SPSFC3 Semifinalist Announcement for the Peripheral Prospectors

Helloooo everyone! After months of reading and a lot of amazing discussion about our allocation, we are finally ready to announce our semi-finalists!!

Once again thank you to my wonderful team mates for your efforts and input! I am thrilled that we have OVER TWENTY FULL book reviews to share from round one! I never could have asked for better people or more engaged readers and I think these folks all deserve a huge round of thanks for bringing so much attention to these books!!

Do please check out our hub page and everyone’s reviews so far🚀

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Next, another big thank you to our round one authors! Slush is hard on everyone and I sincerely appreciate you all for being good natured about our choices and feedback. We had an excellent group of books and none of this was easy!

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Next up, let’s review the quarterfinalists that we chose to read and review. Each book got at least three full reviews and between 4-6 full reads.

These are six wonderfully presented books with gorgeous covers and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend any of them. There are no bad books in this lot and I think we really lucked out 😍

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Anyway…. Here Are the Scores

6th: Reality Check by Dave McCreery

• Scores, 4 Total: 6 – 5.5 – 6 – 6
• Average: 5.88

5th: The Prism Effect by J. Wint

• Scores, 5 Total: 7 – 6.5 – 6 – 5.5 – 6
• Average: 6.20

4th: To Flail Against Infinity by JP Valentine

• Scores, 4 Total: 7.5 – 7 – 7 – 6.5
• Average: 7

3rd: Pallas Lost by Jake Morrison

*This is our “Senlin Net” book!

If another team wished to steal it as a semifinalist, they could have. Since this didn’t occur, thanks to Jake for being a good sport!

• Scores, 6 total: 7.5 – 6 – 8 – 7 – 7.5 – 6.5
• Average: 7.08

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So …

Congrats to our semi-finalists! We are sending these two books on to the next round!

Semifinalist #2: Replacement by Jordan Rivet

• Scores, 6 total: 8 – 7 – 8.5 – 7 – 8 – 7.5
• Average: 7.67

Semifinalist #1: Kenai by Dave Dobson

• Scores, 5 total: 9 – 8 – 6.5 – 8.5 – 8
• Average: 8.00

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Once again don’t forget to check out the hub page for everyone’s individual reviews! We will start posting updates again in February when the semifinal round is underway!