UPDATE: My New Year’s Resolution
By John DeNardo |
Friday, October 1st, 2004 at
12:02 am
This is the September 2004 update of my New Year’s Resolution.
QUICK STATS:
STARTING SF-POINTS©: 269
SF-POINTS© EARNED THIS MONTH: 28 (QUOTA: 30)
YEAR-TO-DATE SF-POINTS©: 297 (YTD QUOTA: 274)
PREVIOUS MONTHS:
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
| DATE READ | STORY | AUTHOR | YEAR WRITTEN | SOURCE | RATING | TYPE | POINTS | YTD POINTS |
| 09/03/04 | “Amnesty” | Octavia Butler | 2003 | Year’s Best SF 9 edited by David G. Hartwell |  |
SS | 1 | 270 |
| 09/05/04 | “Birth Days” | Geoff Ryman | 2003 |  |
SS | 1 | 271 | |
| 09/05/04 | “The Waters of Meribah” | Tony Ballantyne | 2003 | |
SS | 1 | 272 | |
| 09/05/04 | “EJ-ES” | Nancy Kress | 2003 |  |
SS | 1 | 273 | |
| 09/06/04 | “Rogue Farm” | Charles Stross | 2003 | |
SS | 1 | 274 | |
| 09/08/04 | “Four Short Novels” | Joe Haldeman | 2003 | |
SS | 1 | 275 | |
| 09/12/04 | “The Violet’s Embryos” | Angelica Gorodischer | 2003 |  |
NA | 0 | 275 | |
| 09/12/04 | “Coyote at the End of History” | Michael Swanwick | 2003 |  |
SS | 1 | 276 | |
| 09/12/04 | “In Fading Suns and Dying Moons” | John Varley | 2003 |  |
SS | 1 | 277 | |
| 09/13/04 | “Castaway” | Gene Wolfe | 2003 | |
SS | 1 | 278 | |
| 09/14/04 | “The Hydrogen Wall” | Gregory Benford | 2003 | |
NA | 4 | 282 | |
| 09/15/04 | “The Day We Went Through the Transition” | Ricard de la Casa & Pedro Jorge Romero | 1997 (2003) |  |
SS | 1 | 283 | |
| 09/16/04 | “Nimby and the Dimension Hoppers” | Cory Doctorow | 2003 | |
SS | 1 | 284 | |
| 09/17/04 | “Night of Time” | Robert Reed | 2003 | |
SS | 1 | 285 | |
| 09/18/04 | “Rabbit Test” | Jeffrey Ford | 2004 | Fantastic Metropolis | |
SS | 1 | 286 |
| 09/20/04 | “A Night on the Barbary Coast” | Kage Baker | 2003 | Year’s Best SF 9 edited by David G. Hartwell | |
SS | 1 | 287 |
| 09/22/04 | “Hexagons” | Robert Reed | 2003 | Asimov’s Online | |
NV | 2 | 289 |
| 09/24/04 | “Annuity Clinic” | Nigel Brown | 200X | Year’s Best SF 9 edited by David G. Hartwell | |
SS | 1 | 290 |
| 09/26/04 | “The Madwoman of Shuttlefield” | Allen M. Steele | 2003 | |
SS | 1 | 291 | |
| 09/27/04 | “Bread and Bombs” | M. Rickert | 2003 | |
SS | 1 | 292 | |
| 09/27/04 | “The Great Game” | Stephen Baxter | 2003 | |
SS | 1 | 293 | |
| 09/28/04 | “The Albertine Notes” | Rick Moody | 2003 | |
NA | 4 | 297 |
KEY:VI=Vignette (.25 points), SS=Short Story (1 point), NV=Novelette (2 points), NA=Novella (4 points)
NOTES:
- Miscellaneous reviews follow
“Rabbit Test” by Jeffrey Ford
[Read: 09/18/04]
[Rating: ]
[Source: Fantastic Metropolis]
| Synopsis: A husband and wife keep trying to have a baby after multiple miscarriages that were preceded by the image of a rabbit. | |
| Review: Well written and moving fiction story by a genre writer. You might be able to classify this as fantasy. |
“Hexagons” by Robert Reed
[Read: 09/22/04]
[Rating: ]
[Source: Asimov's Online]
| Synopsis: Alternate history story where a man runs for senator of his local New Rome province against an anti-Semitic opponent. | |
| Review: Great storytelling told through the character of the man’s 11-year-old son, who plays an elaborate hexagonal-based war game with his Jewish friend’s grandfather. | |
| Note: Finalist for the 2004 Hugo for best novelette. |
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If I get through the 3 or 4 collections I’m reading simultaneously in the near future (maybe this weekend, as I’m working both days), I’ll be at 489.
Caveat: That includes a number of non-fiction items. Even taking them out, I’m way past the goal of 365.
Caveat: I’m not using the patented method. For example, two of the collections I’m reading right now are The SF Hall of Fame, Volumes IIA and IIB. These two fat paperbacks are entirely novellas. That would probably kick the count up, no?
I’m game to do this again next year! It was an excellent idea on your part!
Fred the speed-reader, ladies and gentlemen.
I’ve also enjoyed doing this. Setting goals has meant more reading and less TV – usually a good thing. As far as next year, if I do continue, I’m not sure if I’ll keep on posting results. It takes time away from reading!
Well, while I do read fast, I’ve found that I’ve been enjoying the stories so much that I’m reading them over novels. Plus, given the nature of my underemployment as a security guard, a short story each half hour or hour works into the need to walk around and “show my presence” (like anybody is going to rob the sites I work at).
Here’s a good one…picked up “The Year’s Best SF”, #21, edited by Gardner Dozois. How’s this for a boost for the story count…”More Than 300,000 Words of Fantastic Fiction”.
I’ll have to start buying these. Looks like excellent collections.
Generally speaking, Dozois’ Year’s Best Science Fiction Series is the definitive anthology series. Being printed in a larger hardback helps. As (former) editor of Asimov’s SF, he came into contact with lots of SF.