Across the eons comes a tale of a time in a galaxy far, far away, when John DeNardo of SF Signal started tracking his short stories read as a way of trying to make a goal of reading one short work for each day of the year. I've managed, more often than not, to match that goal myself. While the tradition has faded at SF Signal, it continues here. The legend continues!
Number of Stories Read: 416 (out of 365) as of December 31, 2021.
Ben Aaronovitch: Tales from the Folly. Made up of: Charlaine Harris on Rivers of London (Charlaine Harris); An Introduction to The Introductions; The Home Crowd Advantage; The Domestic; The Cockpit; The Loneliness of the Long-Distant Granny; King of the Rats; A Rare Book of Cunning Device; Introduction: The Others' Stories; A Dedicated Follower of Fashion; Favourite Uncle; Vanessa Sommer's Other Christmas List; Three Rivers, Two Husbands and a Baby; Moments One-Three; Just One More Thing... (15 stories, completed).
Ben Aaaronovitch: What Abigail Did That Summer. The Furthest Station. A Rare Book of Cunning Device. The October Man (4 stories, completed).
Poul Anderson: The Technic Civilization 01—The Van Rijn Method. Made up of: Planets and Profits (Hank Davis); The Saturn Game; Introduction—Wings of Victory; Wings of Victory; Introduction—The Problem of Pain; The Problem of Pain; Introduction—Margin of Profit; Margin of Profit (1978 Revised Version); Introduction—How to be Ethnic in One Easy Lesson; How to be Ethnic in one Easy Lesson; Introduction—The Three-Cornered Wheel; The Three-Cornered Wheel; Introduction—A Sun Invisible; A Sun Invisible; Introduction—The Season of Forgiveness; The Season of Forgiveness; Introduction to The Man Who Counts; The Man Who Counts; Afterword to The Man Who Counts; Introduction to Esau; Esau; Introduction to Hiding Place; Hiding Place; A Chronology of Technic Civilization (Sandra Miesel); Appendix I—Original Version of Margin of Profit; Appendix II—The Man Who Counts and the Technic Civilization Series (26 stories; collection completed).
Poul Anderson; The Technic Civilization 02—David Falkayn: Star Trader. Made up of: High Profits and High Adventure (Hank Davis); A Historical Reflection; Territory; Plus Ça Change Plus C'est La Même Chose; The Trouble Twisters; Introduction—Day of Burning; Day of Burning; The Master Key; Satan's World; Introduction—A Little Knowledge; A Little Knowledge; Introduction—Lodestar; Lodestar; Afterword—Lodestar; Chronology of Technic Civilization (Sandra Miesel) (15 stories and essays, collection completed).
Gregory Benford and David G. Hartwell (editor): The Best of Gregory Benford. Made up of: Nobody Lives on Burton Street; Doing Lennon; White Creatures; In Alien Flesh; Redeemer; Dark Sanctuary; Time Shards; Exposures; Relativistic Effects; Of Space/Time and the River (variant of Of Space-Time and the River); Time's Rub; Freezeframe; Proselytes; Matter's End; Mozart on Morphine; Centigrade 233; World Vast, World Various; In the Dark Backward (variant of The Dark Backward); A Desperate Calculus; Zoomers; Slow Symphonies of Mass and Time; A Dance to Strange Musics; Anomalies; Comes the Evolution; Twenty-Two Centimeters; A Life with a Semisent; Applied Mathematical Theology; Bow Shock; Reasons Not to Publish; The Champagne Award; Penumbra; Gravity's Whispers; Mercies; Grace Immaculate; Eagle; The Sigma Structure Symphony; Backscatter; Afterword (38 stories read; collection completed).
Ben Bova: The Kinsman Saga. Made up of: Kinsman; Test in Orbit; The Weathermakers; Fifteen Miles; Zero Gee; Build Me a Mountain; The Lieutenant and the Folksinger; Millennium. (8 stories, collection completed).
Lois McMaster Bujold: Winterfair Gifts (1 story, completed). The Flowers of Vashnoi (1 story, completed).
Lois McMaster Bujold: Proto Zoa. Made up of: Barter; Garage Sale; The Hole Truth; Dreamweaver's Dilemma; Aftermaths (5 stories, collection completed).
Becky Chambers: To Be Taught, If Fortunate (1 story).
L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt: The Complete Compleat Enchanter. Made up of: Preface (David Drake); The Roaring Trumpet; The Mathematics of Magic; The Castle of Iron; The Wall of Serpents; The Green Magician (6 entries, collection completed).
Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan (editors): The New Space Opera 01. Made up of: Introduction (Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan); Saving Tiamat (Gwyneth Jones); Verthandi's Ring (Ian McDonald); Hatch (Robert Reed); Winning Peace (Paul J. McAuley); Glory (Greg Egan); Maelstrom (Kage Baker); Blessed by an Angel (Peter F. Hamilton); Who's Afraid of Wolf 359? (Ken MacLeod); The Valley of the Gardens (Tony Daniel); Dividing the Sustain (Patrick Kelly); Minla's Flowers (Alastair Reynolds); Splinters of Glass (Mary Rosenblum); Remembrance (Stephen Baxter); The Emperor and the Maula (Robert Silverberg); The Worm Turns (Gregory Benford); Send Them Flowers (Walter Jon Williams); Art of War (Nancy Kress); Muse of Fire (Dan Simmons) (4 stories, continuing to read).
David Drake: Other Times Than Peace. Made up of: Lambs to the Slaughter; Men Like Us; The Day of Glory; The Interrogation Team; A Death in Peacetime; Dreams in Amber; Safe to Sea; The Murder of Halley's Comet; The Hunting Ground; The False Prophet; A Grand Tour. (11 stories, collection completed).
Richard Feynman: The Meaning of It All. Made up of: The Uncertainty of Science; The Uncertainty of Values; This Unscientific Age (3 essays, collection completed.) Six Easy Pieces (6 essays, collection completed). Six Not–So–Easy Pieces (6 essays, collection completed).
William Gibson: Burning Chrome. Made up of: Introduction; Johnny Mnemonic; The Gernsback Continuum; Fragments of a Hologram Rose; The Belonging Kind; Hinterlands; Red Star, Winter Orbit; New Rose Hotel; The Winter Market; Dogfight; Burning Chrome (11 stories, collection completed).
Jack Graham: Eclipse Phase/El Destino Verde 01—El Destino Verde. Eclipse Phase/El Destino Verde 02—Nostrum. Eclipse Phase/El Destino Verde 03—Termites in the Framework (3 stories, completed).
Robert A. Heinlein: Revolt in 2100. Made up of: "If This Goes On—"; Coventry; Misfit; Concerning Stories Never Written—Postscript (4 stories; collection completed).
M.R. James: Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories. Made up of: Introduction (S.T. Joshi); Suggestions for Further Reading; A Note on the Text; Canon Alberic's Scrap-book; Lost Hearts; The Mezzotint; The Ash-Tree; Number 13; Count Magnus; "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad"; The Treasure of Abbot Thomas; A School Story; The Rose Garden; The Tractate Middoth; Casting the Runes; The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral; Martin's Close; Mr. Humphreys and His Inheritance; Appendix: Ghost Stories; A Night in King's College Chapel; Preface to Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary; Preface to More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary; Explanatory Notes (7 stories, continuing to read).
Mary Robinette Kowal: The Lady Astronaut of Mars; Articulated Restraint; We Interrupt This Broadcast; Rocket's Red; The Phobos Experience (5 stories, completed).
C.L. Moore: Jirel of Joiry. Made up of: Black God's Kiss; Black God's Shadow; Jirel Meets Magic; The Dark Land; Hellsgarde; Quest of the Starstone (6 stories read, collection completed).
Tim Powers: Artificial Light (1 story, completed).
Robert Silverberg (editor): The Science Fiction Hall of Fame—Volume 01. Made up of: Introduction (Robert Silverberg); The Martian Odyssey (Stanley G. Weinbaum); Twilight (John W. Campbell, Jr. as Don A. Stuart); Helen O'Loy (Lester del Rey); The Roads Must Roll (Robert A. Heinlein); Microcosmic God (Theodore Sturgeon); Nightfall (Isaac Asimov); The Weapon Shop (A.E. van Vogt); Mimsy Were the Borogoves (Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore as Lewis Padgett); Huddling Place (Clifford D. Simak); Arena (Frederic Brown); First Contact (Murray Leinster); That Only a Mother (Judith Merril); Scanners Live in Vain (Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger as Cordwainer Smith); Mars is Heaven! (Ray Bradbury); The Little Black Bag (C.M. Kornbluth); Born of Man and Woman (Richard Matheson); Coming Attraction (Fritz Leiber); The Quest for Saint Aquin (Anthony Boucher); Surface Tension (James Blish); The Nine Billion Names of God (Arthur C. Clarke); It's a Good Life (Jerome Bixby); The Cold Equations (Tom Godwin); Fondly Fahrenheit (Alfred Bester); The Country of the Kind (Damon Knight); Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keys); A Rose for Ecclesiastes (Roger Zelazny). (28 stories; collection completed).
Clifford D. Simak: City. Made up of: Introduction; Notes on the First Tale; City; Notes on the Second Tale; Huddling Place; Notes on the Third Tale; Census; Notes on the Fourth Tale; Desertion; Notes on the Fifth Tale; Paradise; Notes on the Sixth Tale; Hobbies; Notes on the Seventh Tale; Aesop; Notes on the Eighth Tale; The Simple Way; Introduction to Epilog; Epilog (19 stories, collection completed).
