Jade Pagoda awards

The Annual Jade Pagoda Awards

Jade Pagoda is an online group for discussion of the Doctor Who books. Since 2000, we have held annual Awards for the best (and the worst) Who or Who-related books of the year. The precise rules and awards have changed over the years (so blank squares indicate the category did not exist that year), but this page presents a summary of the results. You might also want to check out the online Doctor Who Novel Rankings.

Award	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Best book	The Turing Test	Grimm Reality	Camera Obscura	The Cabinet of Light	Of the City of the Saved...	Fear Itself	Erasing Sherlock	Sick Building
Worst book		Escape Velocity	Warmonger	The Domino Effect	Sometime Never...	Island of Death	insufficient votes
Best short story			Faction Hollywood Entry: "Samurai Film" (The Book of the War)	"A Rag and a Bone" by Daniel O'Mahony (Myth Makers Presents: Essentials)	"A Rose by Any Other Name" by Jim Mortimore (Short Trips: Life Science)	"What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow" by Steven Moffat (Annual 2006)	"Gone Fishing" by Ben Aaronovitch (Short Trips: Time Signature)
Best anthology			The Book of the War	Myth Makers Presents: Essentials	Myth Makers #14	Annual 2006	Collected Works
Best returning author	Paul Leonard	Lance Parkin	Lloyd Rose	Kate Orman	Martin Day	Lance Parkin	Kelly Hale
Best new author	Jonathan Morris	Lloyd Rose	Paul Ebbs	Mark Chadbourn	Philip Purser-Hallard	Nick Wallace	Steven Kitson
Best author					Philip Purser-Hallard
Best original character or concept	The amnesiac Doctor	Miranda in Father Time	The Book of the Still	Chick Peters as the narrator in Blue Box	tie: Laska Darnell in The Sleep of Reason; The Clockwork Woman; the war between alternate universes in The Warlords of Utopia	The Professional and other Professionals in Fear Itself	The narrator of Erasing Sherlock
Best returning character or concept	The Brigadier in The Shadows of Avalon	The man with the rosette in The Adventuress of Henrietta Street	Faction Paradox in The Book of the War	The Doctor as described by others in The Cabinet of Light	The City of the Saved in Of the City of the Saved...	Fitz in Fear Itself	Sherlock Holmes in Erasing Sherlock
Most memorable passage	The Doctor building a replacement TARDIS in The Shadows of Avalon	The man with the rosette meets the Doctor in The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (p 230-1)	Anji rings Dave's parents in Time Zero (p16-7) ['Best' fanwank] The Doctor handing over his heart to the travelling circus in Camera Obscura	Chapter 0, the first minute and Inangela watches "The Muppets", in This Town will Never Let Us Go (p 3-4)	Chapter 1 of The Sleep of Reason	Valletti's homecoming in Fear Itself (p 272-274)	Holmes profiles a paedophile serial killer in Erasing Sherlock (p 21-22)
Worst passage		[Most egregious fanwank] Control in Escape Velocity			tie: epilogue of Sometime Never... in which Soul becomes a familiar figure; Cat's eschatological beliefs in Companion Piece (p 47); exploding breasts in Synthespians™ (p 247)	Opening of Spiral Scratch (p 1-24)	insufficient nominations
Best cover		Father Time	Mad Dogs and Englishmen	Reckless Engineering	The Warlords of Utopia	Fear Itself	AHistory
Lifetime achievement award	The Also People	Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks	The Dying Days	Damaged Goods	Dead Romance	Remembrance of the Daleks	Transit	Love and War
Best non-fiction book	Regeneration		The Dalek Survival Guide	Enlightenment #118	About Time vol. 3	tie: About Time vol. 4; About Time vol. 5	About Time 1	Time and Relative Dissertations in Space: Critical Perspectives on Doctor Who
Best non-fiction author					Lawrence Miles
Best publisher							Mad Norwegian Press
Best review	Robert Smith?'s review of Coldheart		Robert Smith?'s review of Instruments of Darkness	John Seavey's Paul Cornell retrospective		John Seavey's review of Match of the Day	insufficient nominations
Best website			Outpost Gallifrey	Outpost Gallifrey	Outpost Gallifrey	Outpost Gallifrey	Outpost Gallifrey
Best author website					Philip Purser-Hallard's	Philip Purser-Hallard's	Philip Purser-Hallard's
Best non-Who prose fiction		"Grass" by Lawrence Miles (in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science-Fiction, re-printed in Dead Romance 2004 ed.)	Strange Boy by Paul Magrs	insufficient votes	To the Devil–A Diva! by Paul Magrs	Swine Fever by Andrew Cartmel	Never the Bride by Paul Magrs	insufficient votes
Best non-Who performed work (TV, radio, audio etc.)		Randall & Hopkirk (Decd.): "Pain Killers" by Gareth Roberts	The League of Gentlemen series 3, co-written/performed by Mark Gatiss	The Second Coming by Russell T Davies	Shameless series 1, executive producer: Matt Jones	Casanova by Russell T Davies	Club Sabbath, organised by Lawrence Miles, compèred by Tat Wood (1st evening), featuring Lawrence Miles (3rd evening)
Best non-Who non-fiction		Slayer (2001 revised edition) by Keith Topping	The Bond Files by Andy Lane	Dusted: The Ultimate Unauthorized Guide to "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", co-written by Lawrence Miles	Secret Identities: An Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to "Alias" by Lance Parkin & Mark Clapham	insufficient votes	insufficient votes
Best author working on the TV series						Russell T Davies	Steven Moffat	Steven Moffat
# votes				36		19	19	13
returning officer	Terry	Henry Potts	Terry	Henry Potts	William Salmon	Henry Potts	Henry Potts	Henry Potts

