THE DEEP ONES: Winter 2022 Planning Thread
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1paradoxosalpha
This thread is for nominations and voting on stories for inclusion in the January-March reads in this group. Please feel free to draw on the ongoing brainstorming thread for nominations, but don't limit yourself to items discussed there. There is no further obligation--even to participate in the resulting discussion if a nomination is selected! It's perfectly okay to gamble on stories the nominator has never read, although also welcome for nominators to put up stories they've enjoyed and would like to revisit. In all these years, we've never been known to dog anyone for nominating a story where readers end up taking a dim view of it.
As in past rounds, any story that gets more "No" than "Yes" votes won't make the cut; otherwise they'll be prioritized according to net-yes-minus-no, and the final list will be in OPD sequence. Ties will be broken in favor of author and period variety.
To propose a story for voting, place the title and author between HTML-style angle-bracket tags. The open tag says vote (in brackets); the close tag says /vote (ditto). Multiple polls need multiple posts. If you put the name of the author in double square brackets, it will make it a linked "touchstone" for the LT database, and first publication dates of nominated stories are appreciated. Also welcome are remarks about the story, the author, and your nomination motives, and/or a link to an online version. Here is an example (from a previous thread):
A useful resource for general bibliography info including OPD and inclusion in collections is ISFDB.
You can see a sortable list of all previous discussions here. The persistent brainstorming thread is here. Nominations repeating old discussions will be disqualified, but revival of dormant discussion threads is always welcome. "That is not dead which can eternal lie," etc.
VOTING is scheduled to END on the Winter Solstice: Tuesday, December 21.
As in past rounds, any story that gets more "No" than "Yes" votes won't make the cut; otherwise they'll be prioritized according to net-yes-minus-no, and the final list will be in OPD sequence. Ties will be broken in favor of author and period variety.
To propose a story for voting, place the title and author between HTML-style angle-bracket tags. The open tag says vote (in brackets); the close tag says /vote (ditto). Multiple polls need multiple posts. If you put the name of the author in double square brackets, it will make it a linked "touchstone" for the LT database, and first publication dates of nominated stories are appreciated. Also welcome are remarks about the story, the author, and your nomination motives, and/or a link to an online version. Here is an example (from a previous thread):
A useful resource for general bibliography info including OPD and inclusion in collections is ISFDB.
You can see a sortable list of all previous discussions here. The persistent brainstorming thread is here. Nominations repeating old discussions will be disqualified, but revival of dormant discussion threads is always welcome. "That is not dead which can eternal lie," etc.
VOTING is scheduled to END on the Winter Solstice: Tuesday, December 21.
2paradoxosalpha
Vota: "The Grey God Passes" by Robert E. Howard (1962)
Corrispondenza attuale: Sì 8, No 1
(Renominated from its position at the cutoff in the Fall voting.)
3AndreasJ
Vota: H. P. Lovecraft, "Herbert West - Reanimator" (1922)
Corrispondenza attuale: Sì 7, No 1, Incerto 1
Online here, and audio here.
4AndreasJ
Vota: Tanith Lee, "Clockatrice" (2009)
Corrispondenza attuale: Sì 9, No 1
5AndreasJ
Vota: Jeffrey Ford, "After Moreau" (2008)
Corrispondenza attuale: Sì 10, No 1
6AndreasJ
Vota: Vernon Lee, "Dionea" (1890)
Corrispondenza attuale: Sì 9, No 0
7AndreasJ
Vota: John Wiswell, "Open House on Haunted Hill" (2020)
Corrispondenza attuale: Sì 6, No 2
8RandyStafford
Vota: "The Enemy", Isaac Bashevis Singer, (1980)
Corrispondenza attuale: Sì 9, No 1
9paradoxosalpha
Vota: "The Cage" by Jeff VanderMeer (2002)
Corrispondenza attuale: Sì 10, No 0
10paradoxosalpha
Vota: "One Tree Hill (The World as Cataclysm)" by Caitlín R. Kiernan (2013)
Corrispondenza attuale: Sì 4, No 3, Incerto 1
11paradoxosalpha
Vota: "When the Green Star Waned" by Nictzin Dyalhis (1925)
Corrispondenza attuale: Sì 9, No 0
12paradoxosalpha
Vota: "A View from a Hill" by M. R. James (1925)
Corrispondenza attuale: Sì 9, No 1
14PLANETBUDS
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15AndreasJ
>11 paradoxosalpha:
That one's online, but LT really doesn't like the formating of the link.
ETA: This shortened URL seems to work:
https://tinyurl.com/ycknbku8
That one's online, but LT really doesn't like the formating of the link.
ETA: This shortened URL seems to work:
https://tinyurl.com/ycknbku8
16paradoxosalpha
Vota: "Lorelei of the Red Mist" by Leigh Brackett and Ray Bradbury (1946)
Corrispondenza attuale: Sì 9, No 0
18housefulofpaper
Vota: "The Crab Spider" by Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian ("Erckmann-Chatrian")(1860)
Corrispondenza attuale: Sì 9, No 0
https://dmdujour.wordpress.com/2016/04/25/erckmann-chatrian-the-waters-of-death/
20AndreasJ
We seem to have a bit of a shortage of nominations this far (13, one of which threatening to to be disqualified for too many No's), so let's throw in an extra:Funereal decadence with a dash of Zhuangzi. Not really sf in any sense despite the title and extraterrestrial setting of the bulk of the story. Typo-riddled online version here, collected a reasonable number of times.
Vota: Clark Ashton Smith, "The Planet of the Dead" (1932)
Corrispondenza attuale: Sì 9, No 0, Incerto 1
21housefulofpaper
Vota: "The End of the Garden" by Michal Ajvaz (1991)
Corrispondenza attuale: Sì 8, No 0, Incerto 2
I do know Ajvaz is a Czech novelist and poet, and his work apparently has a Surreal or Magical Realist feel to it.
22RandyStafford
Vota: "The Spectre Bridegroom", Washington Irving (1819)
Corrispondenza attuale: Sì 9, No 1
23paradoxosalpha
Last chance to vote! I will start the tallies in an hour or two.