1paradoxosalpha
This thread is for nominations and voting on stories for inclusion in the October-March reads in this group. Please feel free to draw on the ongoing brainstorming thread for nominations, but don't limit yourself to items discussed there. There is no further obligation--even to participate in the resulting discussion if a nomination is selected! It's perfectly okay to gamble on stories the nominator has never read, although also welcome for nominators to put up stories they've enjoyed and would like to revisit. In all these years, we've never been known to dog anyone for nominating a story where readers end up taking a dim view of it.
As in past rounds, any story that gets more "No" than "Yes" votes won't make the cut; otherwise they'll be prioritized according to net-yes-minus-no, and the final list will be in OPD sequence. Ties will be broken in favor of author and period variety. The top six stories will be arranged chronologically for the next six month's reading.
To propose a story for voting, place the title and author between HTML-style angle-bracket tags. The open tag says vote (in brackets); the close tag says /vote (ditto). Multiple polls need multiple posts. If you put the name of the author in double square brackets, it will make it a linked "touchstone" for the LT database, and first publication dates of nominated stories are appreciated. Also welcome are remarks about the story, the author, and your nomination motives, and/or a link to an online version. Here is an example (from a previous thread):
A useful resource for general bibliography info including OPD and inclusion in collections is ISFDB.
You can see a sortable list of all previous discussions here. The persistent brainstorming thread is here. Nominations repeating old discussions will be disqualified, but revival of dormant discussion threads is always welcome. "That is not dead which can eternal lie," etc.
VOTING is scheduled to END on the Fall Equinox: Monday, September 22. Voting for your own nominations is permissible and encouraged.
As in past rounds, any story that gets more "No" than "Yes" votes won't make the cut; otherwise they'll be prioritized according to net-yes-minus-no, and the final list will be in OPD sequence. Ties will be broken in favor of author and period variety. The top six stories will be arranged chronologically for the next six month's reading.
To propose a story for voting, place the title and author between HTML-style angle-bracket tags. The open tag says vote (in brackets); the close tag says /vote (ditto). Multiple polls need multiple posts. If you put the name of the author in double square brackets, it will make it a linked "touchstone" for the LT database, and first publication dates of nominated stories are appreciated. Also welcome are remarks about the story, the author, and your nomination motives, and/or a link to an online version. Here is an example (from a previous thread):
A useful resource for general bibliography info including OPD and inclusion in collections is ISFDB.
You can see a sortable list of all previous discussions here. The persistent brainstorming thread is here. Nominations repeating old discussions will be disqualified, but revival of dormant discussion threads is always welcome. "That is not dead which can eternal lie," etc.
VOTING is scheduled to END on the Fall Equinox: Monday, September 22. Voting for your own nominations is permissible and encouraged.
2AndreasJ
Vote: M.L. Humphries, "The Floor Above" (1923)
Current tally: Yes 9, No 0
3AndreasJ
Vote: Arthur C. Clarke, "The Shining Ones" (1964)
Current tally: Yes 8, No 0
4AndreasJ
Vote: Shirley Jackson, "The Summer People" (1951)
Current tally: Yes 9, No 0
5RandyStafford
Vote: : J. G. Ballard, "Zone of Terror" (1960)
Current tally: Yes 9, No 0, Undecided 1
Seems to be another tale of a therapist trying to determine how real his patient's odd claims are.
6gwendetenebre
I will get to this with some nominations before the fall equinox!
7paradoxosalpha
Vote: "Old Terrors" by Rosemary Jones (2025)
Current tally: Yes 3, No 1
Online at https://www.arkhamhorror.com/web-fiction/old-terrors/
8paradoxosalpha
Vote: "Three-Bladed Doom" by Robert E. Howard (first publication 1977)
Current tally: Yes 3, No 1
Later rewritten by L. Sprague de Camp as the Conan story "The Flame Knife."
9paradoxosalpha
Vote: "The Turret" by Richard A. Lupoff (1995)
Current tally: Yes 2, No 1
10paradoxosalpha
Voting ends tomorrow.
