UPDATE: My New Year’s Resolution
By John DeNardo |
Sunday, August 1st, 2004 at
12:14 am
This is the July 2004 update of my New Year’s Resolution.
QUICK STATS:
STARTING SF-POINTS©: 220
SF-POINTS©EARNED THIS MONTH: 14 (QUOTA: 31)
YEAR-TO-DATE SF-POINTS©: 234 (YTD QUOTA: 213)
It was a slow reading month for me, mostly beacuse of a two week “vacation” and having some work done on the house. Good thing I was ahead in the short story department!
PREVIOUS MONTHS:
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
| DATE READ | STORY | AUTHOR | YEAR WRITTEN | SOURCE | RATING | TYPE | POINTS | YTD POINTS |
| 07/01/04 | Think Like a Dinosaur | James Patrick Kelly | 1995 | Year’s Best SF #1 edited by David G. Hartwell |  |
NV | 2 | 222 |
| 07/11/04 | Wonders of the Invisible World | Patricia A. McKillip | 1995 |  |
SS | 1 | 223 | |
| 07/19/04 | Hot Times in Magma City | Robert Silverberg | 1995 |  |
NA | 4 | 227 | |
| 07/21/04 | The Empire of Ice Cream | Jeffrey Ford | 2003 | SCI FICTION | |
NV | 2 | 229 |
| 07/21/04 | Gossamer | Stephen Baxter | 1995 | Year’s Best SF #1 edited by David G. Hartwell |  |
SS | 1 | 230 |
| 07/22/04 | A Worm in the Well | Gregory Benford | 1995 | |
NV | 2 | 232 | |
| 07/23/04 | Downloading Midnight | William Browning Spencer | 1995 | |
NV | 2 | 234 |
KEY:VI=Vignette (.25 points), SS=Short Story (1 point), NV=Novelette (2 points), NA=Novella (4 points)
NOTES:
- Miscellaneous reviews follow
The Empire of Ice Cream by Jeffrey Ford
[Read: 07/21/04]
[Rating: ]
[Source: SCI FICTION]
| Synopsis: A man with synesthesia – a condition that causes some serious sensory association – has visions of a beautiful woman when he tastes coffee. His first experience occurs as a young boy when he sneaks out and tastes coffee ice cream. | |
| Review: Really good story and a quick read. The condition of synesthesia is interesting in that there are lots of twisted sensory descriptions like “the horrible smell of purple” and “the ring of the telephone feeling like burlap.” An excellent description of William’s boyhood initiates the lifelong loneliness that prompts what he believes is a hallucination of the girl Anna. Or, is she real? | |
| Note: 2004 Hugo Nominee and 2004 Nebula Winner |
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In a “straight forward” count, I’m around 200 or so. I’m in the middle of a couple of collections, so when they are done, I’ll give an update.
Great!
226 when I finish Asimov’s “The Complete Robot”…straightforward count, not counting novellas as doubles, etc.
If you’re not doing my patented SF-POINTS© system, then you are way ahead of me.\ in terms of story count.
Well, I can’t afford the licensing fees, so I’m doing it the old-fashioned way.
Heh-heh.
At about story #261, which puts me 20+ ahead by the end of August YTD. Again, straight-line method, one thing read = one story.
Way to go, Fred. I’m about the same, but I’m using the weighted points system so my story count is a bit less. Are you documenting at all? I’d love to see the list. Maybe you could post it at The Eternal Golden Braid?
Yep, gotta write up the list at some point. However, I’m still getting used to my work schedule, my daughter’s school schedule and how it is impacting computer time. Soon, soon!
Wait, Fred, you’re working again? Congrats!!
Part-time, barely above minimum. But it’s second-shift, so we don’t need daycare. And, it’s security, which means I can read a lot of short stories.