Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:04:01 -0500 
From: John Robert Leavitt <jl3j+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Author Polls: James Blish

Welcome to the author polls.  This week's author is James Blish.

INTRO to AUTHOR POLLS  (skip if you've participated before):

   Since no two readers can generally be expected to agree
   about the quality of a given author, an overall poll
   like that used in rec.arts.movies would be useless
   except as an incendiary.  However, there is often good
   agreement about which books by a given author are most
   worthy: thus this poll.

IF YOU MISSED AN EARLIER POLL and want to contribute, please
   feel free to DO SO.

BALLOT FORMAT  (read this once):

   You have four votes, one each at +3, +2, +1, and -1. You
   may vote for a work of any length, though you may wish
   to restrict yourself to the form in which the author was
   most prolific.

SAMPLE BALLOT (just a reminder):

   + 3 <vote for at most one work>
   + 2 <vote for at most one work>
   + 1 <vote for at most one work>
   - 1 <vote for at most one work>

SEND BALLOTS TO THIS ADDRESS (jl3j@andrew.cmu.edu).  If you prefer
multiple choice, you can obtain fairly complete bibliographies by
anonymous ftp from gandalf.rutgers.edu, in /pub/sfl/authorlists.

LAST WEEK'S RESULTS:

Gene Wolfe
----------
<The Book of the New Sun series>     + 31
Soldier of the Mist                  + 12
The Fifth Head of Cerberus           +  8
The Shadow of the Torturer           +  8
The Island of Doctor Death and       +  8
  Other Stories and Other Stories
Peace                                +  5
There Are Doors                      +  5
Storeys from the Old Hotel           +  2
<Soldier series>                     +  1
Soldier Of Arete                     +  1
Endangered Species                   +  1
Book of Days                         +  1
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
``Forlesen'' [????]                  -  1
The Sword Of The Lictor              -  1
Castleview                           -  1
Free Live Free                       -  1
Operation Ares                       -  1


PREVIOUS AUTHOR LISTS are available via Email from this address,
via anonymous ftp from any CMU CS machine (e.g., ftp.cs.cmu.edu
[128.2.206.173]), or through AFS in the directory:

         /afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/jrrl/public/authorpolls/

If accessing this directory through anonymous ftp, it is important to
"cd" to the directory using one operation, as some of the superior
directories on the path are protected from access by anonymous ftp.

PREVIOUS AUTHORS:
  Roger Zelazny
  Orson Scott Card
  Ursula K. Le Guin
  Larry Niven
  C.J. Cherryh
  Robert A. Heinlein
  David Brin
  Arthur C. Clarke
  Isaac Asimov
  John Brunner
  Frank Herbert
  Jack Vance
  Philip K. Dick
  Samuel R. Delany
  Greg Bear
  Robert Silverberg
  Philip Jose Farmer
  Poul Anderson
  Frederick Pohl
  Joe Haldeman
  Stanislaw Lem
  Cordwainer Smith
  Tanith Lee
  Gordon R. Dickson
  Walter Jon Williams
  Fritz Leiber
  Clifford D. Simak
  Harlan Ellison
  Gregory Benford
  Theodore Sturgeon
  George R. R. Martin
  Ray Bradbury
  Charles Sheffield
  Michael Moorcock
  Anne McCaffrey
  Gene Wolfe