UPDATE: My New Year’s Resolution
This is the February 2004 update of my New Year’s Resolution.
QUICK STATS:
SF-POINT© QUOTA: 29
SF-POINTS©EARNED: 29
YEAR-TO-DATE SF-POINTS©: 69
PREVIOUS MONTHS: Jan
DATE READ | STORY | AUTHOR | YEAR WRITTEN | SOURCE | RATING | TYPE | POINTS | YTD POINTS |
02/01/04 | Let’s Be Frank | Brian Aldiss | 1957 | An ABC of Science Fiction edited by Tom Boardman, Jr. | ![]() |
SS | 1 | 41 |
02/01/04 | Pattern | Fredric Brown | 1954 | ![]() |
VI | .25 | 41.25 | |
02/01/04 | The King of the Beasts | Philip Jos? Farmer | 1964 | ![]() |
VI | .25 | 41.50 | |
02/01/04 | In the Bag | Laurence M. Janifer | 1964 | ![]() |
VI | .25 | 41.75 | |
02/01/04 | Maid to Measure | Damon Knight | 1964 | ![]() |
VI | .25 | 42 | |
02/01/04 | Three Limericks | B. T. H. Xerxes | ???? | ![]() |
Poem | 0 | 42 | |
02/01/04 | The Awakening | Arthur C. Clarke | 1952 | ![]() |
SS | 1 | 43 | |
02/01/04 | I Do Not Hear You, Sir | Avram Davidson | 1958 | ![]() |
SS | 1 | 44 | |
02/01/04 | Day at the Beach | Carol Emshwiller | 1959 | ![]() |
SS | 1 | 45 | |
02/01/04 | Homey Atmosphere | Daniel F. Galouye | 1961 | ![]() |
SS | 1 | 46 | |
02/04/04 | Mute Milton | Harry Harrison | 1966 | ![]() |
SS | 1 | 47 | |
02/04/04 | The Conquest of the Moon | Washington Irving | 1809 | ![]() |
SS | 1 | 48 | |
02/04/04 | X Marks the Pedwalk | Fritz Leiber | 1963 | ![]() |
SS | 1 | 49 | |
02/04/04 | No Moon for Me | Walter M. Miller, Jr. | 1952 | ![]() |
SS | 1 | 50 | |
02/05/04 | Family Resemblance | Alan E. Nourse | 1953 | ![]() |
SS | 1 | 51 | |
02/06/04 | Final Exam | Chad Oliver | 1952 | ![]() |
SS | 1 | 52 | |
02/10/04 | The Bitterest Pill | Frederik Pohl | 1959 | ![]() |
SS | 1 | 53 | |
02/10/04 | He Had a Big Heart | Frank Quattrocchi | 1955 | ![]() |
SS | 1 | 54 | |
02/10/04 | Love Story | Eric Frank Russell | 1957 | ![]() |
SS | 1 | 55 | |
02/11/04 | The Fence | Clifford Simak | 1952 | ![]() |
SS | 1 | 56 | |
02/12/04 | Project Hush | William Tenn | 1954 | ![]() |
SS | 1 | 57 | |
02/12/04 | The Finer Breed | Helen M. Urban | 1956 | ![]() |
SS | 1 | 58 | |
02/18/04 | Harrison Bergeron | Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. | 1961 | ![]() |
SS | 1 | 59 | |
02/18/04 | Close Behind Him | John Wyndham | 1953 | ![]() |
SS | 1 | 60 | |
02/19/04 | Thirty Days Had September | Robert F. Young | 1957 | ![]() |
SS | 1 | 61 | |
02/19/04 | The Great Slow Kings | Roger Zelazny | 1963 | ![]() |
SS | 1 | 62 | |
02/20/04 – 02/21/04 | Breathmoss | Ian R. MacLeod | 2002 | The Year’s Best Science Fiction #20 edited by Gardner Dozois | ![]() |
NA | 4 | 66 |
02/26/04 | The Most Famous Little Girl in the World | Nancy Kress | 2002 | ![]() |
SS | 1 | 67 | |
02/27/04 | The Passenger | Paul McCauley | 2002 | ![]() |
NV | 2 | 69 |
KEY:VI=Vignette (.25 points), SS=Short Story (1 point), NV=Novelette (2 points), NA=Novella (4 points)
NOTES:
- The reviews of the stories from An ABC of Science Fiction have already been posted.
- The reviews for the stories from The Year’s Best Science Fiction #20 will be posted when I comlpete the anthology.[4/24 update: Link added!]
Well…I’m not doing any fancy scoring system, but so far I’ve gotten through six books (and have four more just about finished) and have either read or given up on (because I did not like them after trying to read them) some 59 short stories, novellas, novelettes and essays related to SF & F.
Well Fred,
John obviously has a lot of time on his hands. Witness his propensity to troll Star Wars sites….