As was noted back at the start of the week, and by a good number of people casting their votes in the poll, the popularity of series in the sf field can make it hard to single out individual books. Moreover, many writers are prolific — if someone’s written one outstanding novel in a decade, they may have an advantage, in this sort of poll, over someone who’s written three. So here’s another way of looking at the data, counting up the top ten writers who were nominated for multiple books, ordered by total nominations received.
1. Gwyneth Jones
Not a surprise, given her three appearances this week. But two other books were also nominated: Castles Made of Sand, the follow-up to Bold as Love, and Siberia, one of Jones’ YA novels (published as by Ann Halam).
2. Justina Robson
Natural History did well, of course, but plenty of people also nominated Living Next-Door to the God of Love, Mappa Mundi and Keeping it Real.
3. Tricia Sullivan
As noted in this morning’s post, in addition to Maul, nominations were sent in for every other novel she’s published this decade — Double Vision, Sound Mind, and Lightborn.
4. Elizabeth Bear
The first writer to appear on this list who hasn’t appeared in the main top ten, Bear received nominations for Hammered (often as a proxy for the whole Jenny Casey trilogy), standalones Carnival and Undertow, for Dust, and for By the Mountain Bound.
5. Elizabeth Moon
In addition to Speed of Dark, Moon picked up nominations for Trading in Danger and Moving Target.
6. Jo Walton
Farthing‘s placement low in the top ten certainly doesn’t reflect the strength of support Walton received, with many nominations for the second Small Change novel, Ha’Penny, and for Lifelode.
7. Liz Williams
Like Bear, Williams hasn’t made it into the main top ten; but she achieves the distinction of having more novels nominated than any other writer, six in total:Ghost Sister, The Poison Master, Empire of Bones, Nine Layers of Sky, Banner of Souls, and Darkland.
8. Karen Traviss
In addition to the nominations for City of Pearl, Traviss picked up a few nods for her tie-in work — Gears of War novel Aspho Fields, and Star Wars novels Hard Contact, 501st, and Order 66.
9. Ursula K Le Guin
Lavinia accounted for the bulk of Le Guin’s nominations, but a few enthused about the Western Shore novels, in particular Gifts and Voices.
10. Connie Willis
And finally, Willis picked up nominations for both Blackout/All Clear, and for Passage — both not that far off the top ten.
Ranking calculated from 101 responses to a poll run during October, November and December 2010.
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Lifelode is totally fantasy! Fantasy, fantasy, fantasy! I repeat everything I said on the Lavinia thread about the uselessness of considering fantasy to be SF for the purposes of this conversation.
On the serial point, I realise there are good summative reviews around, but I wonder if this would make a good subject for the SFF book series, with chapters/essays on sequences which otherwise don’t always get the attention of the stand-alone novel.