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December 2017 and 2017 in Review

31 Dec, 2017

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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