Amph The SFF Favorite Book Tournament - THIRD Round Underway - Gaiman, Pratchett Divisions!

Ender's Shadow
Exile
Winter's Heart
Abstain

 

George R.R. Martin Division

A Storm of Swords by George R R Martin 2, Ender's Shadow by OS Card 3

The Briar King by Greg Keyes 0, Exile by R.A. Salvatore 2

Winter's Heart by Robert Jordan 3, The One Tree by Stephen R. Donaldson 0

Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake 1, Seeker by Jack McDevitt 0

 

Fantasy League

Arthur C. Clarke Division

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card vs East/North Child by Edith Pattou

Dead Beat by Jim Butcher vs The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis vs The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold.

The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester vs Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

 

East - so good! Kinda weird at first, but I really love it.

Abstain on the rest.

 

Arthur C. Clarke Division

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Dead Beat by Jim Butcher

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis

abstain

 

Ender's Game; The Horse and His Boy; The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; abstain.

 

East/North Child by Edith Pattou

The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis

Abstain

Why are there two Lewis books in the same division?

 

This was an easy one for me.

Ender's Game by OSCard
Dead Beat by JButcher
Lion/Witch/Wardrobe by CSLewis
Abstain

 

Why are there two Lewis books in the same division?

Because I used a random generator to create the order, and didn't make changes to it.

 

Ender's Game and Warrior's Apprentice; abstain on the rest.

 

Ender is winning.

 

Ender wins. That's what he does.

 

Exactly

Ender's Game
Horse and His Boy
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Abstain

 

Fantasy League

Arthur C. Clarke Division

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card 6, East/North Child by Edith Pattou 2

Dead Beat by Jim Butcher 2, The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis 4

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis 6, The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold 1

The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester 0, Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson 0 - both eliminated

 

R. A. Salvatore Division

Memories of Ice- Steven Erikson vs Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Ender in Exile by OS Card vs The Memory of Earth by Orson Scott Card

War of the Twins by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman vs The Magic Engineer by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss vsAltered Carbon by Richard Morgan


...huh, I didn't realize their were two books by the same author matched up in the first round.

 

Ayn Rand in the Salvatore Division, this is getting....interesting.

Can't believe no one voted for Snow Crash. I only read the first couple of Ender books. War of the Twins brings me way back in a good way.

And The Name of the Wind may have been the best fantasy novel I read last year.

 

Memories of Ice- Steven Erikson - on principle

Abstain, but I find it funny

The Magic Engineer by L. E. Modesitt, Jr. - I enjoyed this one very much - probably my second favorite out of the five I read (with The Towers of the Sunset or whatever it is being the first).

Abstain

 

I know Erikson's hugely popular, but I tried to read his first novel and just couldn't get into it.

 

couple more votes would be nice before I close this round

 

I'll vote for Erikson on the basis of the fact that Rand's an ignorant polemicist and I'm voting against her. On the rest I really have to abstain.

 

The Memory of Earth.

I have yet to read the other one, but MoE was pretty amazing.

Evil.

 

R. A. Salvatore Division

Memories of Ice- Steven Erikson

Ender in Exile by OS Card

War of the Twins by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss