Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Forums

So what's happening here is a result of the genre categorization in our DB.  We tag each book as SF, F, or H for filtering and sorting.  Some books get tagged across those 3 if they fit more than one category.  The genre tags are completely separate from the awards so for Job, an apocalyptic sf book, it will only show for SF challenges despite it's Locus Fantasy win.  I've flagged it as fantasy now too so you'll see it if you try again.  The Jenifer Morgue books were tagged as horror but are now tagged as fantasy too.

I'm certain that there will be many more like this since the genres overlap frequently in the awards and I'm sure we have more books that are mis categorized.  We'll deal with them as they come up.  Thanks JS!

These have been updated in our database to Fantasy.

Nymeria - 2014-01-19 9:08 AM The book I tried to add is "An Autumn War" by Daniel Abraham - where can I see how a book is tagged? Searching for it in the database I see information as Author, Publisher, ratings and so on, and there are sub-genre menus for me to choose from, but nothing about the classification of the book itself. Apologies for my newbie questions, I'm still trying to get my bearings around here...

The Long Price Quartet was incorrectly tagged as SF but has been corrected now.

The genre classification is an internal tag that does not display on the site anywhere.  It's used or sorting and filtering etc.  The most obvious use is for the reading lists so members can have separate SF/F/H reading lists.

Please, no apologies!  There's a lot going on on this site so questions are always welcome.  It tells us you care and helps us to make improvements and correct errors etc.  Keep 'em coming!

One of the side-effects of the RYO is that we're finding a lot of books that were tagged wrong when they went into our DB.  (It's not always easy to identify a book you haven't read yourself etc. and many times a book could go either way.)  Now I'm generally a glass is half full guy so I look at this as a good thing since we can improve the accuracy of our data which is very important to us.  So even though it's a pain in the keister it's a good exercise and we appreciate you all pointing out the problems as you find them.

Nymeria - 2014-01-19 1:57 PM Thank you Administrator! I understand how such a complex and multi-layered site could generate unforeseen problems, and I'm pleasantly amazed at the speed at which they are addressed! **respectful bow**

Aw shucks!  Twern't nothin'.  We're just a teensy bit obsessed with making WWEnd the best we can.  It's important to us that our members feel like this site is theirs too and that we listen and appreciate them being here.  When I think about what we could do if we didn't have pesky day jobs getting in the way it makes me want to cry ;(

Done and thanks!