THE DEEP ONES: Summer 2021 Planning Thread
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1paradoxosalpha
This thread is for nominations and voting on stories for inclusion in the July-September reads in this group. Please feel free to draw on the ongoing brainstorming thread for nominations, but don't limit yourself to items discussed there. There is no further obligation--even to participate in the resulting discussion if a nomination is selected! It's perfectly okay to gamble on stories the nominator has never read, although also welcome for nominators to put up stories they've enjoyed and would like to revisit. In all these years, we've never been known to dog anyone for nominating a story where readers end up taking a dim view of it.
As in past rounds, any story that gets more "No" than "Yes" votes won't make the cut; otherwise they'll be prioritized according to net-yes-minus-no, and the final list will be in OPD sequence. Ties will be broken in favor of author and period variety.
To propose a story for voting, place the title and author between HTML-style angle-bracket tags. The open tag says vote (in brackets); the close tag says /vote (ditto). Multiple polls need multiple posts. If you put the name of the author in double square brackets, it will make it a linked "touchstone" for the LT database, and first publication dates of nominated stories are appreciated. Also welcome are remarks about the story, the author, and your nomination motives, and/or a link to an online version.
A useful resource for general bibliography info including OPD and inclusion in collections is ISFDB.
You can see a sortable list of all previous discussions here. A persistent brainstorming thread is here. Nominations repeating old discussions will be disqualified, but revival of dormant discussion threads is always welcome. "That is not dead which can eternal lie," etc.
VOTING is scheduled to END on the Summer Solstice: Sunday, June 20.
As in past rounds, any story that gets more "No" than "Yes" votes won't make the cut; otherwise they'll be prioritized according to net-yes-minus-no, and the final list will be in OPD sequence. Ties will be broken in favor of author and period variety.
To propose a story for voting, place the title and author between HTML-style angle-bracket tags. The open tag says vote (in brackets); the close tag says /vote (ditto). Multiple polls need multiple posts. If you put the name of the author in double square brackets, it will make it a linked "touchstone" for the LT database, and first publication dates of nominated stories are appreciated. Also welcome are remarks about the story, the author, and your nomination motives, and/or a link to an online version.
A useful resource for general bibliography info including OPD and inclusion in collections is ISFDB.
You can see a sortable list of all previous discussions here. A persistent brainstorming thread is here. Nominations repeating old discussions will be disqualified, but revival of dormant discussion threads is always welcome. "That is not dead which can eternal lie," etc.
VOTING is scheduled to END on the Summer Solstice: Sunday, June 20.
2RandyStafford
Vota: "With and Without Buttons", Mary Butts (1938)
Recuento actual: Sí 9, No 1
3AndreasJ
Vota: Tanith Lee, "The Gorgon" (1982)
Recuento actual: Sí 7, No 1
4elenchus
I'm wearying of thinking this and imagine it's tedious to keep hearing it, but How? How can it be time to plan the Summer reading list? Didn't we just start the Spring List?!
/rant
/rant
5RandyStafford
Vota: "Out of the Storm", William Hope Hodgson. (1909).
Recuento actual: Sí 7, No 0
Available in many places and free here: https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Out_of_the_Storm.
6RandyStafford
Vota: "Richmond, Late September, 1849", Fritz Leiber. (1969)
Recuento actual: Sí 7, No 1, Sin decidir 1
This is another one I'm curious about the group's take.
Available in three Leiber collections as well as its original magazine publication.
7AndreasJ
Vota: Michael Moorcock, "Lost Sorceress of the Silent Citadel" (2002)
Recuento actual: Sí 8, No 0
(It's been published both with and without a leading "The" in the title; the form without is original acc'd isfdb.)
8elenchus
Vota: "Origin Story", T. Kingfisher (2018)
Recuento actual: Sí 7, No 1
T. Kingfisher is a pseudonym of Ursula Vernon, evidently used to distinguish from other work intended for children.
Available online here:
https://apex-magazine.com/origin-story/
9AndreasJ
Seems like the touchstones were lost in my previous posts. Out of a sense of completeness: Tanith Lee, Michael Moorcock
Time for another CAS?An early, eerie story, online here. Quite short.
Time for another CAS?
Vota: Clark Ashton Smith, "A Night in Malnéant" (1933)
Recuento actual: Sí 9, No 0
10AndreasJ
Vota: David Drake & Karl Edward Wagner, "Killer" (1985)
Recuento actual: Sí 4, No 3
11paradoxosalpha
Vota: "Children of the Kingdom" by T. E. D. Klein (1980)
Recuento actual: Sí 8, No 1
12paradoxosalpha
Vota: "The Winter Wraith" by Jeffrey Ford (2015)
Recuento actual: Sí 7, No 2
13AndreasJ
Vota: Karin Tidbeck, "Rebecka" (2012)
Recuento actual: Sí 7, No 1
14semdetenebre
Vota: "The Brood of Bubastis" by Robert Bloch (1937)
Recuento actual: Sí 7, No 0
15semdetenebre
Vota: "The Wedding-Knell" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1836)
Recuento actual: Sí 8, No 0
http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/WeddingKnell.html
16semdetenebre
Vota: "Replacements" by Lisa Tuttle (1992)
Recuento actual: Sí 8, No 1
https://weirdfictionreview.com/2012/05/replacements-by-lisa-tuttle/
17AndreasJ
Vota: Neil Gaiman, "Feeders and Eaters" (2002)
Recuento actual: Sí 8, No 1
18AndreasJ
Speaking of the VanderMeers, for all the stories from The Weird we've done, we never seem to have done any story by them themselves. Included in The Weird is:
Vota: Jeff VanderMeer, "The Cage" (2002)
Recuento actual: Sí 6, No 2
19semdetenebre
Vota: "Daughter of the Golden West" by Dennis Etchison (1979)
Recuento actual: Sí 6, No 2
20paradoxosalpha
A quick reminder: I'll be tallying votes and preparing the summer list tomorrow.
21AndreasJ
I’m afraid I owe you all a bit of an apology - turns out KEW and Drake’s Killer above is a much longer work (270pp in one edition) than I realized when nominating it, and therefore dubiously suitable as a Deep Ones read. Sorry all.
22semdetenebre
>21 AndreasJ:
No worries. I thought that might be a shorter version of the novel, which I used to own but never got around to reading. It's long gone now. Wish I still had it.
No worries. I thought that might be a shorter version of the novel, which I used to own but never got around to reading. It's long gone now. Wish I still had it.
23AndreasJ
>22 semdetenebre:
We've got more than enough other nominations, so I suggest everyone who don't want a novel on the reading list simply change their vote to "No".
We've got more than enough other nominations, so I suggest everyone who don't want a novel on the reading list simply change their vote to "No".