From: parmentier@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu
Subject: Two Vance polls compared
Organization: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 20:46:38 GMT


	Since I don't have the full list from the Author poll here,
I've made a comparison of the top six and bottom two between my poll
and the recent author poll.
	I sent my poll to 40 self-acknowledged Vance fans, with a list
of Vance's works, and asked them to rate the books they remembered well
as: excellent, good, fair, or poor.  I numbered these as 5, 3, 1, 0.
For reference my entire poll follows.  The average rating for my poll
was 2.77.  My poll results are only for books which had four or more
responses.  So I left out about 30 books:-)

 Jack Vance
 ----------              |  rating replies
 Dying Earth       + 20  |  4.71      7    Marune: Alastor 933
 Araminta Station  + 17  |  4.33      9    Lyonesse I: Suldrun's Garden
 Last Castle       + 12  |  4.25     12    Araminta Station
 Lyonesse          + 10  |  4.20     10    Emphyrio
 <Demon Princes>   + 10  |  4.11      9    The Killing Machine
 Cugel's Saga      +  8  |  4.00      8    The Dirdir
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
 Space Opera       -  3  |  0.50      4    The Five Gold Bands
 Grey Prince       -  3  |  0.20      5    Space Opera

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

rating    replies
 4.71        7    5555553         Marune: Alastor 933
 4.33        9    555555333       Lyonesse I: Suldrun's Garden
 4.25       12    555555555330    Araminta Station
 4.20       10    5555555331      Emphyrio
 4.11        9    555555331       The Killing Machine
 4.00        8    55555331        The Dirdir
 3.90       10    5555553330      The Dying Earth
 3.89        9    555553331       Lyonesse II: The Green Pearl
 3.75        8    55553331        Servants of the Wankh
 3.75        8    55553331        City of the Chasch
 3.73       11    55555553300     The Eyes of the Overworld
 3.63        8    55555310        The Book of Dreams
 3.50        8    55533331        The Pnume
 3.40        5    55331           Ecce and Old Earth
 3.33        6    555311          Trullion: Alastor 2262
 3.25        8    55533311        Star King
 3.13        8    55553110        The Face
 3.00        9    555333300       Cugel's Saga
 3.00        9    555333300       Rhialto the Marvelous
 3.00        6    553311          Wyst: Alastor 1716
 3.00        5    53331           The Complete Magnus Ridolph [c]
 2.88        8    55533110        The Palace of Love
 2.75        8    55333111        The Last Castle
 2.60       10    5333333111      Lyonesse III: Madouc
 2.60        5    53311           To Live Forever
 2.60        5    53311           Green Magic [c]
 2.50       10    5533331110      The Anome
 2.50        8    33333311        Maske: Thaery
 2.40        5    53310           The Blue World
 2.09       11    53333111111     The Languages of Pao
 2.00       10    5333311100      The Brave Free Men
 2.00        5    53110           The Galactic Effectuator [c]
 2.00        4    3311            The Augmented Agent [c]
 1.90       10    5333311000      The Asutra
 1.71        7    3331110         The Dragon Masters
 1.60        5    33110           Gold and Iron
 1.25        8    33111100        Showboat World
 1.22        9    333110000       Big Planet
 1.00        6    311100          The Grey Prince
 0.75        4    1110            The Houses of Iszm
 0.50        4    1100            The Five Gold Bands
 0.20        5    10000           Space Opera

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Xref: sparky rec.arts.sf.written:11228 rec.arts.sf.science:2558