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JohnSmithDev / ISFDB-Tools

Tools to query a local copy of the ISFDB database
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Work out what exactly a Locus Award finalist is, and implement that #5

Open JohnSmithDev opened 5 years ago

JohnSmithDev commented 5 years ago

Currently finalist related code cuts off at level/rank 9.

ISFDB lists beyond that e.g. 28 for Best SF 2018: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/award_category_year.cgi?375+2018

The Locus website seems to list the winner plus 9 runners up e.g. https://locusmag.com/2018/06/2018-locus-awards-winners/ (Perhaps the print mag shows more, and that's what ISFDB records? But I don't have an issue of Locus with award results)

I could only get SFADB to show me the winners, so I dunno what it thinks about runners up?

Wikipedia only shows the winners.

JohnSmithDev commented 5 years ago

NB: I suspect series books are more likely to show up the further down the finalists you go, so it would be good to cut off at the correct point. (Of course, it should be able to prove or disprove that hypothesis with my code ;-)

JohnSmithDev commented 5 years ago

Duh, I actually knew (part of) the answer to my question already, I just forgot...

Between the publishing of the recommended list (Feb-ish?) and the winner announcement (Summer?) they publish the finalists, in 2019 this was on May 8th: https://locusmag.com/2019/05/2019-locus-awards-finalists/

These haven't yet shown up in the dump, will document here when they do show up, and adjust the code accordingly.