Reviews and Essays
- Depth of Field III: Companions (Strange Horizons, 29 January 2024; available online)
- 2023 in Review (Locus 757, February 2024; available online)
- Review of The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2022, eds. Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Eugen Bacon & Milton Davis (Locus 757, February 2024)
- Review of The Inhumans and Other Stories: A Selection of Bengali Science Fiction, ed. Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay (Locus 758, March 2024; available online)
- Review of The Mars House by Natasha Pulley (Locus 758, March 2024; available online)
- Review of Jumpnauts by Hao Jingfang (Locus 758, March 2024; available online)
- Review of Kurdistan+100 eds. Mustafa Gündoğdu & Orsola Casagrande (Locus 759, April 2024; available online)
- Review of Elephants in Bloom by Cecile Cristofari (Locus 761, June 2024; available online)
- Review of In Universes by Emet North (Locus 761, June 2024; available online)
- Review of Shanghailanders by Juli Min (Locus 761, June 2024; available online)
- Review of Beyond the Light Horizon by Ken MacLeod (Locus 761, June 2024; available online)
- Review of Egypt+100, ed. Ahmed Naji (Locus 763, August 2024; available online)
- Review of Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Locus 764, September 2024; available online)
- Review of A Jura for Julia by Ken MacLeod (Locus 764, September 2024; available online)
- Review of The Jaguar Mask by Michael J. DeLuca (Locus 764, September 2024; available online)
- Review of The Book of Love by Kelly Link (On Briardene, 18 September 2024; available online)
- Review of Deep Dream ed. Indrapramit Das (Locus 765, October 2024; available online)
- Review of Playground by Richard Powers (Locus 765, October 2024; available online)
- Review of Wish I Was Here by M. John Harrison (Locus 765, October 2024; available online)
- Review of We Are All Ghosts in the Forest by Lorraine Wilson (Locus 766, November 2024; available online)
- Review of Darkome by Hannu Rajaniemi (Locus 766, November 2024; available online)
- Review of A Simple Intervention by Yael Inokai (Locus 766, November 2024; available online)
Stats
I read 89 books in 2024 (up from 85 last year), and wrote about 29 (down from 40; note that four reviews not listed above will be in the January 2025 issue of Locus). As those totals show, not my most productive year; and as the list above shows, Locus commitments took priority over just about everything else. I’d like to try to find more time in 2025 to write a few more longer-form reviews, and to write for other venues. That said, I’m happy with some of the pieces above, particularly the reviews of The Mars House, Kurdistan+100, Beyond The Light Horizon, Alien Clay, The Book of Love, and all three in the October column. 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: 48% / 56%
- By people of colour: 36% / 32%
- In translation: 19% / 24%
- Number of countries: 19 / 11
- Works published in 2024: 49% / 68% (I count translations as original year of publication)
- Nonfiction: 11% / 4%
- SF: 80% / 96% (I did not count the MJH book as SF)
- Graphic novels: 6% / 0%
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