2011: The Year in Shorts

Several years ago, the folks at SF Signal put forth the challenge to read one short work a day. I've tried to keep that up and have matched at least 365 shorts works for the past several years (the current status of the readers at SF Signal, well, less said the better...I rule!).

So once again, here is a list of short works read. I am splitting off (but still counting ultimately) the audio shorts as it made the list too "busy".

Count (as of December 8, 2011): 221 (probably somewhat inaccurate and undercounting actual number).

Short Works: Independent, Anthologized, Single Author, Multi-Author:

John Joseph Adams: The Living Dead (10 stories, continuing to read). The Living Dead 02 (6 stories previous, continuing to read).

Poul Anderson: The Van Rijn Method (10 entries, continuing to read). (Omnibus review here.)

Dan Abnett (editor): Warhammer 40,000: Sabbat Worlds (3 stories previous, 6 stories in 2011, collection completed).

Charlie Jane Anders: The Fermi Pardox is Our Business Model (1 story, completed).

Christopher Anvil: Interstellar Patrol (10 stories read previous, continuing to read).

Jacob M. Appel: Fallout (1 story, completed).

Alex Berenson: Lost in Kandahar (1 story, completed).

John Berlyne (compiler and editor): Powers: Secret Histories—A Bibliography (20 entries previous, continuing to read).

Holly Black and Ellen Kushner (editors): Welcome to Bordertown: New Stories and Poems of the Borderlands (8 entries, continuing to read).

Jorge Luis Borges: The Library of Babel (1 story, completed).

Leigh Brackett: Martian Quest (7 stories previous, continuing to read) (samples here).

David Brin: Tank Farm Dynamo (1 story, completed).

Jim Butcher: Side Jobs (11 stories, collection completed).

Ted Chiang: The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate (1 story, completed).

L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt: Tales from Gavagan's Bar (10 stories read previous, continuing to read).

Charles De Lint: The Very Best of Charles De Lint (30 stories, collection completed).

Philip K. Dick: The King of the Elves (The Complete Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume 01) (1 story read, continuing to read).

Paul Di Filippo: How to Write Science Fiction (2 entries, completed).

David Drake: The Complete Hammer's Slammers Volume 01 (20 entries previous, 3 entries currently, collection completed).

Harlan Ellison: The Essential Ellison (32 entries read previous, continuing to read). Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed (20 entries, collection completed). The Harlan Ellison Hornbook (56 entries, collection completed).

Fred Gallagher & Thomas Knapp: Behind the Masque: A MegaTokyo Endgames Short Story (1 entry, completed).

Marc Gascoigne & Christian Dunn (editors): Let the Galaxy Burn (23 entries previous, 1 entry in 2011, continuing to read).

Eric Flint (editor): Ring of Fire 01 (16 entries, collection completed) (available for free in the Baen Free Library!).

Fritz Leiber: The Ghost Light (6 stories read, continuing to read).

Edward Lipsett (editor): Speculative Japan 02 (2 stories read, continuing to read).

Barry Malzberg: Breakfast in the Ruins (24 essays previous, continuing to read).

John Mierau: Harlan's Wake (1 story, completed).

Michael Moorcock: Eric, Stealer of Souls (9 stories previous, continuing to read).

Larry Niven: Tales from Known Space (9 stories previous, continuing to read).

David Pearlman: The Vatican's Secret Cabinet (1 story, completed).

Jerry Pournelle: Exile and Glory (7 stories and 1 novel, stories completed, continuing to read novel).

Jamie Todd Rubin: If By Reason of Strength (1 story, completed).

Rudy Rucker & Bruce Sterling: Good Night, Moon (1 story, completed).

John Scalzi: How I Proposed to my Wife: An Alien Sex Story (1 story, completed). Judge Sn Goes Golfing (1 story, completed).

Michael Swanwick & Eileen Gunn: Zeppelin City (1 story, completed).

Jeff VanderMeer: Secret Lives (1 story, completed).

Vernor Vinge: Fast Times at Fairmont High (1 story, completed).

Non-Fiction Periodical Reading:

Locus Magazine: January 2011; February 2011; March 2011; April 2011; May 2011 (each counts as two).