1paradoxosalpha
This thread is for nominations and voting on stories for inclusion in the January-March 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. Here is an example (from a previous thread):
![](//pics.cdn.librarything.com//picsizes/be/1c/be1c495d6a1ad6b637074697977415742564944_v5.jpg)
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. The 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 Winter Solstice: Wednesday, December 21.
Voting for your own nominations is permissible and encouraged.
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. Here is an example (from a previous thread):
![](http://pics.cdn.librarything.com//picsizes/be/1c/be1c495d6a1ad6b637074697977415742564944_v5.jpg)
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. The 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 Winter Solstice: Wednesday, December 21.
Voting for your own nominations is permissible and encouraged.
2paradoxosalpha
"The Child That Went with the Fairies" by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1870) got 11 votes for Autumn but was left off the schedule, making it an auto-include for Winter. It was my own late nomination, and I seem to have just left it off the bottom when I was totting up.
3paradoxosalpha
Vota: Fritz Leiber, "The Sadness of the Executioner" (1973)
Recuento actual: Sí 8, No 1
A Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser tale, quite short, but has apparently been published standalone as a chapbook.
Online here, courtesy of Baen.
4AndreasJ
Vota: H.P. Lovecraft, "The Other Gods" (1933)
Recuento actual: Sí 10, No 0
Online e.g. at Wikisource:
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Other_Gods
* While only published in '33, it was written in '21.
5AndreasJ
Vota: George R. R. Martin, "Sandkings" (1979)
Recuento actual: Sí 5, No 2, Sin decidir 1
Randy described it as a "sort of a thematic follow up to Theodore Sturgeon's "Microcosmic God"" when he originally nominated it.
6AndreasJ
Vota: Henry Kuttner, "I, the Vampire" (1937)
Recuento actual: Sí 7, No 1, Sin decidir 1
7AndreasJ
Vota: Karin Tidbeck, "Sing" (2013)
Recuento actual: Sí 5, No 3
In a village on the distant colony of Kiruna, the outcast Aino has worked hard to created a life for herself. The fragile status quo is upset when the offworlder Petr arrives and insists on becoming a part of her life. But he has no idea what it will cost him, and has cost Aino, to belong to the people who sing with inhuman voices.
Online at Tor.
8paradoxosalpha
Vota: "Familiar" by China Mieville (2002)
Recuento actual: Sí 9, No 1
9paradoxosalpha
Vota: "Scarlet Dream" by C.L. Moore (1934)
Recuento actual: Sí 1, No 1
10semdetenebre
Paging the hundreds of other members of this group - no one else wants to make some nominations? Admittedly, we've gone through a lot of stories on a weekly basis over the years, but come on - we don't bite! Some of you probably have some great ideas for nominations. You're not all merely group collectors, are you? :)
I plan to submit a few this weekend.
I plan to submit a few this weekend.
11AndreasJ
>9 paradoxosalpha:
Actually we did “Scarlet Dream” back in 2016:
Scarlet Dream
But if more Northwest Smith is called for I nominateAvailable in about the same places, and perhaps the most original entry in the series.
Actually we did “Scarlet Dream” back in 2016:
Scarlet Dream
But if more Northwest Smith is called for I nominate
Vota: C. L. Moore, “Dust of Gods” (1934)
Recuento actual: Sí 7, No 2
12paradoxosalpha
Vota: "Little Red's Tango" by Peter Straub (2002)
Recuento actual: Sí 7, No 2, Sin decidir 1
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Vota: "The Stealer of Souls" by Michael Moorcock (1962)
Recuento actual: Sí 8, No 1
14paradoxosalpha
Vota: "The Faery Handbag" by Kelly Link (2004)
Recuento actual: Sí 6, No 3
Available online.
Print bibliography.
15paradoxosalpha
Vota: Tainaron: Mail from Another City by Leena Krohn (1985)
Recuento actual: Sí 8, No 1
16semdetenebre
Vota: "The Wolves of God" by Algernon Blackwood (1921)
Recuento actual: Sí 11, No 0
Also found in several other collections and available online:
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/38310/pg38310-images.html
17paradoxosalpha
Vota: "The Oram County Whoosit" by Steve Duffy (2008)
Recuento actual: Sí 9, No 1, Sin decidir 1
18RandyStafford
Vota: "Black Boots", Robert McCammon (1989)
Recuento actual: Sí 9, No 0
19RandyStafford
Vota: "The Motion Demon", Stefan Grabinski (1919)
Recuento actual: Sí 7, No 0, Sin decidir 2
It's another train story from Grabinski.
20RandyStafford
Vota: "The Thing in the Cellar", David H. Keller (1932)
Recuento actual: Sí 11, No 0
Widely anthologized and also available online at https://weirdfictionreview.com/2012/03/the-thing-in-the-cellar-by-david-h-keller....
21semdetenebre
Vota: "The King's Shadow Has No Limits" by Avram Davidson (1975)
Recuento actual: Sí 5, No 3, Sin decidir 1
22housefulofpaper
Vota: "Running Down" by M. John Harrison (1975)
Recuento actual: Sí 6, No 3
Collected in The Machine in Shaft Ten and other stories, The Ice Monkey, Settling the World, Things That Never Happen, New Worlds: an Anthology
23housefulofpaper
Vota: "The Sign-Painter and the Crystal Fishes" by Marjorie Bowen (1931)
Recuento actual: Sí 10, No 0, Sin decidir 1
In the Arkham House collection Kecksies and other Twilight Tales. - Edited to add, and available online from Project Gutenberg (the story's first appearance in a book, The Last Bouquet).
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks09/0900571h.html#story13
24paradoxosalpha
Voting closes tomorrow!