FAN NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2010 AWARD

[drosdelnoch]

As an avid reader I tend to spend a lot of my time with my head stuck in a book, some have even joked at my collection calling it the Fantasy Aladdin’s Cave, and even gone so far as suggesting that I use it to create trenches to fight off the high brow literati for the honour of the genre. (Incidentally, if there is a Swedish Furniture chain that would like to come round, measure up, sort the shelving and install the lot for free, let me know. LOL)

Anyway, back onto point, lets just say that I read a hell of a lot and I thought that I would put my tuppence worth into the pot to kick this off. So books that I have spotted, and think may be nominated are (titles nominated by others are in brackets):

ABERCROMBIE, Joe – Best Served Cold
ABNETT, Dan – Triumff: Her Majesty’s Hero
(ABRAHAM, Daniel - The Price of Spring)
(BAKKER, R. Scott - The Judging Eye)
BARCLAY, James - Elves: Once walked with Gods Release Date Change
(CAMPBELL, Alan - God of Clocks)
CANAVAN, Trudi – The Magicians Apprentice
(CASHORE, Kristin - Fire)
CHADBOURN, Mark – Destroyer of Worlds
(DEAS, Stephen - The Adamantine Palace)
DURHAM, David Anthony – The Other Lands
(ELLIOTT, Kate - Traitor's Gate)
ERIKSON, Steven – Dust of Dreams
EVANS, Chris - The Light of Burning Shadows
(FARRELL, S.L. - A Magic of Nightfall)
FEIST, Raymond E – Rides a Dread Legion
(FOX, Daniel - Dragon in Chains)
(FRIEDMAN, C. S. - Wings of Wrath)
HEITZ, Markus – The Dwarves
HOBB, Robin – The Dragon Keeper
HOLDSTOCK, Robert – Avilion
(HUNT, Stephen - The Rise of the Iron Moon)
(JORDAN, Robert and SANDERSON, Brandon - The Gathering Storm)
(LAKE, Jay - Green)
LONG, Nathan – Shaman Slayer
LYNCH, Scott - The Republic of Thieves
MARTIN, Gail – Dark Lady’s Chosen
MAXEY, James – Dragon Seed
McINTOSH, Fiona – Tyrants Blood
McKENNA, Juliet – Blood in the Water
McNEILL, Graham – Empire (Time of Legends - Book two of the Sigmar Trilogy)
(MONETTE, Sarah - Corambis)
NEWTON, Mark Charan – Nights of Villjamur
(NOVIK, Naomi - In His Majesty's Service)
NICHOLLS, Stan - Orcs Bad Blood 2: Army of Shadows
PEVEL, Pierre - The Cardinal's Blades
(REDICK, Robert V.S. - The Rats and the Ruling Sea)
(REEVE, Philip - No Such Thing As Dragons)
(RUCKLEY, Brian - Fall of Thanes)
SALVATORE, RA - The Highwayman
(SANDERSON, Brandon - Warbreaker)
(SCHOLES, Ken - Lamentation)
(SPERRING, Kari - Living with Ghosts)
TCHAIKOVSKY, Adrian – Dragonfly Falling or Blood of the Mantis
WILLIAMS, Richard – Reiksguard
(WOODING, Chris - Retribution Falls)
(WRAIGHT, Chris - Dark Storm Gathering)
WRAIGHT, Chris – Iron Company

But who do you think will be nominated, get your thoughts in first and we'll see who's close when the publishers get their noms in.

[drosdelnoch]

helen said:

my other half is going nuts about joe abercrombie. hes been giggling his way through them i have banned him from reading them and pratchett in bed!!!

Hopefully he's been enjoying Joe's latest, Best Served Cold. I've done the same to my other half when I read books like Terry's in bed.

[Broken Serenity]

NOVIK, Naomi - In His Majesty's Service

Is technically a compendium of the first 3 books so not sure i'd nominate it since its technically 3 separate books and thus wouldnt be a fair vote...a damn good series though.

[wild_ice]

I really enjoyed Joe's Books, but didn;t find 'Best Served Cold' as brilliant as his previous books. I am alittle disappointed that Mark Chadbourn's 'Lord of Silence' isn't up there as i found found it absolutely riverting (sp?). A also really enjoyed a Magicians Apprentice by Trudi Canavan. Excellent stuff.

[Greyweather]

Lord of Silence may not be on the fan list, but it is an official longlist nominee for the Legend award.

[JOE CRAWFORD]

So is the Feist book, reads a lot like DARK MOON. When i finish, i will post a review.
joe

Greyweather said:

Lord of Silence may not be on the fan list, but it is an official longlist nominee for the Legend award.

[wild_ice]

Greyweather said:

Lord of Silence may not be on the fan list, but it is an official longlist nominee for the Legend award.

Where do I find the long list? I'm having problems navigating at the minute as my eyes won't stop watering so i can't see very much!!!