Comments on: The Best Short Fiction of 2012 (According To Me) + 2012 Fiction Stats

By: tempest

tempest — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:41:06 +0000

Hmm. yes. Dunno why my data said otherwise. Possibly because I had the Yanez story accidentally marked as 2011 for a long time.

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By: TwistedSciFi

TwistedSciFi — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 20:41:57 +0000

Wow, I guess great minds think alike, because I had The Wisdom of Ants by Thoraiya Dyer and Astrophilia by Carrie Vaughn on my “Best Of” 2012 list. I’m a huge Ken Liu fan too, and my favorite work from him in 2012 was The Waves from the December 2012 edition of Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. I digest most of my short fiction as podcasts and am especially fond of both Clarkesworld and LightSpeed. I also like EscapePod as well for short audio fiction. Will be interesting to see what award season brings in 2013. Thanks much for sharing your list!

By: Niall

Niall — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 10:41:11 +0000

Yep, SH had 35 stories in 2012, of which 3 were reprints.

(Also, in your first graph, should we be on three rather than two? Yanez, Klages, Liu?)

By: tempest

tempest — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:24:06 +0000

Apex editor Lynne Thomas says that the magazine published 27 original stories and 13 reprints. Of the stories I favorited, 8 of them are originals and 1 is a reprint. Thus, I liked about 30% of Apex's original fic. Lightspeed published 48 original stories (if this list of Hugo-eligible works is anything to go by) and I liked 13 of them. That's about 27%. By my rough count, Strange Horizons published 32 original stories and I liked 11 of them. That's about 34%. So, if you look at percentages, the magazines with original stories I like best are: Strange Horizons (34%), Clarkesworld (33%), Apex (30%), and Lightspeed (27%).

By: tempest

tempest — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:43:22 +0000

Thanks to Clarkesworld listing all of their fiction for the year in their reader’s poll, I now know that the magazine published 36 stories this year. I liked 12, overall, which is 33%.

By: tempest

tempest — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 05:32:53 +0000

I discovered you at Issue 24. I read issue 25. Future Fire is still on my reading list :)

By: Djibril

Djibril — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 01:13:02 +0000

(Of course, if you only read issue 24, from which all our stories you mentioned in your September list came, then you liked 50% of what we published. I like those odds.)

By: Djibril

Djibril — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 01:10:31 +0000

To answer your question, The Future Fire published 22 stories online in 2012 (including the 6 sample stories from Outlaw Bodies, which I don’t know if you’ve included in your reading). Glad you liked some of them, anyway, even if none made your top 19 for the whole year!