This was my first time on the Last Short Story Project, and I'm really pleased and enthused to be joining up a second year running. I've learnt a lot, and only read just over 300 stories. But anyway, I should be putting the waffle under the lists. The...

I read 502 stories this year, not including the works that I published. I was a lot stricter on my reading policy this year, giving time to works I thought I would enjoy and permission to skip outlets that I have repeated not enjoyed for several years...

So I read 672 short stories in 2009, and blogged 114 (which means I gave them a score of 4 or more out of 5). Of those 114, 82 were by women, 32 by men, and 25 by Australians. The anthologies I most enjoyed were Eclipse 3, Firebirds Soaring, New...

This year's series of Shadow Unit is a hell of a lot better than the first - and I was very fond of the first series, but the quality has gone through the roof this year. There's far more of an emotional arc to this series of "episodes" from a fake TV...

Sorry to interrupt the stream of end-of-year essays and lists, but some of us are still reading here! Peter Watts, "The Island," New Space Opera II - a sweeping, compelling story of the human cost of epic space travel, of a cold war between man and...