BestSFBooks
Consumer and social
book discovery
SHOW HN2011
78points
25comments
#150of 1,097 in 2011
Top 14%of 2011 by points
How HN took it
LovedMost comments that take a side are positive
8 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 0 critical, out of 16 comments about the project. Thread score +0.43.
Idea: 4 for, 0 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful way to find good new SF/fantasy books
From 3 comments
This is awesome - I've been searching for somewhere to find good new SF/Fantasy for a while that doesn't just entail blindly searching Amazon.
javanix on HNThis fairly reeks of awesome. If the ones I don't recognize are as great as the ones I do, I'd say you have a damn fine site there!
phrotoma on HNThis is really, really fantastic. Been a huge sf/f reader my whole life (collect 1sts of lots of favorite authors... hovering around 6000 now). I basically used to do this…
2mur on HN
Fantastic and simple site
From 2 comments
This is fantastic! Perfectly simple and useful. Only glitch I've run into so far is that the search function doesn't work. As far as I can tell, there's no type="submit" for the…
gigawatt on HNWell done, you! I like the site a lot, bookmarked.
peapicker on HN
Objections
Search does nothing when no match is found
From 2 comments
This is fantastic! Perfectly simple and useful. Only glitch I've run into so far is that the search function doesn't work. As far as I can tell, there's no type="submit" for the…
gigawatt on HNHello. That is because it is a auto-complete search field. If you search for something that does not exist, nothing will happen. If you type for example "Krak", you will get…
jogrimst on HN
Bias toward recent SF
From 1 comment
There seems to be a really heavy bias towards relatively new SF; is this because there are more awards now than there used to be, or because you only have data going so far back?
dougws on HN
Nominations counted same as wins
From 1 comment
Cool! Very nice. I'm sort of slowly working my way through the double winners of the Hugo and Nebula (kind of a lifetime goal, I guess). It took me a while to find the "Hall of…
100k on HN
Requests
Add community voting and rankings
From 1 comment
OK, I have to admit at first I thought there was something wrong with the site because I didn't recognize enough books... but after reading some excerpts of books off the lists,…
natbro on HN
Show book excerpts
From 2 comments
OK, I have to admit at first I thought there was something wrong with the site because I didn't recognize enough books... but after reading some excerpts of books off the lists,…
natbro on HNThis is fantastic. I think you should follow natbro's lead on a few things - allow disquss commenting and show excerpts of the book. Also I have a series to add: Harry…
md1515 on HN
Add commenting via Disqus or Facebook
From 2 comments
OK, I have to admit at first I thought there was something wrong with the site because I didn't recognize enough books... but after reading some excerpts of books off the lists,…
natbro on HNThis is fantastic. I think you should follow natbro's lead on a few things - allow disquss commenting and show excerpts of the book. Also I have a series to add: Harry…
md1515 on HN
Add Audible links
From 1 comment
I like it. One suggestion or request really however. Can you add a link to Audible in addition to amazon & the kindle for us audiobook fans?
Urgo on HN
Link to library availability
From 1 comment
A hook into Google book library reference 'available at your local library' would be awsome.
sammyo on HN
Questions
Why are newer books weighted so heavily?
From 1 comment
There seems to be a really heavy bias towards relatively new SF; is this because there are more awards now than there used to be, or because you only have data going so far back?
dougws on HN
Alternatives named
worldswithoutend.com
From 1 comment
Awesome job. It is similar to existing https://www.worldswithoutend.com/
adamzochowski on HN
thegreatestbooks.org
From 1 comment
looks awesome! I wrote a similar site that aggregates the general fiction and non-fiction based on how many awards and lists they are on. http://thegreatestbooks.org I built it…
wtf242 on HN