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| 1) A People's Future of the United States |
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3 | 9.09% |
| 2) The African Queen |
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9 | 27.27% |
| 3) Club Dumas Arturo Perez-Reverte |
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9 | 27.27% |
| 4) Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton |
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3 | 9.09% |
| 5) Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck |
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9 | 27.27% |
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As always, please only vote if you're considering participating -- this poll functions as an interest check. You can vote for more than one candidate. If you have another suggestion, make a post about it. 1) A People's Future of the United States quote:In these tumultuous times, in our deeply divided country, many people are angry, frightened, and hurting. Knowing that imagining a brighter tomorrow has always been an act of resistance, editors Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams invited an extraordinarily talented group of writers to share stories that explore new forms of freedom, love, and justice. They asked for narratives that would challenge oppressive American myths, release us from the chokehold of our history, and give us new futures to believe in. 2) The African Queen quote:Set in German Southwest Africa at the beginning of World War I, this is a story of love and adventure between two English castaways. Rose, a middle-class missionary's sister, and Charlie, a cockney mechanic at a mine, have both been displaced by the war. The unlikely pair decide to sail down an "unnavigable" river in a broken-down launch, The African Queen, to try and sink a German patrol boat. 3) Club Dumas Arturo Perez-Reverte quote:Fallen angels, satanic manuals, and a passion for the works of Raphael Sabatini and Alexandre Dumas among others--this is the stuff of Spanish author Arturo Pérez-Reverte's engrossing novel The Club Dumas. Set in a world of antiquarian booksellers where dealers would gladly betray their own mothers to get their hands on a rare volume, The Club Dumas is a thinking person's thriller: in addition to a riveting plot, the book is full of intriguing details that range from the working habits of Alexandre Dumas to how one might go about forging a 17th-century text. Woven through these meditations is enough murder, sex, and the occult to keep both the hero, Lucas Corso, and the reader hopping. 4) Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton quote:It says on the hardcover jacket copy “You have never read a book like Tooth and Claw” which is absolutely untrue, because if you have read Anthony Trollope’s Framley Parsonage you have read a book very much like Tooth and Claw except that Trollope was under the mistaken impression that he was writing about human beings. I had the idea for Tooth and Claw when I was simultaneously reading both Trollope and a fantasy book about dragons, and my husband asked me a question about the former and I answered about the latter, and I suddenly realized in a flash that Trollope made much more sense if the characters were dragons. 5) Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck quote:The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck (Lo$)[1] is a serial of 12 comic book stories written and drawn by Don Rosa, lettered by Todd Klein (American editions),[2] first published by the Danish publisher Egmont in the magazine Anders And & Co. from 1992–94 and later in English in Uncle Scrooge #285 through #296 (1994–96). The stories chronicle the in-universe biography of Scrooge McDuck before his introduction in 1947. The stories were later collected and published together in a single volume. Rosa later published additional stories which expanded on Scrooge's biography. These were released as The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Companion.
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May 24, 2020 20:53
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Validated scoring for this month's entries, per Alloy's request:
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May 25, 2020 14:47
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Discendo Vox posted:Validated scoring for this month's entries, per Alloy's request: hail Satan
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May 25, 2020 15:30
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Surprising levels of horniness for Scrooge there. Never trust a duck, I suppose.
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May 25, 2020 18:30
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anilEhilated posted:Surprising levels of horniness for Scrooge there. Never trust a duck, I suppose. It makes sense when you think about it. To spell out some of the factors in words: Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck will probably end up costing around $40 for both volumes, maybe a little more depending on which format you buy & from where. African Queen is in the public domain and free, at least in Canada : https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20180238 Unfortunately the Tor.com free download offer for Tooth and Claw has expired.
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May 25, 2020 20:19
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Unfortunately the Tor.com free download offer for Tooth and Claw has expired. "Unfortunately"
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May 25, 2020 23:54
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Discendo Vox posted:Validated scoring for this month's entries, per Alloy's request: goodreads the jrpg
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May 29, 2020 00:53
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I talked too much in the chat thread so i'm going to do this i voted for club dumbass if you wanna put me on the chart
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May 31, 2020 02:25
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the one that sounds most interesting is the Dumas club. I can't guarantee that I can get my hands on it in time, but it got my vote nonetheless
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May 31, 2020 17:27
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Ok, It'll be African Queen because we have a three way tie and the other two candidates cost money whereas AQ should be available as a free download. Other candidates are quite likely to show up in future polls! I'll get a thread up tonight or tomorrow.
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