Steampunk Book of the Year: Boneshaker by Cherie Priest

I am pleased to announce that Steampunk.com’s 2010 Book of the Year is Boneshaker by Cherie Priest.

There was no restriction on publication date, so Boneshaker was eligible to win despite being published in 2009. There was also no restriction on author’s having more than one book on the ballot and two books by Cherie Priest earned places on the final ballot. Over 200 ballots were received during the week-log voting period.

The final rankings were:

1. Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
2. Dreadnought by Cherie Priest
3. Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
4. Thomas Riley by Nick Valentino
5. The Morrow Stone by Ren Cummins

Congratulations to all of the nominees and thank you to everyone who participated in selecting the book of the year.

The Breakdown

As described in the earlier posts, the voting and counting system here is the same as used for the Hugo Awards. In this system, voters rank the nominees from most preferred to least preferred. Counting first looks at the most preferred choices. If one nominee has more than half the votes, it wins. If not, the nominee with the fewest votes is eliminated and those votes are distributed to the next most preferred valid choice. This repeats until one nominee has more than half the votes.

To figure second place, the same system is used, but the first place winner is eliminated as a valid choice. Third place also eliminates the second place winner, etc.

Here are the breakdowns for each round.

First Place

Boneshaker by Cherie Priest (winner)	57	57	73	86	118
Thomas Riley by Nick Valentino	59	59	59	62	72
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld	34	34	35	49
The Morrow Stone by Ren Cummins	34	34	34
Dreadnought by Cherie Priest	17	17
No Award	1

Second Place

Dreadnought by Cherie Priest	54	54	64	102
Thomas Riley by Nick Valentino	63	63	71	86
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld	47	47	61
The Morrow Stone by Ren Cummins	36	36
No Award	1

Third Place

Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld	80	80	104
Thomas Riley by Nick Valentino	70	70	85
The Morrow Stone by Ren Cummins	42	43
No Award	2

Fourth Place

Thomas Riley by Nick Valentino	105
The Morrow Stone by Ren Cummins	67
No Award	5

Fifth Place

The Morrow Stone by Ren Cummins	150
No Award	11