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justifiedsinner
Posted 2014-02-05 1:34 PM (#6361 - in reply to #6360)
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Yes, all mine were from the Guardian list that I have on my TBR. Easton Press Masterpieces of Science also has a few; Verne, Lem, Zamyatin.
I hadn't considered Vathek but I see it was originally French. I had my hopes for Michel Faber, but although he is Dutch I believe he writes in English.
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daxxh
Posted 2014-02-05 2:24 PM (#6363 - in reply to #6361)
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I read At the Mouth of the River of Bees by Kij Johnson before I signed up for the 2013 WoGF last year. It is an EXCELLENT short story collection, if some of you are hunting for books to fill that challenge and haven't read it.

I have signed up for too many challenges (eleven), but have managed to get the number of books down to 39 to complete them all. My problem is sticking to that list. I keep finding new books to read that either don't fit any challenge or will only count for one challenge. The Read the Sequel Challenge, which is my challenge, ended up being the most difficult to find books for that will fulfill more than one challenge.

I must stick to the list. I must stick to the list. I must stick to the list.
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Rhondak101
Posted 2014-02-05 3:01 PM (#6365 - in reply to #6205)
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Ursula K. Le Guin identifies herself as a socialist.

Cicely Hamilton

And, I found this interesting bit:

Lilith Lorraine, whose real name was Mary M. Wright, was a poet, Texas crime reporter, and early feminist utopian; she ended up with an FBI file because of her socialist views. She chose the pen name Lilith in honor of a fellow “troublemaker,” i.e., the Biblical Adam’s first wife. 

I don't know how many of Lorriane's books are in print and available. 

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Rhondak101
Posted 2014-02-06 6:24 PM (#6375 - in reply to #6209)
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Also Joanna Russ identified herself as a socialist feminist.
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Engelbrecht
Posted 2014-02-07 10:58 PM (#6392 - in reply to #6104)
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I've posted a long list of Short Fiction works in the WWE db over in the thread for that challenge.  I'll work on doing the same for translated works to help those working on that challenge.  Translated works are some of the most interesting, so I'm really excited about this challenge! 
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Posted 2014-02-07 11:25 PM (#6394 - in reply to #6392)
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Engelbrecht - 2014-02-07 10:58 PM I've posted a long list of Short Fiction works in the WWE db over in the thread for that challenge.  I'll work on doing the same for translated works to help those working on that challenge.  Translated works are some of the most interesting, so I'm really excited about this challenge! 

That's a great list you made, thanks!  Like the short fiction list, if you get us a list of all the books that are translated works we'll make an official list out of them.  I've always wondered how many translated works we had in the DB.  I'm only familiar with a handful and I'm sure this will be really helpful for the whole community.  And it always seems easier to build on a known list so we'll make a real effort to expand on it from there.

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FeminineFantastique
Posted 2014-02-20 11:27 PM (#6526 - in reply to #6104)
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I was thinking about setting up a public challenge for LGBT spec fic authors, but I'm finding the process a little intimidating - host blog? What's entailed in being a host? Is it, like, a lot of responsibility? *confused*
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Posted 2014-02-21 12:00 AM (#6528 - in reply to #6526)
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FeminineFantastique - 2014-02-20 11:27 PM I was thinking about setting up a public challenge for LGBT spec fic authors, but I'm finding the process a little intimidating - host blog? What's entailed in being a host? Is it, like, a lot of responsibility? *confused*

Hi FemFan, welcome to WWEnd!  Happy to have you aboard.

Setting up a challenge is really easy.  All you have to do is create a theme, which you've already got, explain the goals and rules for the challenge like how many books, how many reviews (if any) and how long you want the challenge to last (3, 6 or 12 months etc.).  You'll want to make a banner for you challenge too to draw the folks in and also give participants something they can post on their blogs etc.  I can help with that if you like or one of our other members can jump in to help too.  The last thing is to create a thread for your challenge where folks can discuss authors and books etc. and where you can answer any questions that come up.

That's the basics of a RYO challenge.  Your particular challenge may need a little further work/guidance on your part to help people get going.  I'm sure we have some (many?) LGBT authors on WWEnd but we don't track that info so there's no way for us to tell who the qualifying authors might me.  You'll want to post a list of recommended authors or point people to some off site resources where they can find that info.  We can add any traditionally published authors your challenge readers request though we've had precious little time to do much of that lately so delays are inevitable.  (We have a solution in the works but 60hr work weeks are making Dave a dull boy.)

I don't think it will be a lot of responsibility beyond that. People will look to you for a few answers and author recs etc. but you'll have other members who will pitch in to help each other out.

I say go for it!  I think if you look around you'll find most of our challenge hosts are having a good time with it.  We're all here to help in whatever way we can.

 

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FeminineFantastique
Posted 2014-02-21 12:21 AM (#6530 - in reply to #6104)
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Thanks for all the info! I will need help with that banner, alas. It's been many moons since I've dabbled with Gimp or Photoshop. As far as finding authors is concerned, the Lambda Awards is a good place to start, which I will post in the relevant thread once this baby is created.

