5th Annual Book Tournament Finals: An Artificial Night VS The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack

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At last, at last, a thousand times at last!  Okay, really just about 15 or so, but isn’t that enough?  This tournament has been long, and hard-fought, but now we are here at the end, with only two undefeated books left to vie for the honor of being the best of 2010. 

We had steampunk awesome-title on one side, and urban fantasy intriguing-cover on the other.  Mano a … femina, these two competitors take to the field today to see whose shadow looms largest in the fading light of last year’s prose. 

Without further ado I present your finalists, hailing from The Forgotten Realms, The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder, and sweeping like an unstoppable wind from Westeros An Artificial Night by Seanan McGuire. 

If you haven’t voted on our Consolation round, it will be in play until Thursday, April 21.  This, the Finals round, will be open until Friday, April 22, at which time a new champion will be crowned.  So fans, pick up your weapons of persuasion and prepare to champion your fighters as they strive for victory in this final round.

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6 Comments

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   Trialia

   April 16, 2011 at 6:22 pm

   Wouldn’t it be a better layout to have the covers and the slots in the same order? Less confusing.

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   Ami

   April 17, 2011 at 10:51 am

   Er, actaully, yeah. I came from Mcguire’s twitter, to vote for Mcguire, and b/c I didn’t look closely before leaping, voted for Hodder. Mcguire’s cover was 2nd-I voted for the 2nd book. There are worse things, but still. I’m not a negatively intellegent person,(i like to think)so can I be the only one who’s done this?

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   Elena Nola

   April 17, 2011 at 12:16 pm

   all right, I flipped the pix, now i don’t want to hear anyone saying they got confused on a cookie-clear revote becuase of that.

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   Trialia

   April 18, 2011 at 4:26 pm

   Yay Seanan! You can do it

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   Laura

   April 21, 2011 at 2:46 pm

   Some of your flash popover ads make the page unusable on my iPhone, which doesnt support flash. Some pop up a “you don’t have flash oh noes!” popover window w/ a button to close it, which disables the underlying page until you do – and appears slowly, over the top of the page, after you may have scrolled down. Those are annoying but can be closed. Some don’t include a close button – can only reload page and pray you get luckier. The Skittles ad is one.

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     Debbie G.

     April 21, 2011 at 3:57 pm

     Yep… I had the same problem w/ the Skittles ad… read Seanan’s tweet at lunch, followed the link, and got stuck w/ a Skittles ad that wouldn’t play (and therefore wouldn’t go away) and which couldn’t be closed. Tried loading the page a couple of times and kept getting the Skittles ad. Tried again just now and actually got through sans silly Flash ad.

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