Lewis Thomas: The Lives of a Cell—Notes of a Biology Watcher. Made up of: The Lives of a Cell; Thoughts for a Countdown; On Societies as Organisms; A Fear of Pheromones; The Music of This Sphere; An Earnest Proposal; The Technology of Medicine; Vibes; Ceti; The Long Habit; Antaeus in Manhattan; The MBL; Autonomy; Organelles as Organisms; Germs; Your Very Good Health; Social Talk; Information; Death in the Open; Natural Science; Natural Man; The Iks; Computers; The Planning of Science; Some Biomythology; On Various Words; Living Language; On Probability and Possibility; The World's Biggest Membrane (29 essays read; collection completed).
Lewis Thomas: The Youngest Science—Notes of a Medicine Watcher. Made up of: Amity Street; House Calls; 1911 Medicine; 1933 Medicine; 1937 Internship; Leech Leech, Et Cetera; Nurses; Neurology; Guam and Okinawa; Itinerary; NYU Pathology; NYU Bellevue Medicine; The Board of Health; Endotoxin; Cambridge; The Governance of a University; Rheumatoid Arthritis and Mycoplasmas; MSKCC—The Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Olfaction and the Tracking Mouse; Illness; Scabies, Scrapie; Essays and Gaia; Appendix (22 essays read; collection completed).
Lewis Thomas: The Medusa and the Snail—More Notes of a Biology Watcher. Made up of: The Medusa and the Snail; The Tucson Zoo; The Youngest and Brightest; One Magic in Medicine; The Wonderful Mistake; Ponds; To Err is Human; The Selves; The Health-Care System; On Cloning a Human Being; On Etymons and Hybrids; The Hazards of Science; On Warts; On Transcendental Metaworry (TMM); An Apology; On Disease; On Natural Death; A Trip Abroad; On Meddling; On Committees; The Scrambler in the Mind; Notes on Punctuation; The Deacon's Masterpiece; How to Fix the Premedical Curriculum; A Brief Historical Notes on Medical Economics; Why Montaigne in Not a Bore; On Thinking About Thinking; On Embryology; Medical Lessons from History (29 essays read; collection completed).
Lewis Thomas: Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony. Made up of: The Unforgettable Fire; The Corner of the Eye; Making Science Work; Alchemy; Clever Animals; On Smell; My Magical Metronome; On Speaking of Speaking; Seven Wonders; An Artificial Heart; Things Unflattened by Science; Basic Science and the Pentagon; Science and "Science"; On the Need for Asylums; Altruism; Falsity and Failure; On Medicine and the Bomb; The Problem of Dementia; The Lie Detector; Some Scientific Advice; The Attic of the Brain; Humanities and Science; On Matters of Doubt; Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony; Notes (24 essays read, collection completed).
Lewis Thomas: The Fragile Species. Made up of: Foreword (Kenneth S. Warren); Fifty Years Out; Becoming a Doctor; The Art and Craft of Memoir; The Life in the Mind; In Time of Plague; AIDS and Drug Abuse; The Odds of Normal Aging; Obligations; Comprehending My Cat Jeoffrey; Science and the Health of the Earth; Sermon at St. John the Divine, June 1984; Cooperation; Communication; Connections (14 essays read, collection completed).
Vernor Vinge: Fast Times at Fairmont High (1 story, completed). True Names and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier (edited by James Frenkel). Made up of: Preface (James Frenkel); Introduction (Vernor Vinge); A Time of Transition/The Human Connection (Danny Hillis); True Nyms and Crypto Anarchy (Timothy C. May); Eventful History—Version 1x (John M. Ford); How is the NII Like a Prison? (Alan Wexelblat); Intelligent Software (Pattie Maes); The Right to Read (Richard M. Stallman); Cryptography and the Politics of One's True Name (Leonard N. Foner); The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat (E. Randall Farmer and Chip Morningstar); Social Dimensions of Habitat's Citizenry (F. Randll Farmer); Habitat Anecdotes (F. Randall Farmer); True Magic (Mark Pesce); True Names (Vernor Vinge); Afterword (Marvin Minsky). (15 essays and stories, collection completed).
Martha Wells: The Murderbot Diaries 00—Compulsory (1 story, completed). Home—Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (1 story, completed).
Roger Zelazny: Dilvish, the Damned. Made up of: Passage to Dilfar; Thelinde's Song; The Bells of Shoredan; A Knight for Merytha; The Places of Aache; A City Divided; The White Beast; Tower of Ice; Devil and the Dancer; Garden of Blood; Dilvish, the Damned (11 stories, completed). A Rose for Ecclesiastes (1 story, completed).
Periodicals:
None yet.
Graphic Novels:
Saladin Ahmed, Sami Kivela & Company: Abbott 001-005 (5 issues, story completed). Abbott 1973 001-005 (5 issues, story completed).
Divers Hands: Star Wars (original Marvel run) 001-019 (19 issues, continuing to read).
Divers Hands: Star Wars (2015–2019) 001-003 (3 issues, continuing to read).
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