<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Well NESFAn Reading Groupies, the people (who were invited to reply) have spoken and the two books chosen for future NESFA reading group discussions are:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">September 6th, Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone</div><div class="">October 4th, Red Moon by Kim Stanley Robinson</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It is my hope that this process has led to fiction without friction. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In September we’ll choose four more books. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The below screenshot shows the number of votes by preference that each book received. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">SurveyMonkey awarded 8 points for every #1 preference vote that a book received, 7 points for every #2 vote, 6 points for every #3 vote, etc…, then it totaled the weighted response points each book received, and divided that total by the number of respondents. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="C404C076-DF11-47CC-B082-022C3A1BF2DC" width="320" height="237" src="cid:8073FC1B-975F-4E16-9E0A-6E3DFC0ECF85" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> </div><br class=""><div class="">
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