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 than any other zine/journal
- 2017 saw the highest number of unique publishers of short SFT (48 different zines/journals)
long-form SFT
- Spanish SFT is in the top 3 every year
- peak long-form SFT was in 2018
- 2018 saw the highest # of novels published
- 2020- highest # of collections
- 2018 and 2019- highest # of anthologies
- 2018- highest # of unique publishers (58)
