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2010 Book of the Year
Posted by jrrl on December 27, 2010.
Complete List of 2010 Steampunk Book of the Year Nominees
As promised, here is a list of all of the steampunk books nominated for 2010 book of the year (with a few exceptions noted below), the winner of which was announced last week.
| # of Noms |
Title | Author | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | Thomas Riley | Nick Valentino | 2009 |
| 23 | Boneshaker | Cherie Priest | 2009 |
| 22 | Dreadnought | Cherie Priest | 2010 |
| 13 | Leviathan | Scott Westerfeld | 2009 |
| 9 | The Morrow Stone | Ren Cummins | 2009 |
| 8 | Behemoth | Scott Westerfeld | 2010 |
| 7 | The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack | Mark Hodder | 2010 |
| 6 | Avalon Revisited | O. M. Grey | 2010 |
| 6 | The Half-Made World | Felix Gilman | 2010 |
| 4 | Blameless | Gail Carriger | 2010 |
| 4 | The Bookman | Lavie Tidhar | 2010 |
| 4 | Clementine | Cherie Priest | 2010 |
| 4 | The Greyfriar | Clay Griffith & Susan Griffith | 2010 |
| 4 | The Iron Duke | Meljean Brook | 2010 |
| 3 | Johannes Cabal The Detective | Jonathan L. Howard | 2010 |
| 3 | Reaper’s Flight | Ren Cummins | 2010 |
| 3 | Soulless | Gail Carriger | 2009 |
| 3 | Steampunk | Editors: Ann and Jeff VanderMeer | 2008 |
| 2 | The Affinity Bridge | George Mann | 2009 |
| 2 | Changeless | Gail Carriger | 2010 |
| 2 | Cold Magic | Kate Elliott | 2010 |
| 2 | The Court of the Air | Stephen Hunt | 2009 |
| 2 | Pax Britannia: Gods of Manhattan | Al Ewing | 2010 |
| 1 | Wicked Gentlemen | Ginn Hale | 2007 |
| 1 | 20,000 Leagues under the Sea | Jules Verne | 1869 |
| 1 | The Amazing Screw-On Head and Other Curious Objects | Mike Mignola | 2010 |
| 1 | Anno Dracula | Kim Newman | 1992 |
| 1 | Aurorarama | Jean-Christophe Valtat | 2010 |
| 1 | The Buntline Special | Mike Resnick | 2010 |
| 1 | Chenda and the Airship Brofman | Emilie P. Bush | 2009 |
| 1 | The Convent of the Pure | Sara M. Harvey | 2009 |
| 1 | The Dark Deeps: The Hunchback Assignments 2 | Arthur Slade | 2010 |
| 1 | Ghosts of Manhattan | George Mann | 2010 |
| 1 | The Glass Books of the Dreameaters | Gordon Dahlquist | 2006 |
| 1 | Gods and Pawns | Kage Baker | 2008 |
| 1 | Haywired | Alex Keller | 2010 |
| 1 | Here There Be Monsters | Meljean Brook | 2010 |
| 1 | Horns of Ruin | Tim Akers | 2010 |
| 1 | The Hunchback Assignments | Arthur Slade | 2009 |
| 1 | Infernal Devices | K. W. Jeter | 1987 |
| 1 | The Kingdom Beyond the Waves | Stephen Hunt | 2008 |
| 1 | Knights of the Sea: A Grim Tale of Murder, Politics, and Spoon Addiction | Paul Marlowe | 2010 |
| 1 | The Labyrinth of the Dead | Sara M. Harvey | 2010 |
| 1 | Lady Windermere’s Brass Fantabulous | Not sure. | 2010 |
| 1 | Lamentation | Ken Scholes | 2009 |
| 1 | Larklight | Philip Reeve | 2006 |
| 1 | The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen | Alan Moore | 1999 |
| 1 | Leviathan Rising | Jonathan Green | 2008 |
| 1 | Merkabah Rider: Tales of a High Planes Drifter | Edward M. Erdelac | 2009 |
| 1 | Mortal Engines | Philip Reeve | 2001 |
| 1 | Northern Lights (aka The Golden Compass) | Philip Pullman | 1995 |
| 1 | The Other Log of Phileas Fogg | Philip Jose Farmer | 1973 |
| 1 | Pax Britannia: Blood Royal | Jonathan Green | 2010 |
| 1 | Pax Britannia: Dark Side | Jonathan Green | 2010 |
| 1 | Pax Britannia: The Ulysses Quicksilver Omnibus | Jonathan Green | 2010 |
| 1 | The Sonambulist | Jonathan Barnes | 2007 |
| 1 | Steampunk’d | Editors: Jean Rabe & Martin H. Greenberg | 2010 |
| 1 | Steampunk Prime: A Vintage Steampunk Reader | Editors: Mike Ashley & Paul di Filippo | 2010 |
| 1 | Steam Queen | Jack Hessey | 2010 |
| 1 | The Witches of Chiswick | Robert Rankin | 2003 |
Several nominees have been omitted for various reasons.
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (great book!) and Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson are not steampunk. In Bacigalupi’s case, the confusion is almost understandable for people who haven’t read the book. The title and the cover, which features zeppelins, would fit with a steampunk world. Meljean Brook’s “Here There Be Monsters” is a novella set in her “Iron Seas” steampunk world, but was only published in the collection Burning Up. A present-day political thriller was nominated as well, in what appears to be a misguided attempt at self-promotion on the author’s part.
