So a while back Tor.com posted up a poll asking readers to vote on what they considered the best Sci-fi and Fantasy novels of the last decade.
Imagine my delight when The Name of the Wind came in #3 in the top 10, right behind Scalzi’s Old Man’s War and Gaiman’s American Gods.
Imagine my further delight when I found out they were asking authors to do little write ups about each of the books that made the top 10.
“Would you like, to do a write up for American Gods?” they asked me. “We know you’re a bit of a Gaiman fan….”
“Yes,” I said. “Yes I am.”
So I wrote a little piece about American Gods.
As part of the same poll, John Scalzi wrote piece about how he first encountered The Name of the Wind. It’s a shameful tale that includes the details of how I stalked him like some sort of stealthy, cowardly… something. Perhaps a tree lizard of some kind. Or an ocelot. Or maybe one of those deep-sea fangly fish.
Here’s a link to his post, which is much more entertaining than mine.
I’m still sorting through the photos from the contest. There were more than a thousand of them in all, with very little chaff, so it’s taking some time. But don’t worry, you’ll be seeing them soon…
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