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Here are the latest requests to be added to the database.  We got a little behind on these with the other books we added for the Nightmare Magazine Top 100 Horror Books list but this is not too shabby.

I'll add the latest requests to the list and post the update here shortly.

OK, here is the updated request list that we're working on.  I've added some email requests to the list as well.

Fritz Leiber:
 The Green Millenium (1953)
 A Spectre is Haunting Texas (1969)

Jack Vance:
 Galactic Effectuator

Shirley Jackson:
 Come Along With Me and Other Writings Including "The Lottery"
 Hangsaman
 The Bird's Nest
 The Magic of Shirley Jackson (collection)
 The Road Through the Wall
 The Sundial
 We Have Always Lived in the Castle

James Kahn:
 New World:
  World Enough, and Time (1980)
  Time's Dark Laughter (1982)
  Timefall (1987)

Katharine Kerr:
 Deverry:
  Daggerspell (1986)
  Darkspell (1987)
  The Bristling Wood (1989) (Dawnspell: The Bristling Wood)
  The Dragon Revenant (1990) (Dragonspell: The Southern Sea)

Orson Scott Card:
 Enchantment (1999)
 Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)
 The Worthing Series:
  Capitol (1978)
  Hot Sleep (1978)
  The Worthing Chronicle (1983)
  The Worthing Saga (1990)
 Empire Series:
  Empire (2006)
  Hidden Empire (2009)

Ryu Mitsuse:
 10 Billion Days
 100 Billion Nights

Michael Moorcock:
 Runestaff:
  The Jewel in the Skull
  The Mad God's Amulet
  The Sword of the Dawn
  The Runestaff (The Secret of the Runestaff)
  Count Brass
  The Champion of Garathorm
  The Quest for Tanelorn
 Oswald Bastable Trilogy:
  The Warlord of the Air (1971)
  The Land Leviathan (1974)
  The Steel Tsar (1981)
 Colonel Pyat Quartet:
  Byzantium Endures (1981)
  The Laughter of Carthage (1984)
  Jerusalem Commands (1992)
  The Vengeance of Rome (2006)

Larry Niven and Steven Barnes:
 Saturn's Race (2001)

Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner:
 Ringworld Prequel series:
  Fleet of Worlds (2007)
  Juggler of Worlds (2008)
  Destroyer of Worlds (2009)
  Betrayer of Worlds (2010)
  Fate of Worlds (2012)

Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle and Michael Flynn:
 Fallen Angels (1991)

Andre Norton:
 Solar Queen:
  Voodoo Planet
  Postmarked the Stars
  Redline the Stars
  Derelict for Trade
  A Mind for Trade

Sherri S. Tepper:
 Six Moon Dance (1998)
 Singer from the Sea (1999)
 A Plague of Angels (1993)
 Shadows End (1994)
 The Gate to Womens Country (1988)
 After Long Silence (1987)

Janny Wurts:
 Master of Whitestorm (1992)

Stanislaw Lem:
 The Futurological Congress

Kim Stanley Robinson:
 Icehenge
 Escape From Kathmandu
 The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson

Paolo Bacigalupi:
 Pump Six and Other Stories

Frank Herbert:
 The Green Brain
 The Santaroga Barrier
 The Eyes of Heisenberg
 The Heaven Makers
 The God Makers
 Soul Catcher
 The White Plague
 Direct Descent

Iain M. Banks:
 The Hydrogen Sonata

Dean Koontz:
 Seize the Night

Poul Anderson:
 The Corridors of Time

Matthew Stover:
 Acts of Caine:
 1. Heroes Die
 2. Blade of Tyshalle
 3. Caine Blackknife

Ian R. MacLeod:
 The Light Ages

Haruki Murakami:
 1Q84

Philip Jose Farmer:
 The Empire of the Nine
 Tarzan Alive
 Night of Light

Patricia A. McKillip:
 The Alphabet of Thorn
 In the Forest of the Serre
 Harrowing the Dragon

Ekaterina Sedia:
 The Alchemy of Stone
 The Secret History of Moscow
 Heart of Iron

Alastair Reynolds:
 Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days

Ian McDonald:
 The Ares Express

Paul Auster:
 Travels in the Scriptorium

Alan Dean Foster:
 Glory Lane
 Icerigger
 The Metrognome and Other Stories
 Quozl

Piers Anthony:
 Secret of Spring

James P. Blaylock:
 The Adventures of Langdon St. Ives
 Thirteen Phantasms and Other Stories
 The Ebb Tide
 The Affairs of Chalk Cliff

Angela Carter:
 The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

Fritz Leiber:
The Green Millenium
A Spectre is Haunting Texas

Jack Vance:
Galactic Effectuator

Shirley Jackson:
Come Along With Me and Other Writings Including "The Lottery"
Hangsaman
The Bird's Nest
The Magic of Shirley Jackson
The Road Through the Wall
The Sundial
We Have Always Lived in the Castle

@Risbom: I've added those books to the list and will get them in after the new year along with the others.

@Rhonda: Here ya go.  I like to get the GMRC ones in right away so you can tag them especially now we're getting to the bitter end.

Since you’re looking to add more women authors as part of the new challenge, here are a couple I’d like to include, but that don’t seem to be in the database:

Margaret St. Clair was a prolific genre writer from the mid-‘40s through the ‘70s. I came across her stories browsing issues of F&SF and Galaxy from the early ‘50s. The quality of the prose and the strange moody tone caught my attention. I might try The Best of Margaret St. Clair or the novel Agent of the Unknown (1956) for the challenge.

Francis Stevens (pseudonym of Gertrude Barrows) had a short but influential career in the pre-Gernsback pulps during the late 1910s and early ‘20s. The Citadel of Fear is one of Cawthorn and Moorcock’s 100 Best fantasy novels (and is the one I’d like to add for the challenge), and The Heads of Cerberus has been cited as possibly the first parallel/alternate world novel.

Also one of Cawthorn/Moorcock’s 100 Best is Black Magic (1909), by Marjorie Bowen, a picturesque medieval Gothic novel about a cross-dressing antichrist Pope (!), that I read a couple of months ago and could add a review of.

Could you add Deborah Harkness' A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night? I think that I might read the first book for the WoGF. 

 Thanks,

Rhonda 

That will help get you all started!  Now I'm off to drink in the new year.  Cheers!

 Yeah, I have to read that one! 

@controuble: Welcome to WWEnd and the WoGF Reading Challenge!  I'm glad you found us even if you've found us wanting

Yeah, the only downside to this challenge is that it pretty much shows up how many women authors we don't have in our database. ;(  But hey, that's part of why we're doing it in the first place.   We're committed to adding a minimum of 100 new women authors to our site this year and your list will certainly be in that number.  Some of those authors I don't recognize but Mercedes Lackey and C. E. Murphy are palm to the head obvious omissions that make me cringe for their absence.

Not the first time that has happened nor will it be the last.  (We somehow had bypassed Douglas Adams for years before someone pointed it out to us!)  We'll get around to all these as time permits but Lackey and Murphy I'll move to the top of the list after the books we have in train are added.  If there is an author you're going to read right now for January let me know and I'll get them in sooner so you can tag them.

Cheers!

The writing is on the wall.  I'm talking with the crew to see what we can do to speed up that project.  Some of the interface is already built but there is a bunch of coding to go still to make it functional.  Nothing like a pressing need to force a project through!

@controuble: We'll get Seanan McGuire updated.  Thanks for the info.  Could has sworn we had Blackout already in there....  The submit series info link is just an email link that should launch your default email.  Not sure why your Chrome would not like it.  I use Chrome and it pulls up my gmail just fine.  You can right click the link and "Copy email address" to paste into your email client to get around it.

@Tantara:  I fixed Valerie Martin's name.  Thanks for pointing it out!