top one hundred speculative fiction works: nominations update

[eruthros]

Nominations for the top one hundred speculative fiction works are still open at the nomination post; they'll be open for another 24 hours(ish).

I've uploaded a preliminary and very messy spreadsheet of the nominations to googledocs, if you want to browse the nominations in a different format - it's much easier to see what's already been nominated and who nominated it in the spreadsheet. And if someone else also nominated your favorite thing, it's easier to find out who and then find out what else they nominated. Basically it's a very large recs set!

Note that the spreadsheet is a first draft, containing just the information people gave me in their comments, so there will certainly be typos, creator names in different formats (surname-given name vs given name-surname), things missing creator names, names or titles missing accents or special characters, things categorized in the wrong media, etc. (Also I accidentally deleted a couple of nominator names and decided not to worry about it, so there are a couple of gaps there.)

I like to play with formulas and excel, so just for fun here are some preliminary stats, all from the version of this spreadsheet as of a couple of hours ago:

There have been 1194 nominations, out of which circa 850 different things have been nominated so far (not counting duplicate nominations).

Most frequently nominated single works/series: Avatar: The Last Airbender (12 times), The Lord of the Rings (10 times), Terry Pratchett's Discworld (10 times), and The X-Files (9 times).

Most frequently nominated creator: Diana Wynne Jones (27 times!), followed by Ursula K. LeGuin (22 times), Octavia Butler (17 times), and Terry Pratchett (15 times).

Of the 1100+ nominations: 387 are books, 284 are book series, 102 are live-action tv, 64 are live-action movies, 56 are anime, 51 are Western comics/graphic novels/webcomics, 40 are manga, 21 are short stories, and 20 are cartoons. The least represented mediums are art, short films, music videos, music/songs, plays, poems, fanvids, fanfiction, rpgs, board games, and video games (<20 nominations each).

I'm kind of tempted to say, everyone can have five more nominations in those less-represented categories (and any other unrepresented categories you think of), just because more music videos and poems and fanvids and things = more fun. (I had a great time watching all the linked youtube videos for the music and vids today while I was spreadsheeting - man, I always forget how long Thriller is.) But I dunno - what do you think?

ETA: Oh what the hell, let's go for it! You can have +5 additional nominations as long as they're for less-represented speculative fiction media: music (songs, albums, filk, music videos), fanworks (fanfic, fanvids, fanfilms, fanart), theater (plays, musicals), poetry, games (video, rpg, card, board), short films, art (paintings, fanart, digital art), or any medium that's not currently represented on the spreadsheet at all. Please add nominations back at the nomination post!

Comments

[lauredhel]

Tempting! Can we have a filk/mashup category? Cos I'd like to nominate I've Got A Theory. Along with Scooby Road under fanvids.

[eruthros]

Absolutely! And basically, if you want to nominate it, I'll make or find a category for it :) If you want to go back and comment with +5 on nomination post, please do! Yay for fillk and mashups!

[chagrined]

Is there a number for how many are live-action tv series? I noticed that was left off that list. :)

As for more of the under-represented things, well, you're just TRYING to tempt me to go through all my fic bookmarks and pick out five fics to nominate, aren't you? ;D ;D (I would ttly do so.)

eta: well maybe I'd do only four fics and also the entire Pokemon franchise, if that hasn't been nominated yet.

eta again: crap I totally forgot to nominate My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic; I hope someone else got it.

[torachan]

I definitely saw a nomination for Friendship Is Magic.

[calvinahobbes]

It's actually only been nominated once, which surprised me.

[chagrined]

Oh good! I am glad. :)

[eruthros]

I forgot to note it the first time! There are 102 right now.

And yep, I'm trying to tempt you! I decided what the hell, why not, it's not like this is a srs business attempt to make the perfect list of best-of things. So! *tempt temp* link to nomination post again

[chagrined]

Haha, okay, after my sister leaves maybe I can take a break from packing/organizing things to try to think of stuff. ;)

[sasha_feather]

Wow, thanks for doing all this work! It is really interesting, and great to have all these recs from fandom. I would totally nominate some more fic/art/vids if you opened it up.

[eruthros]

I decided to open it up, if you want to go add +5 less-represented things to the nomination post.

[torachan]

Thanks for the reminder! I was waiting to make my nominations before seeing if anyone else would nominate stuff to help me narrow down the list, but then I totally forgot about it. XD

[eruthros]

Ha, I still haven't nominated for that exact reason!

[calvinahobbes]

Ack, I totally forgot to come back to that post! Thanks for reminding me.

I'd love to get five extra nominations, specifically for the underrepresented categories, because I find the things that spring to mind are the usual formats. It takes a bit more work to remember that great song, or the cool music video... But the question is whether they'd just be weeded out again once the actual voting begins? But then, recs!

[eruthros]

Yeah, I feel the same way - largely because the best-of lists are almost always talking about books, tv, or movies, so it's easy to think of things in those categories, because I'm always going "no, that belongs higher on the list!" and "how can they have forgotten X!" Trying to open it up to speculative fiction music videos is harder!

Some of the less-represented things might get weeded out, but on the other hand there are some nominations that, once I saw them, seemed totally right and like they definitely belonged. Like Thriller, which I never would have thought without prompting but now would put on my personal top-100 list: game changing, important to me as a kid, awesome.

[calvinahobbes]

Yes, there are definitely things on the list already that I feel really silly for not having thought of! Thriller is just one example, but I really like some of the things that have come out of the process already.

[eruthros]

I decided to open it up to +5 in less-represented categories, because ... why not? So if you'd like to go add some more on the nominations post, please do!

[calvinahobbes]

Ooh, that is both cool and nerve racking! I thought I was done! But now I get to think hard about some less obvious choices! Thanks XD