THE DEEP ONES: Spring 2022 Discussion Schedule

6-Apr "The Mines of Falun" by E. T. A. Hoffmann (1819)
13-Apr "The Friends of the Friends" by Henry James (1896)
20-Apr "The Red Bungalow" by Bithia Mary Croker (1919)
27-Apr "The Doom That Came to Sarnath" by H. P. Lovecraft (1920)
4-May "Reanimator" by H. P. Lovecraft (1922)
11-May "The Oath of Hul Jok" by Dyalhis Nictzin (1925)
18-May "Roaring Towers" by Stella Gibbons (1930)
25-May "Black Bargain" by Robert Bloch (1942)
1-Jun "Jeroboam Henley's Debt" by Charles R. Saunders (1982)
8-Jun "Shift" by Nalo Hopkinson (2002)
15-Jun "Reading in Bed" by Joan Aiken (2011)
22-Jun "Starfish" by Karen Tidbeck (2016)
29-Jun "The Mermaid Astronaut" by Yoon Ha Lee (2020)

Well, with a dearth of nominations, everything made the cut, and we just barely got enough stories to cover the full quarter. There were 5 nominators--one more than last quarter--and at least 10 selectors.

This is the first time in a long while that we've had two stories by a single author (HPL). The highest net vote (10) went to "The Mines of Falun" and the lowest (2) to "Shift." Still a nice wide range, with a typical lull in the later part of the 20th century, possibly having to do with availability as much as anything else. (Earlier material is more widely reprinted; later more likely to be online.)

I am among those who have not been as engaged: in reading, in weekly threads, in nominations. For my part it's not so much less interest as my continued struggle with time. In the prior quarter, I read in the Deep Ones and neglected my own reviews and reading. I seem to have inverted that this quarter, unfortunately.

That said, quite a few authors that are new to me, or familiar only by reputation. Could be a good slate.

>1 paradoxosalpha:

Thanks for tallying the votes and putting the schedule together.

I have read eight of these authors already, I think.

Thanks, as ever, for keeping the wheels running.

I'm hoping nominations will tick up again, but this doesn't look like a bad slate. About a third of the authors are new to me, and just over half the stories.

Thanks for the tabulation and results. Good list divided 50/50 between male & female writers.

>6 AndreasJ:

Lee identifies as male these days, so that’s debatable.

(I have no wish to have that debate here, I’m just pointing out the issue.)