07.18.05:	General scores update Books added David and the Phoenix Edward Ormondroy If Lions Could Speak and Other Stories Paul Park Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexion Novel Milorad Pavic The Best-Known Man in the World and Other Misfits Daniel Pearlman The Blue Lantern The Life of Insects Victor Pelevin Green Music Ursula Pflug Plowing the Dark Richard Powers The Last Hero Terry Pratchett The Dragons of Springplace Robert Reed Revelation Space Redemption Ark Absolution Gap Chasm City Alastair Reynolds On Polystom Salt The Soddit: or, Cashing in Again Adam Roberts Unconquered Countries Geoff Ryman Alternate Skiffy Mike Resnick and Patrick Nielson Hayden (editors) Nebula Awards Showcase 2002 Kim Stanley Robinson (editor) Rabid Transit Jamie Simons and E W Scollon The Paths of the Dead The Lord of Castle Black Sethra Lavode Steven Brust Rejected books: Bend Sinister Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov Reason: Not SF/F The Third Policeman Flann O'Brien Reason: Not SF/F A Book of Nonsense Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor Mervyn Peake Reason: Not SF/F Dating Secrets of the Dead David Prill Reason: Not SF/F Dream Makers Dream Makers vol II Charles Platt Reason: Not SF/F Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels Science Fiction: The Hundred Best Novels David Pringle Reason: Not SF/F Lord of the Elves and Eldils Richard Purtill Malpertuis Jean Ray Reason: Not SF/F Hadrian the Seventh Frederick Rolfe Reason: Not SF/F The Moor's Last Sigh Salman Rushdie Reason: Not SF/F 253 Geoff Ryman Reason: Not SF/F The Book/The Writer Zoran Zivkovic Reason: Not SF/F Joy of Sex Doing Math While High: A Beginner's Guide B sub J? Jonny Ursin, Adam Larios, Mark DeSmet, respectively Cute, Jonny... General statistics Number of Books: ........................... 6225 Number of Authors: ........................... 870 Number of Series: .......................... 1087 Number of Books with 5+ votes: ... 2042 Number of Books with 0 votes: ..... 1347 Another overdue update. My list of books to possibly add is still dauntingly large, but I've made the first tiny dent in it. Progress as time permits.
03.31.05:	Still alive! General scores update General statistics Number of Books: ........................... 6200 Number of Authors: ........................... 860 Number of Series: .......................... 1085 Number of Books with 5+ votes: ... 2038 Number of Books with 0 votes: ..... 1325 Finally an update, at long last. Still no new books added, but that will come as I get to them. I've been wrapped up with the major obligation of my master's degree in math for the last several months, and such things naturally come before feeding textfiles of votes to my now-archaic parser. Now I'm into the last quarter of the program, and essentially home free, modulo a few details here and there, and hopefully I can get this site into a generally maintained state. At this point all the votes are current and complete. I've lost count of how many books need to be verified and added, but it's more than one by a bunch. I'm thinking about starting with the 'P's, just to be random.
09.15.04:	General scores update General statistics Number of Books: ........................... 6200 Number of Authors: ........................... 860 Number of Series: .......................... 1085 Number of Books with 5+ votes: ... 2022 Number of Books with 0 votes: ..... 1345 There are indeed new books to be added. There are just far more of them than I can get a handle on right now- a few more than 300, to ballpark it. I'll be adding them in vaguely alphabetical chunks over the next few updates. Brace yourselves...
08.09.04:	General scores update New books added Sunrise Alley Catherine Asaro Outlaw of Mars Leigh Brackett Staying Dead Laura Anne Gilman Cold Equations Tom Godwin On Fire's Wings Christie Golden The Wizard's Ward Deborah Hale Seraphim Michele Hauf Silver's Edge Anne Kelleher The Fairy Godmother Mercedes Lackey Angel-Seeker The Safe-Keeper's Secret Sharon Shinn Starfish Maelstrom Behemoth: B-Max Peter Watts Playing God Kingdom of Cages A Sorcerer's Treason The Usurper's Crown In Camelot's Shadow Sarah Zettel General statistics Number of Books: ........................... 6200 Number of Authors: ........................... 860 Number of Series: .......................... 1085 Number of Books with 5+ votes: ... 2016 Number of Books with 0 votes: ..... 1390 Vaguely timely, this time. Yay.
