08.25.00:	General scores update New books added Knight of the Demon Queen Barbara Hambly Wheel of the Infinite Martha Wells Dark Heart Margaret Weis & David Baldwin The Ring Deborah Chester Fortress of Owls Fortress of Dragons CJ Cherryh Ring of Intrigue Ring of Destiny Jane Fancher Magi'I of Cyador Scion of Cyador L E Modesitt The Kinslayer War Douglas Niles The Demon Apostle R A Salvatore Lords of Destruction James Silke The Shining Court Michelle West Rejected books The Sunset Warrior Shallows of Night Dai-San Eric Van Lustbader Reason: Already there, under 'V' General statistics Number of Books: .......................... 4864 Number of Authors: .......................... 605 Number of Series: ............................ 923 Number of Books with 5+ votes: ... 1121 Number of Books with 0 votes: ..... 1768 This is probably the last update for a bit, while I revamp the backend program that handles all the vote processing. It's getting a few new features which should be pretty interesting, once they're completed. It means changing the format of the data storage files a bit, though, so once I start tweaking things, I can't process votes until it's all done. Shouldn't take more than a week or two, though, depending on how much time I have to sink into it.
08.12.00:	General scores update General statistics Number of Books: .......................... 4849 Number of Authors: .......................... 605 Number of Series: ............................ 920 Number of Books with 5+ votes: ... 1086 Number of Books with 0 votes: ..... 1827 Not much voting activity lately, but some. On the other hand, a significant amount of activity on this end, as I prepare to modify the backend program for this thing, to add some more statistical information to the scoring. That means dusting off that section of my brain that handles the infinitely tacky vb language, though. I just don't have enough confidence in my capability to do massive string and massive string array manipulation in c++ to rewrite the program in that language. More on that when I get closer to being done, though.
07.29.00:	General scores update Books added The First Test Page Magic Steps Tamora Pierce Chosen Ricardo Pinto Rejected books All her books Mercedes Lackey Reason: Already there General statistics Number of Books: .......................... 4849 Number of Authors: .......................... 605 Number of Series: ............................ 920 Number of Books with 5+ votes: ... 1085 Number of Books with 0 votes: ..... 1841 A fairly normal update, including a bunch of votes I accidentally didn't add to the last update, so if anyone who voted earlier and was wondering why they didn't show up, there they are now. IE and Netscape vote submissions behave totally differently, so sometimes that causes a bit of confusion on this end. Anyway, hopefully by this time next week, I'll have my grubby little paws on Ship of Destiny, and then a certain someone who got it months ago can stop gloating...
07.21.00:	General scores update Rejected books The Golden Key Kate Elliot Reason: Already there, filed under coauthor Melanie Rawn General statistics Number of Books: .......................... 4845 Number of Authors: .......................... 604 Number of Series: ............................ 917 Number of Books with 5+ votes: ... 1078 Number of Books with 0 votes: ..... 1842 A whole mess of votes this time, with over a hundred books that had not been scored before earning their first votes. Very impressive.
07.11.00:	General scores update Books added Jedi Search Dark Apprentice Champions of the Force Darksaber Kevin J Anderson Talion: Revenant Rogue Squadron Wedge's Gamble The Krytos Trap The Bacta War Wraith Squadron Iron Fist Solo Command Isard's Revenge Starfighters of Adumar The Dark Glory War Eyes of Silver Michael A Stackpole Heir to the Empire Dark Force Rising The Last Command Specter of the Past Vision of the Future The Icarus Hunt Timothy Zahn Children of the Jedi Planet of Twilight Barbara Hambly Acorna the Unicorn Girl Acorna's Quest Acorna's People Anne McCaffrey An Alien Heat The Hollow Lands End of all Songs Michael Moorcock Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut General statistics Number of Books: .......................... 4845 Number of Authors: .......................... 604 Number of Series: ............................ 917 Number of Books with 5+ votes: ... 1054 Number of Books with 0 votes: ..... 1967 I apologize profusely for the one-month lack of updating. My internal network has been so insufferable lately that I had to take it down for a few weeks while I tried to get it working in a semi-reasonable way. Unfortunately, while that network is down, the computer which contains all of the data and programs for this site has no internet connection, so it can't receive the votes or upload them. On another note, it's fairly obvious that a pretty good chunk of the books added this time were from the Star Wars line of things (genre? series? can't really think of a good word to apply). I still haven't come up with a good solution as to what to do with the lengthy single-timeline multi-author sets of books out there, the D&D and star trek/star wars/battletech/etc the most prominent of them. I'm just filing them by author right now, but if that becomes too burdensome or confusing, at some point I might just have to give them their own sections, like bookstores tend to do. We'll see.
