Top one hundred speculative fiction works: long list for editing

[eruthros]

Okay! So I took the 1400+ nominations and cleaned them up and clarified and pointed some formulas at them to make a 1001 item long list without any duplicates. Here's the prospective long list, if you want to check it out and make sure your nominations are still there, or just look at the list, or check for typos, or tell me to change things, or anything else.

Due to the ~magic of spreadsheets~, this will turn into a poll that looks like these sample entries:

Die 13 1/2 Leben des Käpt'n Blaubär | The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear - Walter Moers (book)

Afraid of Americans - bionic (fanvid)

Age of Misrule series - Mark Chadbourn (book series - includes: World's End, Darkest Hour, Always Forever)

ARMS | Project ARMS | プロジェクトアームズ - Minagawa Ryouji and Nanatsuki Kyouichi (manga)

Some questions:

I was planning to just leave the things where a book and a series (e.g. "The Left Hand of Darkness" and "The Hainish Cycle"), or same-universe manga and anime, or whatever, were both nominated. Then I'd see what happens in the poll, and possibly put them back together on the short list. As a bonus, this way I don't have to figure out what's in the same universe/series for everything, just for the shorter list.

I wanted the titles of things to be consistent (not just because I like consistency - mostly for spreadsheet formula purposes), so regardless of how things were nominated, I flipped them around so that the original title or the rōmaji title came first and was the only thing in the first column. But I'm not sure if things should actually be listed that way - it's going to be a long poll with things listed alphabetically, and I don't want people to be unable to find stuff because it's listed under the least-commonly-used title.

Any thoughts on any of this are welcome!

Comments

[bironic]

So, so, so looking forward to reading this.

Just noticed on a glance through your post that "I'm Afraid of Americans" is by bionic (no "r"), not me.

[eruthros]

Oh, whoops! For some reason your username just comes more readily to my fingers :)

[bironic]

:) I mistyped it too when I was replying to you. Heaven help us all if bionic and I both participate in Festivids this year.

[cereus]

Entry 290 - A fistful of Sky has the author name mis-spelled. It should be "Nina Kiriki Hoffman".

I'm pretty sure I'm responsible for that typo.

[eruthros]

Got it, thanks!

[kiki_eng]

That is such an exciting list.

I was looking through it and the English Translation of Le Petit Prince should be The Little Prince. [I'm also wondering if it should be under P rather than L with your organisational system? (Les aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec should also be moved if so.)]

[eruthros]

Oh, thanks for pointing those out! The alphabetization is done automatically by a formula that takes out articles, but I forgot to put the French ones in. Whoops!