Critical Mass Wednesday, March 27th: Exploration of trends over time in science fiction and fantasy

Andrew Vincent has been analysing posts on Goodreads:

Hugo and Nebula nominees are used as representatives of popular and high-quality SFF publications over a 70-year period (>570 titles).
I accessed the Goodreads website for each title and extracted the topic “tags” as a proxy for main themes of each book. The prevalence of these tags over time are analysed over the 70-year period to identify trends.

As a by-product of this process I also extracted ratings for each title allowing an assessment of the modern readership’s opinion of older titles, and for a comparison of popularity of Hugo vs Nebular nominees.

Critical Mass:Exploration of trends over time in science fiction and fantasy
Time: March 27, 2024 6:30 PM Adelaide, 7pm Melbourne, Canberra & Sydney, 4pm Perth, 6pm Brisbane
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Note: there will be hot cross buns for those attending in person…