ALL YOUR FAVORITE ARE BELONG TO US

Writing

I've selected my winners for the Crossing the Streams contest, but have not yet heard back from all of them, so, in the interim, I'm posting all the favorites you sent me: books, poems, short stories - there's even some non-fiction on the list! I had 60 entries in all, so there are plenty to choose from if you're looking for something new to read. Maybe you'll even find a new favorite! :)

Specific works with more than one nomination:

* Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
* Hounded, Kevin Hearne
* "The Raven," Edgar Allan Poe

Authors with more than one work nominated:

* The Lions of Al-Rassan, Guy Gavriel Kay
* Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay

* The works of Dr. Seuss
* Green Eggs and Ham, Dr. Seuss

* The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
* The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien

Works nominated:

* Elminster: The Making of a Mage, Ed Greenwood
* Neuromancer, William Gibson
* The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
* The works of H.P. Lovecraft
* On the Road, Jack Kerouac
* "Paradise Lost," John Milton
* "La Belle Dame sans Merci," John Keats
* Ready Player One, Ernest Cline
* The Animorphs novels, K.A. Applegate
* "Resume," Dorothy Parker
* The Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks
* "Red Nails," Robert E. Howard
* "Supposed Confessions of a Second-Rate Sensitive Mind," Alfred Lord Tennyson
* God's War, Kameron Hurley
* Boy's Life, Robert R. McCammon
* "The Hounds of Tindalos," by Frank Belknap Long
* Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne
* Twilight Falling, Paul S. Kemp
* "Mr. Hadj's Sunset Ride," Saladin Ahmed
* The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
* At the Queen's Command, Michael A. Stackpole
* Watership Down, Richard Adams
* "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," Robert Frost
* The New York Trilogy, Paul Auster
* Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O’Dell
* The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
* "The Odyssey," Homer
* Death's Heretic, James L. Sutter
* The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch
* Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
* Ashes, Ilsa Bick
* "Tam Lin"
* The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
* The Wheel of Time series, Robert Jordan
* The Crystal Shard, R.A. Salvatore
* "The Cremation of Sam McGee," Robert Service
* The Poisoner's Handbook, Deborah Blum
* AD&D Player's Handbook
* The Coldfire Trilogy, C.S. Friedman
* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
* American Gods, Neil Gaiman
* "Baucis and Philemon," Ovid
* The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
* Twelve, Jasper Kent
* Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
* The Dark is Rising, Susan Cooper
* My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George

I'm hoping to post the winners tomorrow, so check back (and check your email - the person I'm waiting for could be YOU)!

Everything Else

I think this post is plenty long enough, don't you? Heh.