FMK #26: This Is Flat-Out Fanfic
It looks like there will be more non-spec-fic weeks coming up, though, I ended up with 8 more weeks worth of that. I know fewer of you get excited about those but that's what I have on my shelves. There's also four more anthology weeks.
This week's anthologies also did not garner a huge number of votes. I will reiterate you don't have to know anything about the books to vote! A lot of these I bought just 'cause I liked the title so you do not have to feel bad if you vote that way. I suspect last week's voting was on that basis, given that it was a dead heat between Carmen Miranda's ghost is haunting space station three and Brave New Girls: Girls and Gadgets. Brave New Girls won F in the end! Cats In Space won K. Surely... surely ya'll don't have something about Cats in Space? I read all the Catfantastics back in the day; I will have to at least check that one to see how much overlap there is.
I finally finished Locke Lamora, so I have three reviews to get through; IDK if I'll do that first, or a proper yuletide letter...
How FMK works, short version: I am trying to clear out my unreads. So there is a poll, in which you get to pick F, M, or K. F means I should spend a night of wild passion with the book ASAP, and then decide whether to keep it or not. M means I should continue to commit to a long-term relationship of sharing my bedroom with it. K means it should go away immediately. Anyone can vote, you don't have to actually know anything about the books.
I pick a winner on Friday night (although won't actually close the poll, people can still vote,) and report results/ post the new poll on the following Tuesday, and write a response to the F winner sometime in the next week.
Link to long version of explanation (on first poll)
For the midway point, we have a very special theme this week: PEOPLE GETTING PAID PRO RATES FOR FANFIC! Hoorah!
Slan Hunter by Kevin J. Anderson (and Van Vogt) (1995)
The Enchanter Reborn by L Sprague de Camp (1996)
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant (1997)
Flashman: from the Flashman Papers by George MacDonald Fraser (1969)
The Magicians by Lev Grossman (2009)
Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis (1956)
Wicked by Gregory Maguire (1996)
The Girl With The Golden Bouffant: A Jane Bond Parody by Mabel Maney (2004)
The Independence of Miss Mary Bennett by Colleen McCullough (2008)
There And Back Again by Pat Murphy (1999)
Rainbow Mars by Larry Niven (1999)
Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi (2011)
The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson (1888)
Pride & Promiscuity edited by Arielle Eckstut (2001)
Foundation's Friends edited by Martin H. Greenberg (1989)
Weird Tales from Shakespeare edited by Martin H. Greenberg (1989)
The Day The Magic Stopped edited by Christopher Stasheff (1995)
Fantastic Alice edited by Magaret Weis (1995)