Considering only those awards given in more than one year, the individuals who have won most:

Lawrence Miles (10.5 as editor and main writer of Best Anthology 2002, Best Returning Character/Concept 2001 & 2002, Most Memorable Passage 2001 & 2003, Lifetime Achievement Award 2004, Best Non-Who Prose Fiction 2001, co-produced Best Non-Fiction Book 2004, 2005 & 2006, Best Non-Who Non-Fiction 2003, Best Non-Who Performed Work 2006)
Nick Wallace (6 as Best Book 2005, Best New Author 2005, Best Original Character/Concept 2005, Best Returning Character/Concept 2005, Most Memorable Passage 2005, editor of Best Anthology 2006)
Philip Purser-Hallard (6 as Best Book 2004, Best New Author 2004, Best Returning Character/Concept 2004, Best Author Website 2004-6)
Lance Parkin (5.8 as Best Returning Author 2001 & 2005, Best Original Character/Concept 2001 & tied in 2004, Lifetime Achievement Award 2002, Best Non-Fiction Book 2003, co-wrote Best Non-Who Non-Fiction 2004; also contributed to Best Non-Fiction Book 2007)
Kelly Hale (5.5 as Best Book 2006, Best Returning Author 2006, Most Memorable Passage 2006, Best New Character/Concept 2006, Best Returning Character/Concept 2006, co-wrote Best Book 2001)
Shaun Lyon (5 as Best Website 2002-6)
Paul Magrs (4 as Best Book 2007, Best Non-Who Prose Fiction 2002, 2004 & 2006; also contributed to Best Non-Fiction Book 2007)
Ben Aaronovitch (4 as Best Short Story 2006, Lifetime Achievement Award 2000, 2005 & 2006)
Daniel O'Mahony (3 as Best Book 2003, Best Short Story 2003, Best Returning Character/Concept 2003; also contributed to Best Non-Fiction Book 2007)
Russell T Davies (3 as writer/producer of Best Non-Who Peformed Work 2003 & 2005, Lifetime Achievement Award 2003)
Lloyd Rose (3 as Best New Author 2001, Best Returning Author 2002, Best Book 2002)
Steven Moffat (3 as Best Author on the TV Series 2006 & 2007, Best Short Story 2005)

In terms of publishers, not surprisingly the BBC wins out with 25.3 awards, followed by Mad Norwegian Press (16.3 and Best Publisher 2006), Virgin (9), the Doctor Who Information Network (4) and several others on less than 4.

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Henry Potts, last update: 13 Feb 2008