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Boo-yah again!  Took way longer than expected but we finally finished the Baen Reader's List of Recommended Military SF.  Check out the blog intro here.  Happy reading.

That's a good list but we've already got the balanced list from ISFDB and I'm not sure this is different enough from that.

Looking around that site I found this list:  ISFDB Top 100 Authors (Balanced List)   and I thought what if we had a WWEnd poll based on this list where members and visitors choose one book for each author on the list?  It would be like having 100 mini-polls where you'd have to vote for 1 book from each author's entire bibliography.  What one book best represents that author's work?

We could call it "100 Best Books by 100 Top Authors" or some such and display them in the same order as the ISFDB list.  It would be one hell of a great list judging by the names on there and a great way to find a book for an author you haven't tried yet.

What do you all think?  Worth the effort?  Would you cast your votes?

In case you missed it in the blog we've just added a new list!

Take a look and let us know what you think.  Surprised by any books on the list?  Any books that we've missed?

Well, I got one bite.  Thanks, Rhonda.  I think it would be fun and I think the result will be really unique.  It would take at least a few hundred voters to make it worthwhile though.

And now for something completely different...

@nate1234:  Thanks, glad you like it!  I mentioned this in the blog so I thought I'd put it here too:

We'll be adding links for connected series soon so you can get to all 3 of Donaldson's Thomas Covenant series that fall under different letters in the alphabet.  There are many series of series in the database so this will help you find the ones that go together so you won't end up starting in the middle trilogy.  I'll post here when that's been added.

I'm glad you're diggin' the site!  I've been thinking of the Sidewise award and it would be a nice addition.  I'll certainly add it to the list of awards we want to add.  I'm a bit embarrassed that we've only got 1 Turtledove book in our database!  I'll try to get some of his books added here shortly.  Thanks for the suggestion.

We've looked into adding this one before.  I wrote to EP to get a definitive list of the books after finding several conflicting lists around the web and they could not/would not provide such a list.  They told me "we don't keep track of the books we publish" and further admonished me in no uncertain terms that I should in no way claim to have the definitive list as if I was going to try and trade on their reputation.  To be honest, they were rather dickish in their response, when all I wanted was a reliable list, and I just said screw that and moved on to another list.

I thought it strange that they would not want to promote their own books at no cost and very little effort but I'm not surprised anymore.

If you guys like the list we'll get it added.  Especially if it's mostly books we've already got

You are most welcome!  You guys keep giving us great ideas we'll keep adding 'em.  The lists are one of my favorite features so I'm usually happy to jump on a new one.  It helps when we're most of the way there already.

Here's a new feature we think you're gonna like:  My Series

This is a list of all the SF/F/H series in our database that you have at least 1 book tagged in.  So if you've tagged a book as read, to read or currently reading and it's part of a series, the series will show in this list.  Of course, you have to be a member, you have to have tagged a book that's part of a series and you have to be logged in.

Use this list to find your incomplete series so you can finish them off.  It's great if you've lost track of where you stopped reading or perhaps you caught up to the author and had to wait a few years for the next book so you forgot to go back to it.  I know I found The Boy Who Would Live Forever which is book 5 of the Heechee Saga.  It came out 17 years after book 4 and I thought I had read them all.

You can also use this list to show off all the series you've read to your friends and talk them into joining WWEnd.  Just sayin'

Anyway, check it out and let us know what you think!

You asked for it, you got it.  Let us know what you think!

hihik - 2011-11-12 10:30 PM every time i come back to this site you've added something new and i, like a child, 'play' with it thanks so much for 'my series'!

Ha, ha!  You are so right!  Of course, you should never really leave this site in the first place

I really dig the My Series too though that page can take some time to load.  We're going to add some filtering to it eventually so you can select completed series, incomplete series and series that you haven't started but have tagged on your reading list.

We've also got a new list coming up in a few days for our YA Genre Fiction Month so stay tuned.

Science Fiction for Young Adults: A Recommended List by David Brin

More YA books than you can shake a stick at.

Sounds interesting!  I'll get these added - perhaps this weekend but no promises.