I recently took a look at trends in SFT between 2016 and 2021, and I found some pretty interesting facts: short-form SFT Spanish and Chinese SFT are in the top three every year peak short SFT (i.e. the highest number published) was in 2019 Clarkesworld brings Anglophone readers more SFT
This year, I tried something different. Instead of just looking at how many short stories were published in magazines/webzines, and then grouping collections with novels and anthologies (while not pulling out the separate short stories in those collections), I decided to lay out how many short stories were published in zines and how many were
Despite being an awful year in many respects, 2020 did give us some wonderful SFT from all around the world, enriching the genre and introducing Anglophone readers to new authors and styles. From German high fantasy to Romanian steampunk, and from Spanish horror to Japanese magical realism, the SFT of 2020 showed us just how
While SFT comes to us from many different languages and nations, some continue to dominate year after year (Japanese, French, and Spanish). Japanese SFT made up the largest book-length chunk in 2019 (22.2%), with French (15.6%) and German (13.3%) coming in second and third, respectively. Short fiction, however, was dominated by Spanish (21.7%) stories, followed by
SFT 2018 Stats Standalone Short SFT total: 67 Chinese- 21 (31.3%) published in Apex, Clarkesworld, F&SF, Future Science Fiction Digest, Lightspeed, MIT Technology Review, New Yorker, Samovar Spanish- 16 (23.9%) (Argentina, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Mexico, Spain, Venezuela) published in Analog, Big Echo, Cascadia Subduction Zone,
2017 has been a fantastic year for SFT! With novels and stories from Japan to Slovakia, there’s no shortage of wonderful things to read. Standalone Short SFT total: 73 Chinese- 14 (19.4%) (China, Hong Kong) published in Clarkesworld, seat14c.com, Anomaly 25, LARB China Channel, Read
SHORT-FORM FICTION Stories in magazines/webzines total: 73 Chinese- 20 (27.4%) (China) published in: Clarkesworld, SQ Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, Pathlight, Tor.com, Paper Republic Spanish- 14 (19.2%) (Argentina, Cuba, Mexico, Spain) published in The Short Story Project, Persistent Visions Magazine, Words Without Borders, Weird Fiction Review, SuperSonic, Strange Horizons,
2016 stats Standalone Short SFT total: 52 Chinese- 20 (38.5%) published in Tales of Our Time, Clarkesworld, SQ Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, Pathlight, Tor.com, Paper Republic Spanish- 12 (23.1%) (Argentina, Cuba, Mexico, Spain) published in The Short Story Project, Persistent Visions, Words Without Borders,