I'll go ahead and set it up. I hope no one takes issue with the fact that I'm not LGBT. It just seemed relevant and like it should be there, y'know?
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DrNefario
Posted 2014-04-07 7:25 AM (#6859 - in reply to #6104)
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Although I was intending to get the maximum leverage out of my existing unread book pile, I've just worked out that I've already bought at least ten books with an eye on the challenges. One was mostly unavoidable - it would have been exceptionally fortunate if my random pick for the WoGF was an author I already owned - but really I just can't help myself.

At least one of them - Big Machine by Victor LaValle - is not even going to end up being used. I bought it as a Shirley Jackson winner, and ended up buying and reading Generation Loss by Elizabeth Hand instead.

Never mind.
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ManyMoons
Posted 2014-04-11 8:25 AM (#7011 - in reply to #6104)
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How do you remove yourself from a challenge, or at least, not get any email notifications about it?
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Posted 2014-04-11 10:52 AM (#7016 - in reply to #6104)
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I don't get any email notifications about anything. Is that a forum setting? (Control Panel, at the top of this page.)
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DrNefario
Posted 2014-06-16 7:40 AM (#7949 - in reply to #6104)
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I was slightly ahead of schedule on my 10 challenges, having passed the half-way point in just 5 months. As a reward for all my hard work, I decided to join 2 more.

I've signed up for Pick'n'Mix, which I'm planning to treat as a List version of the 12 Awards challenge - ie. 12 books from 12 different Lists - and Fantasia, which is really just an excuse for me to read some fantasy and still get to count it somewhere. I'm only counting epic/heroic/sword-and-sorcery style fantasy, the kind which used to make up quite a lot of my reading but which has been on the backburner while I've been doing challenges for the last couple of years. It ought to be set in a secondary world, with mediaeval technology and where it is possible for your day job to be "wizard".

I'm hoping the Pick'n'Mix will be more-or-less free, based on the books I was already planning to read, and the Fantasia challenge will not add too many. My previous excursions off-list have largely been books that would fit Fantasia. I need to do some work on my spreadsheet, though.
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DrNefario
Posted 2014-06-17 7:53 AM (#7960 - in reply to #6104)
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The results are in: Pick'n'Mix is indeed free. I've already read 10 of them, and have 4 more possibilities for the last 2 slots.

Fantasia looks like it's going to cost me at least one additional book, but I pretty much already have it picked out.
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ManyMoons
Posted 2014-06-17 11:18 AM (#7963 - in reply to #6104)
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I've slowed up due to illness and surgery, but almost have one challenge completed (hopefully finished this month). Many of my books afterwards actually fit multiple challenges and help me to find new-to-me authors as well as knock down my TBR list. Will I complete all of my challenges? That's 6 months away. I am fairly confident that I can eventually meet all of them.
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Posted 2014-07-16 7:39 AM (#8199 - in reply to #6104)
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I've just finished my second challenge, out of 12, and am one book from completing 2 others. I've read 31 books from a list of 51, leaving me with 20 to read. That sounds like great progress, but 20 books in 5 months is still 4 books a month, which is quite hard going when there are other things I want to read.
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Posted 2015-01-06 10:40 PM (#9190 - in reply to #6104)
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I've posted a 2015 version of:

All Books Read in 2015 - This has an outrageous number of books as a "goal", but it's not a challenge, it's just a place to track all the books you read this calendar year, so the number is high to leave plenty of room for all of them.

 



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rretzler
Posted 2019-01-03 12:28 AM (#19534 - in reply to #6104)
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I'm sure this has been asked and answered previously - I apologize, but its late and I'm tired, and I'm hoping some kind person will just answer my question. Last year for the first time, I signed up for several RYO challenges and was religiously updating my books in WWE. I believe I completed all of the several challenges I signed up for and was looking forward to seeing my RYO page with all of the slots completed! However, I've been so busy with family over the holidays and today was the first chance in almost a month that I've had a chance to login to the site. While I find that I can now sign up for brand new 2019 challenges, I was really looking forward to seeing my 2018 achievement! Is there anywhere I can go to do this, or are the 2018 RYO's gone forever?
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Posted 2019-01-03 12:40 AM (#19535 - in reply to #19534)
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rretzler - 2019-01-03 5:28 PM
While I find that I can now sign up for brand new 2019 challenges, I was really looking forward to seeing my 2018 achievement! Is there anywhere I can go to do this, or are the 2018 RYO's gone forever?

First, the record of your Challenges is still there. So you can rest easy about that.

At the bottom of the RYO Challenge main page is a link "Click to view past challenges". Clicking on that will expand a list of past Challenge banners, but it only goes back 40-some Challenges. The older ones don't show right now. But you can see the ones you've just completed.

The new version of the website will have the ability to view all your past Challenge results. I'm not sure what the timeline is for the golive of the new website; there have been various things (work-wise and personal life-wise) which the Site Admins have had to deal with getting in the way of completing the overhaul. But it's coming.

My advice would be to just rock on with your 2019 Challenges for right now. At some point, you will be able to see your past Challenge results in My World. 

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