March 2017 in Review
31 Mar, 2017
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March
21 books read. 11.5 by women (55%), 9.5 by men (45%).
Works by POC: 4 (19%)
Year to Date
63 works reviewed. 34.5 by women (55%). 27.5 by men (44%). 1 by a non-binary author (2%). Note that there is a rounding error.
Works by POC: 24.5 (39%)
I am not making the progress on non-binary and genderqueer authors I had hoped to make.
And now for my favourite part: 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”. Figures in brackets are percentages; 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 (%) | POC (%) | Reviewers | 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) |
| 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) |
| James Nicoll Review 2017 | 63 | 35.5 (56) | 24.5 (39) | 1 | 63 (19) |
| 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) |
So far this year I have read more books by POC than all but one of the review sources that make the annual count—NOT THAT I AM BITTER ABOUT NOT MAKING IT—did in 2015, the exception being Strange Horizons. So far this year I have read more books by POC than Analog, Asimov's, F&SF, Rising Shadows, SFS, and Vector's 75 reviewers did between them in 2015.