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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2011-08-11 02:29 pm

NPR Top 100 Science Fiction, Fantasy Books refreshingly Void-free

Just as I called it in June, "more sausages than Oktoberfest."



At quick glance says it's 13 15 women in the top 100. None in the top ten. In fact the first woman shows up at position 20 unless for some reason it's a bad idea to do this before coffee has sunk in and I missed one two.

[I am assuming Morgan's count is right and mine was wrong)

[identity profile] jamesenge.livejournal.com 2011-08-11 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not really a trilogy, just a novel that fills three volumes. But they seem to be counting series as single works (e.g. the Foundation trilogy).

[identity profile] chrysostom476.livejournal.com 2011-08-12 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
Tolkien was quite vigorous in his insistence that it was not a trilogy. And correctly so-he would have published it as a single volume, if he'd been able to find a publisher crazy enough to do it.

(Anonymous) 2011-08-12 07:38 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I _do_ have it published in single volume :-) Big one, with Alan Lee drawings...

[identity profile] chrysostom476.livejournal.com 2011-08-12 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Me too. That's not really comparable to what Tolkien was facing at the time, though.