brin-l-books stats

[William T Goodall]

Just to make things even more exciting I have calculated this table 
using a simple trimmed mean where a single 'best' and a single 'worst' 
rating are excluded and the remainder averaged. Since I'm throwing away 
two scores for each book each book has to be rated a minimum of five 
times rather than three.

There are now 1416 book ratings by 23 users. If you forgot where it 
was:-

http://books.scattersoft.com
So this is the SF top ten...
Hyperion,       Dan     Simmons 1
Foundation,     Isaac   Asimov  =2
Foundation and Empire,  Isaac   Asimov  =2
Second Foundation,      Isaac   Asimov  =2
Slaughterhouse-Five,    Kurt    Vonnegut        =3
The Left Hand of Darkness,      Ursula K        Le Guin =3
Dune,   Frank   Herbert =4
Gateway,        Frederik        Pohl    =4
The Fall of Hyperion,   Dan     Simmons =4
A Canticle for Leibowitz,       Walter M        Miller  =5
A Deepness in the Sky,  Vernor  Vinge   =5
The Man in the High Castle,     Philip K        Dick    =5
A Fire upon the Deep,   Vernor  Vinge   6
Ringworld,      Larry   Niven   7
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress,   Robert A        Heinlein        =8
To Your Scattered Bodies, Go    Philip Jose     Farmer  =8
Blood Music,    Greg    Bear     9
Cryptonomicon,  Neal    Stephenson      =10
Startide Rising,        David   Brin    =10
The Reality Dysfunction,        Peter F Hamilton        =10
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William T Goodall
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