Full contest rules: https://open.substack.com/pub/astralcodexten/p/book-review-contest-rules-2024
I'll keep adding links to the finalists as they're posted on Substack. At the end of the contest, I expect that Scott will reveal whether he is the author of any of the finalists.
For context, Scott submitted two entries last year. One of them was a finalist and would have won first place in the contest, except that Scott decided it was in poor taste to win his own contest.
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3.00Scott didn't submit an entry at all this year:
https://open.substack.com/pub/astralcodexten/p/book-review-contest-2024-winners
#14 The Ballad of the White Horse is missing
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-book-review-the-ballad-of-the
@Wotton Ah, I should have mentioned, I left that out on purpose after reading Scott's comment critiquing it. Up until that point, it seemed like there was a good chance he wrote it.
But if you still want me to add it, I will.
@traders I'm leaving out #12: The Pale King, unless someone insists on having it. There are enough biographical clues to show that it's probably not by Scott.
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/open-thread-338
Scott says he didn't write the Don Juan review