As we hit the last few days of the year, it’s time to look back and see how the blog has done in 2025. Spreadsheet freak that I am, I’ve run the numbers, cracked open the data, and am here to present you with my findings. All the numbers are true at time of release, but as some were close-run things, there’s every chance things will change in the next few days. As of today, however, this is how things look.

Top Ten Reviews

• Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card: 1571 views
• Blindness, by Jose Saramago: 1088 views
• Alien Clay, by Adrian Tchaikovsky: 1052 views
• The Fall of Cadia, by Robert Rath: 843 views
• The Infinite and the Divine, by Robert Rath: 792 views
• Children of Memory, by Adrian Tchaikovsky: 743 views
• Fractal Noise, by Christopher Paolini: 633 views
• Broken Crusade, by Steven B Fischer: 608 views
• Pandora’s Star, by Peter F. Hamilton: 572 views
• Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie: 553 views

The top ten most-viewed reviews this year doesn’t hold too many surprises. the first thing I noticed is that none of these reviews were written this year. It’s all back catalogue still getting attention, which is nice to see, even if does mean that this year’s reviews haven’t made as much of an impact as I might have hoped. For context, the most viewed review written in the past twelve months was Peter Fehervari’s The Dark Coil: Damnation, with 480 views.

That brings us to Warhammer 40,000 which makes three appearances on the top ten, two of them by Robert Rath. There are also two appearances by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Four of the books are either award winners or award nominees, but the big surprise here is that Dune books do not feature at all on this list, whereas last year there were four Dune novels in the top ten.

Overall, viewing numbers were down across the board, but this did bring the top ten much closer together overall.

Top Ten Articles

(excluding index pages)

• The Best Novels of Isaac Asimov: 2199 views
• The Best of British Science Fiction: 1481 views
• Upcoming Black Library Releases (2025): 1261 views
• The Best of Black Library: 1258 views
• A Troublesome Trope: My Issue With Found Families: 1051 views
• Before Sci Fi Was Cool: Future Histories, Utopias and Dystopias: 774 views
• On Reading ‘Problematic’ Authors: 769 views
• Star Trek: Section 31: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: 573 views
• The Best of Star Trek: Novel Edition: 544 views
• The Lost Art of Audio Dramas: Warhammer 40K Retrospective: 533 views

As with reviews, views for articles were down across the board. at the time of writing, At Boundary’s Edge has received three thousand fewer views then than last year. This is the first time in eight years that views have dropped on an annual basis, but the drop is quite a small one (this year has been the second in a row that I’ve had more than one hundred thousand views, so it’s hard to complain). This is probably due to some quieter posting months.

However, some of this year’s posts have made quite an impact. The Best Novels of Isaac Asimov has leapt straight to the top spot, probably because of its catchy title. Indeed, ‘Best of’ lists make up four of the tope ten. The list of best Star Trek novels is also a post from this year that has done well for itself, given its slightly niche audience. Likewise, my collected thoughts on various Section 31 stories has made an impact, though largely due to this year’s TV movie of the same name.

I am happy to see that my essay on early attempts at science fiction has made the tope ten, although its companion piece has not. There will be a follow up to that in the next few months. In perhaps unsurprising news, my Best of British list from last year is in the top ten, but my update from this year did not make the cut. I plan another update in April, but might need a catchier title to get some eyeballs on it.

Also unsurprisingly, tie-in media makes up half the list, split between Warhammer and Star Trek. this makes sense, since these are both franchises I have written extensively about, but also shows the draw of bigger properties when contrasted against the much smaller audience of dedicated science fiction readers.

In Conclusion

Hopefully you’ve enjoyed this little peek behind the curtains of running a blog. I don’t plan on going anywhere in the near future, so I hope you’ll stay here with me and continue to enjoy science fiction.