May 2019 in Review
20 Jun, 2019
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Augh. Why can't I finish these on time? And why am I producing fewer reviews in a year when I am a Hugo finalist. Work harder, Nicoll.
May
21 books read. 12.5 by women (60%), 8.5 by men (40%)
Works by POC: 9 (43%)
Year to Date
103 books read. 57.75 by women (56%). 43.25 by men (42%). 2 by an author whose gender is unknown (2%).
Works by POC: 42.75 (42%)
And now the meaningless chart.
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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| JNR 2019 | 103 | 59.75 | 58 | 42.75 | 42 | 103 | 103 | 31 | 42.75 | 42.00 | 59.75 |
| Rising Shadows | 83 | 25 | 30 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 41.5 | 12.6 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 12.5 |
| 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 |