A note to my patreon supporters
1 Apr, 2015
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I am having issues logging on to Patreon so if I owe you reviews, please let me know at jdnicoll at panix dot com.
Blog Posts
March in Review
31 Mar, 2015
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February in Review
1 Mar, 2015
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24 books reviewed. 14 by women, 10 by men. F/T = 0.58
Mind you, of those 14 books, 5 were by Norton. Minus Norton, I read 19 books, of which 9 (or 47%) were by women.
Another Review Series
21 Feb, 2015
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The Women of Wonder anthology series was an important part of my reading experience as a teen and rather than lump it in with the Because My Tears Are Delicious to You series (1), I have decided to give Women of Wonder its own series. Currently I am planning on posting each new review on Saturday.
1: As far as I can tell the five books in the series are very much out of print so they are not material for the ReDiscovery series.
January in Review
3 Feb, 2015
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25 books reviewed. 12 were by women, 13 by men. F/T = 48%
Of the 12 books by women, five were by Norton. Removing the 50Ni50W from the numbers, I get 7 books by women to 13 by men, or merely 35%. Hrm.
The now obligatory Hugo eligibility post
3 Jan, 2015
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I am eligible for Best Fan Writing, and this site is eligible for Best Related Work.
I’d prefer the nomination involve jamesdavisnicoll.com and not for the obvious self-serving reasons. Well, not *just* for the obvious self-serving reasons. A number of authors have mentioned sales bumps after I reviewed their books; I am sure if my site was better known, the sales bump would be bigger. And a lot of people follow the Hugo.
Merry Christmas!
25 Dec, 2014
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Merry Christmas to all my readers and especially Adrienne L. Travis for creating and managing this site, Karen Lofstrom for turning my daily word salad into reviews, all of my patreon supporters for supporting me [1], and everyone who has ever commissioned a review1.
That said, tomorrow I reenact the ancient war between noble synapsids and dread archosaur so no review tomorrow or Friday. Back on Saturday!
1: Who I would list by name here — I do know them all — but at least some don’t want that and I don’t trust myself not to screw up and either list someone who wanted confidentiality or conceal someone who didn’t.
My Review Categories
11 Dec, 2014
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This is for books I feel were insufficiently appreciated when they were first published that are now available in ebook form. This series began over on my Livejournal and until the day I port all my Millennial Reviews over is the oldest series here.
I don’t want to be one of those aged cane-wavers who is happy to be ignorant of the wider worlds of SF so I make a point of reading at least one translated work a week.
Because My Tears Are Delicious To You
This began as a spin-off of Rediscovery Tuesdays. The theme here is “books I loved when I was an undiscerning teenager”, which is to say works I encountered between 1974 and 1981. They don’t have to have been published in that period. I just have to have encountered them. Some of these stand up to a reread. Others… not so much.
The Great Heinlein Juveniles (Plus The Other Two) Reread (completed)
In which I reread all of Heinlein’s classic juveniles plus Starship Troopers and Podkayne of Mars because I was curious to see how they stood up and also someone paid me.
This is a spin-off of the Heinlein reread. Andre Norton was an important and prolific SF author and many of the Ace MMPK editions of the Heinlein Juveniles had an ad for 50 of her titles. I decided it would be fun to track down and read (or reread) all fifty.
KW Science Fiction and Fantasy
F & SF by authors from Kitchener-Waterloo, which I began because I was MCing a night of readings by local authors.
You can pay me to review books. Any book I was paid to review that does not fit in the previous categories goes here.
Every review that does not fit in some other category.
My Review Categories
11 Dec, 2014
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This is for books I feel were insufficiently appreciated when they were first published that are now available in ebook form. This series began over on my Livejournal and until the day I port all my Millennial Reviews over is the oldest series here.
I don’t want to be one of those aged cane-wavers who is happy to be ignorant of the wider worlds of SF so I make a point of reading at least one translated work a week.
Because My Tears Are Delicious To You
This began as a spin-off of Rediscovery Tuesdays. The theme here is “books I loved when I was an undiscerning teenager”, which is to say works I encountered between 1974 and 1981. They don’t have to have been published in that period. I just have to have encountered them. Some of these stand up to a reread. Others… not so much.
The Great Heinlein Juveniles (Plus The Other Two) Reread (completed)
In which I reread all of Heinlein’s classic juveniles plus Starship Troopers and Podkayne of Mars because I was curious to see how they stood up and also someone paid me.
This is a spin-off of the Heinlein reread. Andre Norton was an important and prolific SF author and many of the Ace MMPK editions of the Heinlein Juveniles had an ad for 50 of her titles. I decided it would be fun to track down and read (or reread) all fifty.
KW Science Fiction and Fantasy
F & SF by authors from Kitchener-Waterloo, which I began because I was MCing a night of readings by local authors.
You can pay me to review books. Any book I was paid to review that does not fit in the previous categories goes here.
Every review that does not fit in some other category.
November in review
2 Dec, 2014
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26 books reviewed. 14 were by women, 12 by men: f/t = 54%