SFF Meta is a new meta-critic site for sci-fi and fantasy, and it has the potential to be my new favourite time-waster. It’s easy to navigate, covers the kind of books I like, and just a quick browse has given me half a dozen titles to go buy off Amazon.
Downsides? Well, so far each book only has a few reviews and they’re drawn from other sites. SFF Meta lacks user-generated content. I’m really hoping this accounts for such horrors as The Court of the Air being on the 2007 ‘low scoring’ list, and The Gathering Storm scoring 84/100, when tbh I would quite gladly throw The Wheel of Time series onto a bonfire.
Anyway, I’d like to see SFF Meta open up their site to user reviews instead of just drawing them from elsewhere. It’s a neat idea and even I of so little time and so much apathy would contribute. Like any good community it would moderate itself and the seriously good fiction would rise to the top.
Hello,
I am the owner of SFFMeta. Thanks for your comments.
User reviews are something that I consider in the future. It would be implemented as a dual scoring system, so there would be an average critic score and then an average user scores. I guess separate best of the year and etc lists could be implements.
We have plans to add more sources for the reviews, it should help to remove anomalies generated by a very small sample of reviews.
The Gathering Storm was written by Brandon Sanderson, and got better reviews than the latest books by Jordan… Thinking of picking up the series where i left it around book 9 I think to see what finally happens…