SciFi and Fantasy eBook Club discussion

Donna and I were chatting some time back about the volunteer nominations vs. open nominations and we thought we'd try open nominations and see how it works If we like it, then we have something else to mix it up with.... So, here we go. I put together a few rules so let's see how this works

1. We'll do a first vote of the top 10 or 12 nominated and seconded books followed by a second vote of the top 4 or 5.
2. One Nomination and Two Seconds per person (we'll see how this goes ...)
3. No books by authors selected within the past 12 months. The list is here: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...
4. Must be available as an ebook
5. No nominating your own book
6. Book must be fantasy but I'm open to reasonable challenges on books that may not belong ...

So, got it? Good. Let's see what comes out of this.

Nominated and Seconded
Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card
The Black Company by Glen Cook
Hard Magic by Larry Correia
The Curse of the Mistwraith by Janny Wurts
Lamentation by Ken Scholes
The Crystal Shard by R.A. Salvatore
Arrows of the Queen by Mercedes Lackey
Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly


Nominated
Morrigan's Harvest by Kaiya Hart
The Dark Griffin by K.J. Taylor
An Empire Unacquainted with Defeat by Glen Cook

I would like to nominate:

Morrigan's Harvest

I nominate Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card

I'll second Seventh Son even though I know a lot of people's hatred for Orson Scott Card.

The Dark Griffin by K.J. Taylor - nominating. It is one that veers into darker anti-hero stuff past the somewhat misleading free sample (first few pages of sample came close to being a Mutual of Omaha nature special on griffins).

I'll nominate Hard Magic by Larry Correia. Very fun book.

I'll nominate The Black Company by Glen Cook, since my brother has been telling me for years I should read it, but never seem to have gotten around to it.

I nominate Lamentation by Ken Scholes





I'll second The Black Company.

I'll second Hard Magic

I'd like to nominate The Curse of the Mistwraith by Janny Wurts.

I'll nominate The Crystal Shard by R.A. Salvatore since the series is finally out in ebook format, and audible is working on recording the series.

Hmmm. Guessed I missed a post some where. Is there a theme for the June fantasy read?

No theme. Instead of having a member nominate books for one of the selections, we're trying out something different and having open nominations for one and a theme for the other ....

I'll second The Curse of the Mistwraith.

I'll go ahead and second "Lamentation", since I know I'll still have another in my back pocket if something that really catches my interest comes along. (It looks like it might be good, but the reviews are kind of all over the place -- but what the heck, there's only one way to find out. :-) )

I'm breaking my own guidelines and making another nomination .... An Empire Unacquainted with Defeat by Glen Cook

Geoffrey wrote: "I'm breaking my own guidelines and making another nomination .... An Empire Unacquainted with Defeat by Glen Cook"
Hmmm...that will split the Glen Cook votes -- a clever ploy on your part? ;-)

I'm actually more dense than clever. I picked up 'Empire Unacquainted' yesterday and thought it would be fun to throw into the ring - and didn't even notice he already has a book on the list ... :)

Ill Second The Crystal Shard an old colleague told me to read it a while back and i never got round to it...

(PS. Hope i got this vote/seconding thing right... i'm new to the group)

I am going to nominate (once again) The Arrows of the Queen by Mercedes Lackey. The first of the Valdemar Series.

I'm nominating Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly. Absolutely gripping in the way it handles people, places, dragons and the nature of magic.

I'll second The Arrows of the Queen.

I'll second Hard Magic because I already own it and think it's due for a re-read :)

My second choice, if Hard Magic doesn't get enough votes, would be Dragonsbane.

OK. I'm calling it. This is a great list, boys and girls.