07.24.04:	General scores update New books added Prey Michael Crichton The Summer Witch Daughter of Storms Dark Caller Keepers of Light Louise Cooper Paragon Lost Impossible Odds The Jaguar Knights Dave Duncan The Wild Hunt: Vengeance Moon Jocelin Foxe A Small Colonial War Fire in a Faraway Place Cain's Land Robert Frezza Intrigues Deceptions Destiny Sharon Green Exile's Valor Spirits White as Lightning The Gates of Sleep Mercedes Lackey Wild Cards Aces High Jokers Wild Aces Abroad Down and Dirty Ace in the Hole Dead Man's Hand One-Eyed Jacks Jokertown Shuffle Double Solitaire Dealer's Choice Turn of the Cards Card Sharks Marked Cards Black Trump Deuces Down George R R Martin (editor) Dragon's Kin Acorna's Triumph Anne McCaffrey Ombria in Shadow Tower at Stony Wood Alphabet of Thorn Patricia A Mckillip Spin State Chris Moriarty The Golden Sword Fiona Patton Heart-Readers The Black Queen The Black King Kristine Kathryn Rusch Rejected books The Years of Rice and Salt Forty Signs of Rain Kim Stanley Robinson Reason: Not SF/F General statistics Number of Books: ........................... 6181 Number of Authors: ........................... 855 Number of Series: .......................... 1082 Number of Books with 5+ votes: ... 2014 Number of Books with 0 votes: ..... 1376 Yay, didn't take quite three months to get to it... Yay also on breaking 2000 in the "contenders" (books voted on by 5+ people) category! Very impressive. It's abominably hot here, and all the ice in my coke has melted, so this must be brief. In case you were curious, though, here's where those statistics come from, along with a cool (but slightly stressed at this point and showing its age- when the code to draw it was written, having 1000+ in a single column wasn't going to happen any time soon) bar chart showing the score breakdown (black portion of bars indicate all books with that score, dark red portion indicates contender books with that score). The whole program needs to be rewritten in a real (read: not VB) programming language at some point, but it's been a vast help for the years I've been using it.
04.25.04:	General scores update New books added Wandor's Voyage Roland Green Lost in a Good Book The Eyre Affair Jasper Fforde The Martians Kim Stanley Robinson A Bowl of Fruit, A Whale in the Woods Russel Like Palindor D R Evans General statistics Number of Books: ........................... 6137 Number of Authors: ........................... 853 Number of Series: .......................... 1076 Number of Books with 5+ votes: ... 1984 Number of Books with 0 votes: ..... 1364 Middling update. It's nice to snag them before they get overwhelmingly large, heh.
03.06.04:	General scores update New books added The Charmed Sphere Irresistible Forces Catherine Asaro Gabriel's Ghost Megan Sybil Baker Tyrant Moon Winter's Orphan Elaine Corvidae Paying the Piper The Far Side of the World David Drake Outlander Dragonfly in Amber Voyager The Fiery Cross Diana Gabaldon The Descent Jeff Long The Case of Charles Dexter Ward H P Lovecraft Lirael Abhorsen Garth Nix Trickster's Choice Tamora Pierce Hominids Humans Hybrids Robert J Sawyer Hard to Be a God A & B Strugatsky Rejected Books Necroscope Brian Lumley Reason: Not SF/F Shock II Richard Matheson Reason: Not SF/F The Lioness Quartet Protector of the Small Quartet Tamora Pierce Reason: Already there Lord of the Rings J R R Tolkien Reason: Already there (How could they not be?) General statistics Number of Books: ........................... 6131 Number of Authors: ........................... 851 Number of Series: .......................... 1076 Number of Books with 5+ votes: ... 1981 Number of Books with 0 votes: ..... 1387 Again, it's certainly been a while. Pretty solidly big update, though. It's nice to see the '0 votes' entry slowly but steadily tick down, even though it still leave over a thousand books listed that no one has ever scored. Poor neglected things, obviously someone needs to give them a try, and let the rest of us know if their shunning is deserved or not.