July
20 books read. 11 by women (55%), 8 by men (40%), 1 by NB (5%)
Works by POC: 7 (35%)
Year to Date
146 works reviewed. 79 by women (54%). 63 by men (43%). 4 by non-binary authors (3%).
Works by POC: 46.5 (32%)
And now, the meaningless table.
Key: WNB stands for “women and non-binary genders”, while POC stands
for “person of colour”. R/R stands for “reviews/reviewers”. For R/R the percentage represents the site’s
R/R over my 2015 R/R. SFX is actually called SFX; it is not short for anything. Same with io9. F&SF is the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. SFS is Science Fiction Studies. LARB is the Los Angeles Review of Books. CSZ is the Cascadia Subduction Zone.
Review source |
Total |
WNB |
WNB % |
POC |
POC % |
Reviewers |
R/R |
R/R % |
JNR 2015 |
329 |
195 |
59 |
45 |
14 |
1 |
329 |
100 |
Locus |
324 |
163 |
50 |
22 |
7 |
17 |
19 |
5.7 |
JNR 2016 |
255 |
163.5 |
64 |
62.5 |
25 |
1 |
255 |
78 |
SFX |
165 |
48 |
29 |
10 |
6 |
30 |
5.5 |
1.5 |
Romantic Times |
146 |
84 |
57 |
14 |
10 |
(incorrect) |
n/a |
N/a |
JNR 2017 |
146 |
83 |
57 |
46.5 |
32 |
1 |
146 |
44.4 |
Tor |
141 |
66 |
47 |
18 |
13 |
27 |
5.2 |
1.6 |
Strange Horizons |
139 |
66 |
48 |
30 |
22 |
80 |
1.7 |
0.5 |
Rising Shadows |
83 |
25 |
30 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
41.5 |
12.6 |
Interzone |
67 |
21 |
31 |
7 |
10 |
19 |
3.5 |
1 |
F&SF |
59 |
32 |
54 |
5 |
9 |
5 |
11.8 |
3.6 |
Analog |
58 |
10 |
17 |
3 |
4 |
1 |
58 |
17.6 |
Io9 |
56 |
17 |
30 |
12 |
21 |
10 |
5.6 |
1.7 |
Asimov’s |
53 |
21 |
23 |
3 |
6 |
3 |
17.7 |
5.4 |
Vector |
52 |
18 |
35 |
4 |
8 |
26 |
2 |
0.6 |
SFS |
45 |
48 |
21 |
2 |
4 |
38 |
1.2 |
0.3 |
NYRSF |
42 |
11 |
26 |
6 |
13 |
24 |
1.8 |
0.5 |
Foundation |
38 |
9 |
24 |
1 |
3 |
27 |
1.4 |
0.4 |
LARB |
35 |
11 |
31 |
7 |
20 |
28 |
1.3 |
0.4 |
Lightspeed |
28 |
16? |
57 |
14 |
50 |
3 |
9.3 |
2.8 |
CSZ |
23 |
19 |
80 |
8 |
35 |
17 |
1.4 |
0.4 |
I am making progress on the non-binary front but only in terms of books. In terms of authors, I am still narrow focus. I've read more books by POC than this time last year (46.5 versus 34) but fiddling about with numbers says at 4 or 5 books by POC I will only have reviewed 66 to 71 books by POC by the end of December. The low end is not significantly better than 2016. It's a good thing I am neither competitive nor obsessed with my statistics.
At 20 books a month, by year's end I will probably edge out everyone but Locus' army of reviewers, in terms of total reviews. Ah, well. And Locus will have reviewed slightly more WNB authors than I will by years end. At least I can console myself that I am about 27 times as productive thus far as the median reviewer is in a year.
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