Worlds Without End Blog

After 2 months the Women of Genre Fiction Reaching Challenge is starting to pick up steam! We featured 19 reviews in the blog last month including a big rush right there at the end. I’ve learned that if I get behind on posting these as they come in I’m going to be screwed in the last week so I’m going to be more vigilant in future.

You’ve certainly made the voting difficult for yourselves this time. So many great reviews and its very nice to see some new reviewers in the mix.

• Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan – Nadine Gemeinböck (Linguana)
• The Killing Moon by N. K. Jemesin – Nathan Barnhart (Skynjay)
• Among Others by Jo Walton – Alex Hammel (ahammel)
• Feast of Souls by C. S. Friedman – Lynn Williams (lynnsbooks)
• Centuries Ago and Very Fast by Rebecca Ore – Charles Dee Mitchell (charlesdee)
• Zoo City by Lauren Beukes – Scott Lazerus (Scott Laz)
• The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich – Star Hall (Stella Atrium)
• Witch World by Andre Norton – Sue Bricknell (SueCCCP)
• To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis – Jack Dowden (Jdowds)
• Zoo City by Lauren Beukes – Matt W. (Mattastrophic)
• Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb – Allie McCarn (Allie)
• Among Others by Jo Walton – Barry F. (bazhsw)
• Songs of the Earth by Elspeth Cooper – Barbara Evers (Bevers)
• The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell – Thom Denholm (Thomcat)
• The Mad Scientist’s Daughter by Cassandra Rose Clarke – Carl V. Anderson (Carl V.)
• The Whitefire Crossing by Courtney Schafer – Carrie Naughton (Bookkeeper)
• Range of Ghosts by Elizabeth Bear – Emily Sandoval (ersandoval)
• Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm – Stephanie (Rhetori_Cat)
• The Ginger Star by Leigh Brackett – Rhonda Knight (Rhondak101)

The poll is open now so be sure to vote for your favorites in the forum and remember, there are three prizes up for grabs each month. The poll will be open until March 20th to give everyone extra time to read all the reviews and cast their votes.  Good luck to all our reviewers!

And lastly, The Amazing Rhonda Knight™ has the stats for us again this month:

General Stats for 2 Months

• Participants: 193
• Books Read: 247
• Books Reviewed: 139

Genre

• General Fantasy – 71
• Contemporary Fantasy – 38
• Soft SF – 32
• Alt. History/Time Travel – 24
• Horror – 14
• Hard SF – 14
• Steampunk – 10
• Urban Fantasy – 10
• Military SF – 8
• Pulp/Space Opera – 6
• Cyberpunk – 6
• Other – 6

Authors

• Connie Willis – 10
• Kage Baker – 7
• Jo Walton – 7
• Lauren Beukes – 6
• Anne McCaffery – 5
• Seanan McGuire – 5
• Andre Norton – 5
• Catherynne M. Valente – 5

Books

• Jo Walton – Among Others – 7
• Kate Wilhelm – Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang – 6
• Kage Baker – The Garden of Iden – 5
• Lauren Beukes – Zoo City – 6
• Connie Willis – Doomsday Book – 5

Posted in Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge

1 Comment

Emil   |   05 Mar 2013 @ 12:07

Heavens, it’s a difficult task picking favorites to vote for. All are great quality reviews! Well done to everyone. I think my approach should be to pick three from a hat 🙂

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