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dugbug · 04-14-2008, 01:03 PM

Nice thread. I've been working on identifying quality SF, Fantasy books that are available for the Kindle. I base "quality" on the Hugo and Nebula awards, which most discussed here are recognized as such. I did this to A) find a good book in e-form for my kindle, and B) Get a sense of where the Kindle SF, Fantasy offerings are compared to print.

Here is the thread:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...870#post169870

The database has grown to 500+ books thus far (all hugo and nebula nominated books, including the "pre-hugos"), with maybe 25% available on the Kindle storefront. Ebooks aside though I had the data in my spreadsheet of these books and their awards so I wrote a quick macro to rank the authors by how many nominated or award winning books they have authored. The list is surprising:

(Most awarded authors, top 10 sorted most awarded first)
Lois McMaster Bujold
Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Silverberg
Gene Wolfe
Orson Scott Card
David Brin
Ursula K. Le Guin
Isaac Asimov
Joe Haldeman
Poul Anderson

Poul Anderson made the top-10 and I did not even count his Niven-Anderson co-authored books which won or were nominated to quite a few awards.

Here are the top 19 books (I thought I had pasted 20, but oh well). Books are ranked by the number of nominations (one point each), and the number of actual wins (an extra point per win). So if a book wins the hugo and was nominated for the nebula, it gets a "3". I then sort them, highest is on top:

(Most awarded books, top 19)
American Gods, Neil Gaiman
Doomsday Book, Connie Willis
Dreamsnake, Vonda McIntyre
Dune, Frank Herbert
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
Forever Peace, Joe Haldeman
Gateway, Frederik Pohl
Neuromancer, William Gibson
Paladin of Souls, Lois McMaster Bujold
Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke
Ringworld , Larry Niven
Speaker for the Dead, Orson Scott Card
Startide Rising, David Brin
The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
The Forever War, Joe Haldeman
The Fountains of Paradise, Arthur C. Clarke
The Gods Themselves, Isaac Asimov
The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert A. Heinlein

Note that of the 500+ books in the database, the top 20 most certainly won both awards I just lost that data when I posted in the original thread.
-d

04-14-2008, 01:03 PM	#27
dugbug Addict Posts: 206 Karma: 1723 Join Date: May 2006 Device: Kindle	Nice thread. I've been working on identifying quality SF, Fantasy books that are available for the Kindle. I base "quality" on the Hugo and Nebula awards, which most discussed here are recognized as such. I did this to A) find a good book in e-form for my kindle, and B) Get a sense of where the Kindle SF, Fantasy offerings are compared to print. Here is the thread: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...870#post169870 The database has grown to 500+ books thus far (all hugo and nebula nominated books, including the "pre-hugos"), with maybe 25% available on the Kindle storefront. Ebooks aside though I had the data in my spreadsheet of these books and their awards so I wrote a quick macro to rank the authors by how many nominated or award winning books they have authored. The list is surprising: (Most awarded authors, top 10 sorted most awarded first) Lois McMaster Bujold Robert A. Heinlein Robert Silverberg Gene Wolfe Orson Scott Card David Brin Ursula K. Le Guin Isaac Asimov Joe Haldeman Poul Anderson Poul Anderson made the top-10 and I did not even count his Niven-Anderson co-authored books which won or were nominated to quite a few awards. Here are the top 19 books (I thought I had pasted 20, but oh well). Books are ranked by the number of nominations (one point each), and the number of actual wins (an extra point per win). So if a book wins the hugo and was nominated for the nebula, it gets a "3". I then sort them, highest is on top: (Most awarded books, top 19) American Gods, Neil Gaiman Doomsday Book, Connie Willis Dreamsnake, Vonda McIntyre Dune, Frank Herbert Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card Forever Peace, Joe Haldeman Gateway, Frederik Pohl Neuromancer, William Gibson Paladin of Souls, Lois McMaster Bujold Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke Ringworld , Larry Niven Speaker for the Dead, Orson Scott Card Startide Rising, David Brin The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin The Forever War, Joe Haldeman The Fountains of Paradise, Arthur C. Clarke The Gods Themselves, Isaac Asimov The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert A. Heinlein Note that of the 500+ books in the database, the top 20 most certainly won both awards I just lost that data when I posted in the original thread. -d Last edited by dugbug; 04-14-2008 at 01:09 PM.