December 2017 and 2017 in Review
31 Dec, 2017
December
21 books read. 11 by women (52%), 8 by men (38%), 1 by a non-binary author (5%) and one (NA 5%).
Works by POC: 6 (29%)
Year to Date
255 works reviewed. 138.5 by women (54%). 109.5 by men (43%). 5 by non-binary authors (2%). 2 by N/A (1%)
Works by POC: 75.5 (30%)
Well, not quite as productive a year as I had hoped but not without its bright points. For example, I review books at a rate about 45 times that of the median reviewer in the Strange Horizons' count, books by WNB authors at a rate 90 times that of the median reviewer in the Strange Horizons' count and books by POC at a rate 160 times that of the median reviewer in the Strange Horizons' count. While I didn't increase the number of books by NB authors as much as I hoped, I did increase it. Incremental efforts over time can accomplish great goals.
All I have to do is keep on incrementing....
I have some interesting goals for 2018.
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 |
| JNR 2017 | 255 | 143.5 | 56 | 75.5 | 30 | 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 |
| 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 |