Briardene Books

Book

All These Worlds (Briardene Books, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, April 2023; 987-1-870824675 pb / 978-1-870824682 ebook)

reviews and essays

1. Dancing on the World’s Thin Crust: On the MIT Press’s Radium Age series (Los Angeles Review of Books, 21 January 2023; available online; portions incorporated into “Unstable Histories in the Space of Dreams” in All These Worlds)
2. In Search of Green Overshoots (Strange Horizons, 20 January 2023; available online)
3. Review of The Deluge by Stephen Markley (On Briardene, 6 February 2023; available online)
4. Depth of Field I: Remaking History (Strange Horizons 27 March 2023; available online)
5. Review of Hopeland by Ian McDonald (On Briardene, 6 April 2023; available online)
6. Review of Rise of the Cyberzines by Mike Ashley (Foundation 144, April 2023; incorporated into “Unstable Histories in the Space of Dreams” in All These Worlds)
7. “Introduction” (in All These Worlds, Briardene Books, April 2023; previously unpublished)
8. Review of Arcadia by Lauren Groff (in All These Worlds, Briardene Books, April 2023; previously unpublished)
9. Review of Hospital and A Primer to Han Song by Han Song (BSFA Review 21; available online)
10. Review of Life Beyond Us edited by Julie Nováková, Lucas K. Law and Susan Forest (BSFA Review 21; available online)
11. Commentary on the 2023 Arthur C. Clarke Award (On Briardene, a) 4 June 2023, b) 7 June 2023, and c) 16 August 2023)
12. Depth of Field II: Timefulness (Strange Horizons 3 July 2023; available online)
13. Review of In Ascension by Martin MacInnes (Locus 751, August 2023; available online)
14. Review of All The Hollow of the Sky by Kit Whitfield (Locus 751, August 2023; available online)
15. The Year’s Best is Dead, Long Live the Year’s Best: On the 2023 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Finalists (Los Angeles Review of Books, 21 September 2023; available online)
16. Review of Desert Creatures by Kay Chronister (BSFA Review 22)
17. Review of You Are My Sunshine by Octavia Cade (Locus 753, October 2023; available online)
18. Review of Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh (Foundation 146, November 2023)
19. Review of Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford (Locus 754, November 2023; available online)
20. Review of The Future by Naomi Alderman (Locus 754, November 2023; available online)
21. Review of Nefando by Monica Ojeda (Locus 754, November 2023; available online)
22. Review of Nordic Visions ed. Margrét Helgadóttir (Locus 755/756, December 2023/January 2024)
23. Review of Mad Sisters of Esi by Tasha Mehtan (Locus 755/756, December 2023/January 2024; available online)

Stats

I read 85 books in 2023, and had writing published about 40; note that the denominators are different, because some of the writing about the 40 was submitted in 2022, and some of the reviews of the 85 have not yet been published. In the list below, the first percentage is for books-read, and the second is for books-written about. Numbers should obviously be taken with a grain of salt given the fuzziness of identities.

• Not by cis men: 51% / 50%
• By people of colour: 28% / 25%
• In translation: 9% / 16%
• Number of countries: 18, plus some regional anthologies (Nordic, African, SEA) / 10, plus the Nordic and African anthologies
• Works published in 2023: 39% / 35%
• Nonfiction: 17% / 5%
• SF: 78% / 97.5%
• Graphic novels: 9% / 2.5%