The second annual Aluminum Falcon awards: ALL RESULTS ARE UP!

Yeah, it kinda bizarre really. I mean I'm pleased that 501st finished so strong, and certainly the Atlas is deserving(as it was my pick for EU work of the year as well), but I'm confused

 

Well, when you've got relatively few people voting (about 25) and weighted votes, you can get some oddities cropping up -- people who only vote for one thing instead of three, giving their single vote even more weight, people who don't vote in one category, a lot of people including something low (or high) in their rankings on one list and dropping it on a bigger-picture list while a handful of people include something high on their rankings in both lists, that sort of thing.

When I say there was no consensus on Best Work outside of the Atlas, I really mean it. 501st got where it was from the equivalent of three people giving it a first-place vote; that's how low votes for everything else were. One first-place vote and one second-place vote were enough just to place. The Atlas, on the other hand, got the equivalent of thirteen first-place votes. Due to consensus being so high on the Atlas and low on everything else, people who only voted for one thing frequently voted for the Atlas, getting us nowhere with trying to get other stuff to place.

 

Interesting. I would have thought there would be more voters than that.

Again, great job on this Havac.

 

I was gonna say - next year we need a TFN news post to announce the start of voting. And a week or so of non-sticky status at some point might actually help its visibility.

 

I'm glad John Jackson Miller and Knights of the Old Republic did so well. I just wish we weren't losing such a great comic. Hopefully, JJM will be back soon with something equally wonderful.

The Essential Atlas *is* a great product. I think it deserved its win.

Congratulations to all the winners.

Once again, thanks Havac, for all of your work on organizing these awards and compiling the list of winners.

CooperTFN, nice job on creating the award. It looks great!

 

I don't know how much of the reason was visibility. I wasn't really enthused by enough stuff this year to vote; I've only even read three of the novels in the Best Novel category, for example.

 

I dunno what to say Hydro.

 

Yay KotOR! Yay John Jackson Miller! Yay Legacy! Yay Dark Horse!

Although that last best EU thing ended up being really strange. Essential Atlas was a definite for first place, but 501st was second when it wasn't even in the top three of the novels? Strange the way these votes play out. Gotta remember to vote earlier next year. Though its almost sad that the Atlas drew so many first-place votes so that we ended up with a really strange looking list, but oh well, at least that goes to show how awesome the Atlas was. Wonder if anything else next year will match it.

KotOR should still be in the running next year, right? Then again, by the next Aluminum Falcons, it'll probably have faded from most people's minds, unfortunately.

 

I think the reason was most people didn't know this vote was going on. I definitely would have voted but I totally forgot the voting had even started. If there was an announcement outside of this thread about the start of the voting process, I definitely would have participated. But anyway, nice work Havac! And I'm also pleased with many of the winners.

 

^ I rest my case. ^

 

I'm surprised that Drew Karpyshyn placed so low. I'm surprised that he placed lower than Karen Traviss. IC: 501st was when I started to reevaluate my opinion of her. I agree that we need to publicize it more next year.

I would have voted for more things, but I refused to vote for what I hadn't actually read.

 

Yeah, with this happening when school was starting back up, I didn't have time to get a vote in. When I finally had a minute and looked in here it said the voting was over.

 

How in the name of Ziost did Patterns of Force come out ahead of Dynasty of Evil?

 

I suppose too many people were miffed at the ending. I didn't even bother with patterns of the force; I read the first book, and wasn't very impressed. Dynasty of Evil deserved better than it got. Which reminds me, I really need to post a review of it for the JC Lit Reviews Special...

If they hadn't been released in hardback, I would have read FOTJ. But hardcovers are expensive and take up too much space on my overcrowded shelves, so I didn't.

But hey, the Essential Atlas got its dues!

 

Hey, why was this unstickied the day after all the results went up? Not like I have a vested interest in it or anything.

I generally agree with what won and I didn't even vote. I should do that more often if that's the way it works. Except for that 501st glitch at the end there. Argh.

 

Despite the kinda weird voting results (that have already been mentioned a few times) , I think we have some very deserving winners here, particularly John Jackson Miller, but also a lot of the others. The Atlas... wow, what an incredible work!

 

Abyss by Denning won best novel yet Allston won best novel author? Reminds me of when a movie wins best picture at the Oscars without winning best director.

 

That one actually makes a weird sort of sense... but 501st finishing as the fifth best novel but 2nd best work overall, beating out all four novels which beat it for best novel? That doesn't make sense

 

Whoa, this is awesome. Many thanks to everybody!

 

Hey, seriously, you guys deserve it.

 

Are you really that modest, Jason? The Essential Atlas isn't just the best SW reference work for 2009, it's the best SW reference work ever. And while it may not be the best EU work ever, I think I'd put it somewhere in my top 10.

 

This.

 

Thank you TFN Literature! We're just so happy to be here. So happy. A lot of people helped get us to this point. To my first-grade English teacher, Mrs. Price, I did it --

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