James Nicoll Reviews

Short version: I produced about as many reviews as the median reviewer on the Strange Horizons count might over about half a century, about as many reviews of books by women and non-binary authors as the median reviewer on the Strange Horizons list might over the course of about a century and about as many reviews of books by POC as as the median reviewer on the Strange Horizons count might over about one hundred and seventy-five years. Let's see if I cannot at least make that last number a fifth of a millennium next year.

December

21 books read. 12 by women (57%), 8 by men (38%). 1 by an author whose gender is unknown (5%).

Works by POC: 5 (24%)

Year to Date 259 books read. 144 by women (56%), 105 by men (41%), 3 by NB (1%). 7 by persons whose gender is unknown (3%). Works by POC: 82.5 (32%) And now, the meaningless table.

Numbers drawn from the most recent Strange Horizons Count, which isn’t all that recent anymore.

Key: WNB stands for “women and non-binary genders”, while POC stands for “person of colour”. R stands for reviewer. R/R stands for “reviews/reviewers”. For R/R % the percentage represents the site’s R/R over my 2015 R/R. POC/R is the ratio of reviews of works by POC to reviewers at that site. POC/R % is the previous ratio expressed as a percentage. 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 %	R	R/R	R/R %	POC/R	%POC/R
JNR 2015	329	195	59	45	14	1	329	100	45	14
Locus	324	163	50	22	7	17	19	5.7	1.3	0.41
JNR 2018	259	154	59	82.5	32	1	259	79	82.5	32
JNR 2017	255	143.5	56	75.5	30	1	255	78	75.5	30
JNR 2016	255	163.5	64	62.5	25	1	255	78	62.5	25
SFX	165	48	29	10	6	30	5.5	1.5	0.33	0.2
Romantic Times	146	84	57	14	10	n/a	n/a	N/a	n/a	n/a
Tor	141	66	47	18	13	27	5.2	1.6	0.67	0.48
Strange Horizons	139	66	48	30	22	80	1.7	0.5	0.38	0.28
Rising Shadows	83	25	30	1	1	2	41.5	12.6	0.5	0.5
Interzone	67	21	31	7	10	19	3.5	1	0.37	0.53
F&SF	59	32	54	5	9	5	11.8	3.6	1	1.8
Analog	58	10	17	3	4	1	58	17.6	3	4
Io9	56	17	30	12	21	10	5.6	1.7	1.2	2.1
Asimov’s	53	21	23	3	6	3	17.7	5.4	1	2
Vector	52	18	35	4	8	26	2	0.6	0.15	0.31
SFS	45	48	21	2	4	38	1.2	0.3	0.053	0.11
NYRSF	42	11	26	6	13	24	1.8	0.5	0.25	0.54
Foundation	38	9	24	1	3	27	1.4	0.4	0.04	0.11
LARB	35	11	31	7	20	28	1.3	0.4	0.25	0.71
Lightspeed	28	16?	57	14	50	3	9.3	2.8	4.67	16.67
CSZ	23	19	80	8	35	17	1.4	0.4	0.47	2.06