Dune World in 1964 uses the stats for
Dune.
Wheel of Time (series) in 2014 uses the stats for
the
first in the series. (Perhaps
the
final volume might be a better pick - as of late May 2017, it's at
94k ratings.)
What happened between 1964 and 1965 such that every finalist in the former
has more ratings than every finalist in the latter? A (presumably)
UK-centric
voter base might account for some of the jump, but surely not all?
Revisiting the
Hugos has a few suggestions for what could have been more popular
finalists.
This chart is a bit of a mess because (as far as I can tell) ISFDB doesn't record
the year the Retro Hugos apply to, just the year they were awarded, which
could be 50, 75 or 100 years difference.
It wouldn't be impossible to either
(a) have some hard-coded hacks with the "real" years and/or (b) use the
first publication date of the nominated books to work out the "real" year,
but right now this isn't something I'm interested in doing.
The Sword in the Stone in 2014/1939 is probably under-reported,
as it appears in the omnibus
The
Once and Future King, which has just under 90k ratings as of May 2019.
This is the publication which provides the ratings count for The Ill-Made Knight in 2016/1941,
as seemingly no stand-alone
edition of that volume with an ISBN has ever been published, and so
these charts have to fall back onto the omnibus edition in the absence of any
other option.
1996 finalist/1945 published Red Sun of Danger aka Danger Planet has -
as of August 2020 - messy data on Goodreads that cause it to not be matched
up via the API, and whilst this isn't unusual, it's a bit more involved than
similar issues I've encountered whilst working on this project, which I've
been able to fix myself via Goodreads librarian privileges. As of August
2020, it has 6 ratings for the Red Sun of Danger title, and 32 for the
Danger Planet incarnation, so 38 ratings overall.
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