10/06 UPDATE: My New Year’s Resolution

Posted on November 1, 2006 by John DeNardo in Books // 5 Comments

This is the October 2006 update of my New Year’s Resolution to (almost) read a short story a day.

QUICK STATS:
   STARTING SF-POINTS^©: 376
   SF-POINTS^© EARNED THIS MONTH: 40 (QUOTA: 31)
   YEAR-TO-DATE SF-POINTS^©: 416 (YTD QUOTA: 304)

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DATE READ	YEAR WRITTEN	STORY	AUTHOR	SOURCE	RATING	TYPE	POINTS	YTD POINTS
10/02/06	2006	“Mid-Death”	Alan Dean Foster	Forbidden Planets edited by Marvin Kaye		NA	4	380
10/03/06	2006	“Walking Star”	Allen M. Steele			NA	4	384
10/05/06	2006	“JQ211F, And Holding”	Nancy Kress			NA	4	388
10/07/06	2006	“Rococo”	Robert Reed			NA	4	392
10/08/06	2006	“Kaminsky at War”	Jack McDevitt			NA	4	396
10/10/06	2006	“No Place Like Home”	Julie E. Czerneda			NA	4	400
10/15/06	1997	“Words and Music”	William Sanders	Isaac Asimov’s Halloween edited by by Gardner Dozois and Sheila Williams		NV	2	402
10/17/06	1997	“Beluthahatchie”	Andy Duncan			SS	1	403
10/22/06	1989	“Renaissance”	Nancy Kress			SS	1	404
10/23/06	1995	“Dikduk”	Eliot Fintushel			SS	1	405
10/24/06	1992	“Pickman’s Modem”	Lawrence Watt-Evans			SS	1	406
10/24/06	1992	“Thorri the Poet’s Saga”	S. N. Dyer & Lucy Kemnitzer			NV	2	408
10/25/06	1987	“He-We-Await”	Howard Waldrop			NV	2	410
10/26/06	2000	“The Shunned Trailer”	Esther M. Friesner			SS	1	411
10/27/06	1993	“The Country Doctor”	Steven Utley			SS	1	412
10/28/06	1997	“The Golden Keeper”	Ian R. MacLeod			NA	4	416

KEY:VI=Vignette (.25 points), SS=Short Story (1 point), NV=Novelette (2 points), NA=Novella (4 points)

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Scott // November 1, 2006 at 9:15 am //

:):D(6):-@:-P:-S:^)(H);-):-$|-):O:(8o|:(:O|-):-$;-)(H):^):-S:-P:-@(6):D:)
Oh wait, is this post not about Eragon?

Fred Kiesche // November 3, 2006 at 6:44 am //

It wasn’t until you brought that Dreaded Name into the picture, Scott!
(6)
About 507 stories for me. “About” because I forgot to add in the ones that I’ve read so far in the Dozois megathology, minus those already read for the Hartwell/Cramer annual.
So I think I’ll have no trouble hitting 600 by the end of the year.
(H)

Fred Kiesche // November 3, 2006 at 6:47 am //

You see, I didn’t even mention those inflationary methods used in somebody’s count. Oops!
:O