Second annual Fantasybookspot Tournament

For the full announcement, go here.

Anyone who has frequented FBS around this time of the last year, is no stranger to the annual tournaments held there. Each year the books and, more importantly, those people that have read them, duke it out publicly to see who holds the top honors for the year. The best book of the year should be able to stand tall on a pile of beaten books proudly wearing its bloody nose as a badge of honor. Like last year, FBS will be holding two tournaments. There will be a competition for books released in 2007 with 64 entrants. There will also be a competition for some of the classic books in the field with 32 entrants. Each round of the competition will take place over a designated number of days. At the end of each round in the tournament a winner will be determined with the bruised and bloodied moving to the next round and the broken will be left behind to lick their wounds.

The tournament schedule:

All Time Tournament

3/9 – 3/15 – 1st Round
3/16 – 3/22 – 2nd Round
3/23 – 3/29 – Quarterfinal Round
3/30 – 4/5 – Semifinals
4/6 – 4/12 – Championship

2007 Releases Tournament

3/9 – 3/11 – 1st round
3/12 – 3/15 – 2nd round
3/16 – 3/22 – Sweet 16
3/23 – 3/29 – Elite 8
3/30 – 4/5 – Final Four
4/6 – 4/12 – Championship

Winner announced on 4/13

Nominations include:

2007 Tournament

A Betrayal in Winter by Daniel Abraham
Acacia by David Anthony Durham
Axis by Robert Charles Wilson
Black Man/Thirteen by Richard Morgan
Bone Song by John Meaney
Brasyl by Ian McDonald
Butcher Bird by Richard Kadrey
Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge
Dragon Outcast by EE Knight
Dragons of the Highlord Skies by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
Empre of Ivory by Naomi Novik
Fatal Revenant by Stephen Donaldson
Flora Segunda by Ysabeau Wilce
Grey by Jon Armstrong
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
Ice by Valdimir Sorokin
Ilario by Mary Gentle
Ink by Hal Duncan
Interfictions
Jamestown by Matthew Sharpe
Keeping It Real by Justina Robson
Mainspring by Jay Lake
Making Money by Terry Pratchett
Mistborn: Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson
Music of Razors by Cameron Rogers
Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff
Nova Swing by M John Harrison
One for Sorrow by Chris Barzak
Orphans Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice by Catherynne M. Valente
Pirate Freedom by Gene Wolfe
Postsingular by Rudy Rucker
Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin
Ragamuffin by Tobias Buckell
Reaper’s Gale by Steven Erikson
Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch
Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories by Elizabeth Hand
Shadowplay by Tad Williams
Shadowstorm by Paul S Kemp
Silverfish by Dave Lapham
Spaceman Blues: A Love Song by Brian Francis Slattery
Spook Country by William Gibson
Territory by Emma Bull
The Best of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet
The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
The Book of Joby by Mark J. Ferrari
The Dark River by John Twelve Hawks
The Dreaming Void by Peter F. Hamilton
The Electric Church by Jeff Somers
The Last Colony by John Scalzi
The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate by Ted Chiang
The Metatemporal Detective by Michael Moorcock
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
The Orc King by R.A. Salvatore
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
The Spiral Labyrinth by Matthew Hughes
The Terror by Dan Simmons
The Traitor by Michael Cisco
The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon
Titans of Chaos by John C. Wright
Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
Under My Roof by Nick Mamatas
White Night by Jim Butcher
Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay

All-time Tournament

5th Head Cerberus by Gene Wolfe
A Case of Conscience by James Blish
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick
Altered Carbon by Richard K Morgan
Canticle of Lebowitz by Walter Miller
Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Gateway (Heechee) by Frederick Pohl
Golden Compass (His Dark Materials) by Phillip Pullman
Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K LeGuin
Little Big by Jonathan Crowley
Lord of the Light by Roger Zelazny
Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien
Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
More Then Human by Theodore Sturgeon
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke
Replay by Ken Grimwood
Sandman by Neil Gaiman
Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Stars my Destination by Alfred Bester
Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
The Einstein Intersection by Samuel Delaney
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
The Land of Laughs by Jonathan Carroll
The Physiognomy by Jeffrey Ford
The Warhound and the Worlds Pain by Michael Moorcock
Watchmen by Alan Moore
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Wizards First Rule by Terry Goodkind
Worm Ourboros by E R Eddison

So are you up for the challenge? Are you ready to defend your picks? Go sign up here and participate!