James Nicoll Reviews

July

20 books read. 11 by women (55%), 8 by men (40%), 1 by NB (5%)

Works by POC: 7 (35%)

Year to Date

146 works reviewed. 79 by women (54%). 63 by men (43%). 4 by non-binary authors (3%).

Works by POC: 46.5 (32%)

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
SFX	165	48	29	10	6	30	5.5	1.5
Romantic Times	146	84	57	14	10	(incorrect)	n/a	N/a
JNR 2017	146	83	57	46.5	32	1	146	44.4
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

I am making progress on the non-binary front but only in terms of books. In terms of authors, I am still narrow focus. I've read more books by POC than this time last year (46.5 versus 34) but fiddling about with numbers says at 4 or 5 books by POC I will only have reviewed 66 to 71 books by POC by the end of December. The low end is not significantly better than 2016. It's a good thing I am neither competitive nor obsessed with my statistics.

At 20 books a month, by year's end I will probably edge out everyone but Locus' army of reviewers, in terms of total reviews. Ah, well. And Locus will have reviewed slightly more WNB authors than I will by years end. At least I can console myself that I am about 27 times as productive thus far as the median reviewer is in a year.