2012: The Year in Shorts

Several years ago the folks at SF Signal started a program of reading one short work a day, for the year. They abandoned it after a few years, but I've tried to keep going with it, with varying success. By including audio shorts, which I did a few years ago, I exceeded the goal wildly (and proved that I drive just too dang much). Some years I can make the goal, some years not, more often than not it is because I'm not doing the bookkeeping throughout the year and lose track.

Hopefully, that will change, as discussed here.

Number of short works read: 186 (as of May 12, 2012).

J.J. Abrams and Others: Star Trek: Countdown 01. Star Trek: Countdown 02. Star Trek: Countdown 03. Star Trek: Countdown 04. Star Trek: Movie Adaption 01 (5 stories, completed).

Saladin Ahmed: Where Virtue Lives (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 015).

Neal Asher: Snow in the Desert (1 story, completed). The Gabble (3 stories, continuing to read).

Gregory Benford: Grace Immaculate (1 story, completed).

David Brin: Gorilla, My Dreams (1 story, completed).

S.C. Butler: More Than Once Upon a Time (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 015).

James S.A. Corey: The Butcher of Anderson Station: A Story of the Expanse (1 story, completed).

Samuel R. Delany: The Jewel-Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction. Read: Prefaces and Acknowledgments. Ethical Aesthetics, An Introduction (Matthew Cheney) (two entries, continuing to read). 1984: Selected Letters (58 entries, collection completed).

Paul Di Filippo: A Princess of the Linear Jungle (1 story, completed). Waves and Smart Magma (A Funny Sci-Fi Story) (1 story, completed). Return to the Twentieth Century (An Amazing Novelette) (1 story, completed). Wikiworld (One Absolute Knock-Out Story) (1 story, completed).

Cory Doctorow: Clockwork Fagin (1 story, completed).

Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan (editors): The New Space Opera. Read: Introduction (Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan). Saving Tiamaat (Gwyneth Jones). Verthandi's Ring (Ian McDonald) (three entries, continuing to read).

Arthur Conan Doyle and Leslie S. Klinger (editor and annotator): The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Volume 01. Read: Preface (Klinger). Introduction (Le Carre). The World of Sherlock Holmes (Klinger). A Scandal in Bohemia. The Red-Headed League. A Case of Identity (six entries, continuing to read).

Harlan Ellison: Harlan 101: Encountering Ellison. Read: A Brief Encounter Before the Real One (Neil Gaiman) "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman. Grail. All the Sounds of Fear. The Man Who Was Heavily Into Revenge. Sensible City. Hindsight: 480 Seconds. How Interesting: A Tiny Man. The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore. Jefty Is Five. Strange Wine. Shatterday. Basilisk. On the Slab. Broken Glass. Shoppe Keeper. At the Mouse Circus. Prince Myshkin, and Hold the Relish. Paladin of the Lost Hour. The Deathbird. Snake in the Crypt. I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. Mouthless in Gaza: A Literary Memoir. Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes. The Whore With a Heart of Iron Pyrite. Pet: A Story in Progress. Toiling in the Dreamtime. First, There Was the Title. Tell-Tale Tics and Tremors. How Did We Get Into This Mess? With the Eyes of a Demon (thirty-two entries, collection completed).

William Gibson: Distrust that Particular Flavor (26 entries, collection completed). Re-read for review: Introduction: African Thumb Piano (one entry, continuing to re-read).

Damon Knight: Orbit 4. Read: Windsong by Kate Wilhelm. Probable Cause by Charles L. Harness. Shattered Like a Glass Goblin by Harlan Ellison (three entries, continuing to read).

Diverse Handes: The Paris Review Issue 197. Interview with Samuel R. Delany. Interview with William Gibson (2 entries, magazine completed as I found the rest pretty "meh").

Joe Lansdale: Bubba Ho-Tep (1 story, completed).

Fritz Leiber: Selected Stories (edited by Jonathan Strahan and Charles N. Brown). Read: Introduction (Neil Gaiman). Smoke Ghost (two entries, continuing to read).

Linda Nagata: Hooks, Nets, and Time: A Science Fiction Short Story In the Tide (2 stories, completed).

Jamie Todd Rubin: In the Cloud (1 story, completed).

Chris Ryall and Amber Benson and Ashley Wood: Zombies vs. Robots: Mademoiselle Consuela and Her Army of One (1 story, completed).

Chris Ryall and Lincoln Crisler and Ashley Wood: Zombies vs. Robots: Kettletop's Revisionary Plot (1 story, completed).

Chris Ryall and Nancy Collins: Zombies vs. Robots: Angus: Zombie vs. Robot Fighter (1 story, completed).

Chris Ryall and Brea Grant and Ashley Wood: Zombies vs. Robots: Pammi Shaw—Creator of Gods and Also Blogger (1 story, completed).

Chris Ryall and Steve Rasnic Tam and Ashley Wood: Zombies vs. Robots: To Denver (With Hiram Battling Zombies) (1 story, completed).

Chris Ryall and Kaaron Warren: Zombies vs. Robots: The River of Memory (1 story, completed).

Chris Ryall and Don Webb and Ashley Wood: Zombies vs. Robots: The Wizards vs. the Bots (1 story, completed)

John Scalzi: The President's Brain is Missing. An Election. The Tale of the Wicked (3 stories, all completed).

Clifford D. Simak: Over the River & Through the Woods. Read: Introduction (Poul Anderson). A Death in the House. The Big Front Yard. Good Night, Mr. James. Dusty Zebra. Neighbor. Over the River & Through the Woods. Construction Shack. The Grotto of the Dancing Deer (nine entries, collection completed).

Norman Spinrad: An Experiment in Autobiography (1 essay, completed).

Bruce Sterling: Gothic High-Tech (two stories, continuing to read).

Jack Vance: The Dying Earth. Read: Turjan of Miir. Mazirian the Magician. T'sais (three entries, continuing to read).

Gene Wolfe: The Very Best of Gene Wolfe (three entries, continuing to read).