" by August Derleth and H.P. Lovecraft (1962)
22-Aug "The Death of Malygris" by Clark Ashton Smith (1934)
29-Aug "Et in Sempiternum Pereant" by Charles Williams (1935)
5-Sep "The Idol of the Flies" by Jane Rice (1942)
12-Sep "Houses Under the Sea" by Caitlin R. Kiernan (2006)
19-Sep "The Hill" by Tanith Lee (2007)
26-Sep "The Arcade" by Will Murray (2012)

Well, every nomination made the cut this time, by virtue of having more than zero net votes. Thanks much to the nominators.

We've got a few months to come up with a story for the last week of September, or maybe we'll take a breather then.

As many nominations as weeks, and none to spare.

2elenchus
Edited: Jun 20, 2018, 10:58 pm

Hmmn, don't recall this happening before: neither having fewer nominations than open slots, nor every nomination having net-positive votes.

With respect to the slate of stories, though, I'm pleased as there was none I voted "No" and only one I left as "Undecided" for reasons having to do with likely availability rather than interest.

ETA It would appear one nomination was missed: "Old Pipes and the Dryad" (post 17 in the planning thread)

3paradoxosalpha
Edited: Jun 20, 2018, 11:41 pm

Thanks for the catch, I've fixed the schedule. It's not rare for us to have nominees get net-negative votes, but it doesn't happen all the time. This is definitely the first time that the nominee list and the selection list were the same. I nominated fewer than usual, myself, and there were only four of us nominators. The usual dozen or so voters, though.

4AndreasJ
Jun 21, 2018, 12:37 am

Thanks, as ever, to paradoxosalpha for running the selection processes.

That's one big gap from 1942 to 2006. Actually, with the Le Fanu as a bit of an outlier, our selection falls into three rather compact clusters chronologically, 1878-1885, 1923-1942, and 2006-2012.

5AndreasJ
Jun 21, 2018, 12:42 am

Oh, and if three women on last quarter's list was a record, we've promptly broken it with five this time: Dawson, Clifford, Rice, Kiernan, and Lee.

(I believe, tangentially, that Dawson's first name should be Emma, not Emmar.)

6manuyadav
Jun 21, 2018, 12:45 am

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7semdetenebre
Edited: Jun 21, 2018, 8:45 am

Every entry a winner! I'm sure that's just a fluke. Excellent list with only three of recent vintage, plus 5 authors I've not read before.

8Crypto-Willobie
Jun 21, 2018, 8:56 am

Looks like we've got some spam at post #6. I've flagged the user already.

9semdetenebre
Jun 21, 2018, 9:19 am

10elenchus
Jun 21, 2018, 9:46 am

>8 Crypto-Willobie:

And the post, too (accessible from the More link).

11paradoxosalpha
Jun 21, 2018, 10:36 am

>7 semdetenebre: Every entry a winner! I'm sure that's just a fluke.

Well, I'll probably nominate some obscure and crazy stuff next time, just in case it's not.

;-)

12Zambaco
Jun 21, 2018, 11:17 am

Quite a few unfamiliar authors, which is great, and I'm looking forward to reading the Charles Williams.

13RandyStafford
Jun 21, 2018, 8:22 pm

Speaking for myself, I'm thinking a discussion of possible nominees for the next quarter might be handy. I know I frequently think of works and writers to nominate -- but don't write them down and then they've left my mind by nominating time.

14elenchus
Edited: Jun 25, 2018, 11:15 pm

That's happened to me, as well. I suppose largely that's poor organisation on my part: if I simply settled on a method for notating them where I could get them (the notebook in About Me comes to mind as I type), there'd be small problem.

I wonder if this thread would be a suitable place, though? Each quarter's schedule could house discussion of nomination ideas for the following quarter.

15AndreasJ
Jun 26, 2018, 12:49 am

I think I'd prefer a dedicated thread for discussion of nomination ideas.