James Nicoll Reviews

December

20 books read. 12 by women (60%), 8 by men (40%)

Works by POC: 8 (40%)

Year to Date

244 books read. 135.5 by women (56%). 105 by men (43%). 2 by non-binary authors (1%) and 1.5 by an author whose gender is unknown (1%).

Works by POC: 100.75 (41%).

In pretty much every parameter save books by POC, this is pretty disappointing compared to past years, except for the discovery I am eight reviews short of 1500 for this site.

2018: 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%)

2017: 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%)

2016: 255 books read. 161.5 by women (0.63), 91.5 by men (0.36), 2 by authors who identifies as neither (0.01). 62.5 by POC (0.25).

2015: 329 books read. 195 by women (59%). 45 by POC (14%)

2014: I don't seem to have kept my numbers from 2014. I know I reviewed 150 books, though.

And now for the extremely obsolete chart.

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. The numbers are from the most recent Strange Horizons count, which is something like half a decade old.

Review source	Total	WNB	WNB %	POC	POC %	R	R/R	R/R %	POC/R	%POC/R	wnb/r
JNR 2015	329	195	59	45	14	1	329	100	45	14	195
Locus	324	163	50	22	7	17	19	5.7	1.3	0.41	9.6
JNR 2018	259	154	59	82.5	32	1	259	79	82.5	32	154
JNR 2017	255	143.5	56	75.5	30	1	255	78	75.5	30	143.5
JNR 2016	255	163.5	64	62.5	25	1	255	78	62.5	25	163.5
JNR 2019	244	139	57	100.75	41	1	244	74	100.75	41	139
SFX	165	48	29	10	6	30	5.5	1.5	0.33	0.2	1.6
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	2.4
Strange Horizons	139	66	48	30	22	80	1.7	0.5	0.38	0.28	0.8
Rising Shadows	83	25	30	1	1	2	41.5	12.6	0.5	0.5	12.5
JDN 2019	82	48.25	59	33.75	41	1	82	25	33.75	41	48.25
Interzone	67	21	31	7	10	19	3.5	1	0.37	0.53	1.1
F&SF	59	32	54	5	9	5	11.8	3.6	1	1.8	6.4
Analog	58	10	17	3	4	1	58	17.6	3	4	10
Io9	56	17	30	12	21	10	5.6	1.7	1.2	2.1	1.7
Asimov’s	53	21	23	3	6	3	17.7	5.4	1	2	3
Vector	52	18	35	4	8	26	2	0.6	0.15	0.31	0.7
SFS	45	48	21	2	4	38	1.2	0.3	0.053	0.11	1.3
NYRSF	42	11	26	6	13	24	1.8	0.5	0.25	0.54	0.5
Foundation	38	9	24	1	3	27	1.4	0.4	0.04	0.11	0.33
LARB	35	11	31	7	20	28	1.3	0.4	0.25	0.71	0.4
Lightspeed	28	16?	57	14	50	3	9.3	2.8	4.67	16.67	5.3
CSZ	23	19	80	8	35	17	1.4	0.4	0.47	2.06	1.1