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2010 Book of the Year
Posted by jrrl on December 14, 2010.
Vote for 2010 Steampunk Book of the Year
It was a long week of nominating. Over 100 people participated and which books were in the lead changed a number of time. The nomination period ended last night and we have our final ballot.
The Short List
In random order, here are the books that received the most nominations:
Voting
The ballot counting procedure is explained on the nomination page. Basically, you rank the five books based on your preference for which should win. If your fist choice can’t win, it is eliminated and your second choice becomes your vote. If that can’t win, we move to your third choice. This repeats until one book has more than half the votes. If you do not rank all the books and all of your choices are eliminated, your ballot will basically not count. As a result of this, it behooves you to rank as many books as you can.
Voting runs from when this is posted until 11:59PM EDT December 21.
Please don’t try to vote twice. I really don’t want to have to wade through logs, IP addresses, cookies, etc. to try to eliminate cheaters. If I do think two (or more) votes are from the same person, I will only count the last one.
Also, note that the nominees (and ‘no book’) are randomized for each voter. This is to eliminate any first-candidate bias.
The ballot
The voting period has ended. Thank you for participating.
I think I screwed up my vote. For some reason I thought I had to put the books in order that I would want them. I really just wanted to put in a vote for “The Morrow Stone” Thanks
Spencer
Wait, where’s The Half-Made World?
It didn’t make the final ballot. Sorry.
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I really Really REALLY hope Thomas Riley wins!!!
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I would have taken The Half-Made World over Dreadnought, but to each his own, I suppose.
Maybe next time we should have a showdown for the shortlist, before the voting.
Well, there was a full week nomination period that was meant to act as that showdown. The five books with the most nominations made the final ballot.
I think I screwed up my vote. For some reason I thought I had to put the books in order that I would want them. I really just wanted to put in a vote for “The Morrow Stone” Thanks Spencer
I apologize for my poor instructions. I will try to make them clearer next year. If it makes you feel better, the break down would not have changed had you cast your vote as intended. Thank you for participating and I hope you’ll join in next year as well.