Other notes. George Mann’s Ghosts of Manhattan is more Dieselpunk than steampunk, but I left it here anyway. One participant nominated Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan series as a whole, which I treated as nominations for each of the books in the series.
Publication Years
Some people have raised concerns about whether having no defined time range will lead to too many older books gumming up the works. As you can see from this breakdown, people favor recent works strongly, which the last three years accounting for 79% of the books nominated and over 94% of the nominations. On the other hand, we did have some much older works get nods, including Verne’s seminal work from 1869. Overall, however, I would say the system works, since more recent works are more salient to most readers.
| Year | % of Noms |
# of Noms |
% of Books |
# of Books |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 48.74% | 97 | 52.54% | 31 |
| 2009 | 42.21% | 84 | 20.34% | 12 |
| 2008 | 3.02% | 6 | 6.78% | 4 |
| 2007 | 1.01% | 2 | 3.39% | 2 |
| 2006 | 1.01% | 2 | 3.39% | 2 |
| 2003 | 0.50% | 1 | 1.69% | 1 |
| 2001 | 0.50% | 1 | 1.69% | 1 |
| 1999 | 0.50% | 1 | 1.69% | 1 |
| 1995 | 0.50% | 1 | 1.69% | 1 |
| 1992 | 0.50% | 1 | 1.69% | 1 |
| 1987 | 0.50% | 1 | 1.69% | 1 |
| 1973 | 0.50% | 1 | 1.69% | 1 |
| 1869 | 0.50% | 1 | 1.69% | 1 |
Author Breakdown
There were several dozen authors and editors represented, but the usual Zipf curve applied here as well. The top four authors &emdash; those whose books made the final ballot &emdash; together garnered more than half the nominations, about the same as the bottom half of the authors combined.
| Author | % of Noms |
# of Noms |
% of Books |
# of Books |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cherie Priest | 24.62% | 49 | 5.08% | 3 |
| Nick Valentino | 13.57% | 27 | 1.69% | 1 |
| Scott Westerfeld | 10.55% | 21 | 3.39% | 2 |
| Ren Cummins | 6.03% | 12 | 3.39% | 2 |
| Gail Carriger | 4.52% | 9 | 5.08% | 3 |
| Mark Hodder | 3.52% | 7 | 1.69% | 1 |
| Felix Gilman | 3.02% | 6 | 1.69% | 1 |
| O. M. Grey | 3.02% | 6 | 1.69% | 1 |
| Meljean Brook | 2.01% | 4 | 1.69% | 1 |
| Jonathan Green | 2.01% | 4 | 6.78% | 4 |
| Clay Griffith & Susan Griffith | 2.01% | 4 | 1.69% | 1 |
| Lavie Tidhar | 2.01% | 4 | 1.69% | 1 |
| Jonathan L. Howard | 1.51% | 3 | 1.69% | 1 |
| Stephen Hunt | 1.51% | 3 | 3.39% | 2 |
| George Mann | 1.51% | 3 | 3.39% | 2 |
| Editors: Ann and Jeff VanderMeer | 1.51% | 3 | 1.69% | 1 |
| Kate Elliott | 1.01% | 2 | 1.69% | 1 |
| Al Ewing | 1.01% | 2 | 1.69% | 1 |
| Sara M. Harvey | 1.01% | 2 | 3.39% | 2 |
| Philip Reeve | 1.01% | 2 | 3.39% | 2 |
| Arthur Slade | 1.01% | 2 | 3.39% | 2 |
| Tim Akers | 0.50% | 1 | 1.69% | 1 |
| Editors: Mike Ashley & Paul di Filippo | 0.50% | 1 | 1.69% | 1 |
| Kage Baker | 0.50% | 1 | 1.69% | 1 |
| Jonathan Barnes | 0.50% | 1 | 1.69% | 1 |
| Emilie P. Bush | 0.50% | 1 | 1.69% | 1 |
| Gordon Dahlquist | 0.50% | 1 | 1.69% | 1 |
| Edward M. Erdelac | 0.50% | 1 | 1.69% | 1 |
| Philip Jose Farmer | 0.50% | 1 | 1.69% | 1 |
| Ginn Hale | 0.50% | 1 | 1.69% | 1 |
| Jack Hessey | 0.50% | 1 | 1.69% | 1 |
| K. W. Jeter | 0.50% | 1 | 1.69% | 1 |
| Alex Keller | 0.50% | 1 | 1.69% | 1 |
| Paul Marlowe | 0.50% | 1 | 1.69% | 1 |
| Mike Mignola | 0.50% | 1 | 1.69% | 1 |
| Alan Moore | 0.50% | 1 | 1.69% | 1 |
| Kim Newman | 0.50% | 1 | 1.69% | 1 |
| Philip Pullman | 0.50% | 1 | 1.69% | 1 |
| Editors: Jean Rabe & Martin H. Greenberg | 0.50% | 1 | 1.69% | 1 |
| Robert Rankin | 0.50% | 1 | 1.69% | 1 |
| Mike Resnick | 0.50% | 1 | 1.69% | 1 |
| Ken Scholes | 0.50% | 1 | 1.69% | 1 |
| Jean-Christophe Valtat | 0.50% | 1 | 1.69% | 1 |
| Jules Verne | 0.50% | 1 | 1.69% | 1 |
| Not sure. | 0.50% | 1 | 1.69% | 1 |
