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Daniel
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| Posted 2/4/2006 6:32 AM (GMT -5) |   | Bruce Boston sent along this note to me this morning:
For the first time, Locus is polling genre readers to name their favorite SF/F/H poems of last year and of all time. This poll is only available online.
https://secure.locusmag.com/2006/Issues/2006PoetryPoll.html
Thought some of you might like to click over and take a look at the ballot and "guide" list of all-time best SF poems.
Daniel
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C.Cevasco
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Date Joined Sep 2003
Total Posts : 973
| Posted 3/23/2006 2:30 PM (GMT -5) | | I was just browsing around over at Locus, and in addition to the poetry poll Daniel mentioned, there's the general Locus Online Poll & Survey that they run every year. I was surprised to see that the poll's drop-down lists of magazines, stories, editors, etc. seemed to overlook a whole bunch of publications and people. Of course, you're not limited to voting from the drop-down lists--write-in votes are allowed.
So I thought it might be a good idea for some of us to head over and fill out the poll here. If you feel any missing items deserve your vote, then add one or more write-in votes to any of the relevant categories. Even if it doesn't impact this year's polling outcome, perhaps it will result in a wider range of drop-down items in the future. The deadline for filling out the poll is April 15.
Oh, and I don't think you need to be a Locus subscriber in order to vote. You can just leave the subscriber number field blank. The only required information is a name and e-mail address.
Chris
Christopher M. Cevasco, Editor/Publisher
Paradox: The Magazine of Historical and Speculative Fiction
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erazmus
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| Posted 3/23/2006 2:59 PM (GMT -5) | | Chris,
Locus is a fine publication but they are not without their own, pronounced slant. They have bias and its very obviously reflected in the content of the magazine. I am not fully cognizant of all their quirks but one bias I am very aware of is that they have against publisher Jim Baen and his company. You will seldom see a review of a new book from him or read an interview with one of his authors. Often the only place books from Baen show up in the magazine is on the best sellers list.
Little things, like Baen's name not being highlighted in the new sales report, making it very hard to pick out, just seem to happen in a matter of course. I became aware of this when there was a total lack of reportage for Eric Flint's 1632 project, which includes novels co-written with David Weber and others, novels written by Flint alone, an anthology, an online magazine which also comes out in print (hard cover for volume 2 no less). It is an interesting and ground breaking approach to writing alternate history, it sells very well indeed (I get royalty checks still from the tiny story I had in the anthology)-- and they never mentioned it. Nor do they give much press to many other products from that company, often books that are on the NYT extended bestseller lists but never brought up much in the various reportage.
It was frustrating when I was hoping for a mention of my story, or my name, in a review and there wasn't any review. Jim will not comment but apparently it goes back a long way--to his days editing Galaxy.
With that in mind I was not surprised at the pop-up lists and the publications missing. Its tough if you are not part of the club. That said I wrote in a lot of authors and publications I found here on SFReader.com when I voted.
Mike
Michael D. Turner
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