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The Locus poll

Still in London, back home mid-week, but I'm reminded by several people that the deadline for voting in the Locus...

The Locus poll -- comment #1 from Josh Jasper

Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:33:45 -0500

Huh. First reply didn't go through, let's try again:

I hope Dave Langford rememebred to say 'hi' from Rose and myself, as we just met up with him a few hours before you did.

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Posted April 14, 2007 9:33 AM by Josh Jasper

The Locus poll -- comment #2 from Dave Bell

Sat, 14 Apr 2007 15:33:29 -0500

I see the traffic is a bit heavy in New York tonight...

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Posted April 14, 2007 3:33 PM by Dave Bell

The Locus poll -- comment #3 from David Goldfarb

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 02:57:03 -0500

I've never voted in the Locus polls before, but I did this year specifically so that I could vote for Farthing.

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Posted April 15, 2007 2:57 AM by David Goldfarb

The Locus poll -- comment #4 from abi

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 08:35:28 -0500

Just London, not Scotland at all?

('cause with 8 hours' jet lag, I feel totally sociable. Not. But still.)

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Posted April 15, 2007 8:35 AM by abi

The Locus poll -- comment #5 from Peter S.

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 18:29:20 -0500

If you assume that around one in four of the natural candidates for nominees is a woman (which I estimated by looking at the Locus Recommended Reading List), I think that one in twenty female nominees is easily within the range of statistical fluctuation. I suspect nobody is going to believe this explanation, though. But statistically, you can't conclude anything from one year because of the small sample size ... somebody should calculate the multi-year statistics to see whether the percentage of females nominated for the Hugo is consistently substantially less than that on the Locus Recommended Reading List, or whether this year was an anomaly.

Of course, this leaves open the question of whether the Locus Recommended Reading List is biased. But let's not go there unless we get the statistics.

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Posted April 15, 2007 6:29 PM by Peter S.

The Locus poll -- comment #6 from Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:22:42 -0500

I have a growing number of issues with the Locus Recommended Reading List. Starting with the year that John M. Ford's story collection Heat of Fusion failed to make the list. Not to put too fine a point on it, and fond though I am of many individual Locus reviewers, I think their tastes and outlooks span the gamut from A to B.

Abi, alas, no Scotland. Would that I had a business excuse to visit my favorite country in the world.

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Posted April 15, 2007 8:22 PM by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

The Locus poll -- comment #7 from Faren Miller

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:50:28 -0500

Patrick: The Locus list is far from a smooth consensus. This year, I spent so much time battling (with *some* success) to get my favorites onto various parts of the list, I completely screwed up the accompanying comment piece. [Note to self: Don't do that again!]

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Posted April 16, 2007 10:50 AM by Faren Miller

The Locus poll -- comment #8 from abi

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:58:44 -0500

Patrick @6
Drat. I've only got a couple more months here, and then my membership in the Scottish Malt Whisky Society won't be nearly as much of a draw in persuading people to socialise with me.

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Posted April 16, 2007 11:58 AM by abi

The Locus poll -- comment #9 from Fragano Ledgister

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:00:33 -0500

Abi: You could, of course, just post me some Laphroaig. All donations of single malts gratefully accepted (finals in three weeks, last regular essays this week, headache in 3...2...1...).

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Posted April 18, 2007 11:00 PM by Fragano Ledgister