06.12.00:	General scores update Books added The Empire Stone The Last Legion Firemask Chris Bunch The Sword Deborah Chester General statistics Number of Books: .......................... 4814 Number of Authors: .......................... 603 Number of Series: ............................ 907 Number of Books with 5+ votes: ... 1042 Number of Books with 0 votes: ..... 1980 A few new votes, a few new books. Now I'll just sit back and return to waiting for Ship of Destiny to make it here.
06.05.00:	General scores update Updated Favorite Character survey results Repaired flaw in Dannis Schmidt listing (Dragons of the Rhine not his) Books added Beyond the Pale Keep of the Fire Mark Anthony Groa's Other Eye Dennis Schmidt Seer King Demon King Warrior King Chris Bunch Wit'chfire Wit'chstorm James Clemens Rejected books Soul of the Fire Terry Goodkind Reason: Already there General statistics Number of Books: .......................... 4810 Number of Authors: .......................... 602 Number of Series: ............................ 904 Number of Books with 5+ votes: ... 1039 Number of Books with 0 votes: ..... 1983 Sorry once again for the lack of updates. The DiabloII stress test was released and, well, I've been indisposed. Lots of new votes uploaded, though. Oh, and what parents would name their child Mark Anthony? Just wondering...
05.15.00:	General scores update Books added The Jackal of Nar The Grand Design John Marco General statistics Number of Books: .......................... 4803 Number of Authors: .......................... 599 Number of Series: ............................ 901 Number of Books with 5+ votes: ... 1033 Number of Books with 0 votes: ..... 2015 The number of books with zero votes is falling, even with the addition of new books almost every update. Won't be too long and it will be below a third.
05.09.00:	General scores update Books added Gardens of the Moon Steven Erikson The Broken God The Wild The War in Heaven David Zindell General statistics Number of Books: .......................... 4801 Number of Authors: .......................... 598 Number of Series: ............................ 900 Number of Books with 5+ votes: ... 1028 Number of Books with 0 votes: ..... 2057 A few more books added, and a (small) amount of voting activity. I'm currently being devoured by jealousy because people in Europe evidently get first crack at the Robin Hobb books, but I'll live.
04.24.00:	General scores update Books added Demon of Undoing Andrea Alton Dragonne's Eg Mary Brown Season of Storms Ellen Foxxe Midshipman's Hope Challenger's Hope Prisoner's Hope Fisherman's Hope Voices of Hope David Feintuch McLendon's Syndrome VMR Theory Robert Frezza Brother Assassin The Dracula Tape Fred Saberhagen Darkworld Detective Michael Reaves Beyond the Gates Catherine Wells Price of the Stars Starpilot's Grave By Honor Betray'd The Gatherine Flame Debra Doyle and James D MacDonald Semper Mars Luna Marine Ian Douglas Code of Conduct Kristine Smith Queen of Darkness Anne Bishop Removed Door Into Starlight by Diane Duane, not released yet General statistics Number of Books: .......................... 4797 Number of Authors: .......................... 597 Number of Series: ............................ 898 Number of Books with 5+ votes: ... 1024 Number of Books with 0 votes: ..... 2067 Sorry again for the long delay. My current programming class is more difficult than I had anticipated, and after a few hours writing c++ I just can't bring myself to do html. I'm switching to a Monday update schedule, so hopefully that will improve things. Lots of books added this time, anyway, including two I hadn't added previously even though I own them... Also, the number of contenders broke a thousand for the first time with this update, so much cheering and rejoicing and such is called for.