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» The Atlantic: Chris Beckett on The Underrated, Universal Appeal of Science Fiction » Salon: Elizabeth Hand, Saved by Obamacare » Mike Allen offers three stories from Clockwork Phoenix 3 » Nature has a story by Preston Grassman » Andrew Fox on The New Immortality of Authors and Books » B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews William R. Forschten » HuffPo: Jacob Bacharach on how All Good Books Are Weird Books Fri 11 Apr —
» B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews Kim Stanley Robinson’s Shaman and The Time Traveler’s Almanac » Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Sedgwick, Baggott, Hutchinson, Weir, Bach, Dietz » SFGate: Michael Berry reviews Weir, Sternbergh, Cutter » Amazing Stories interviews David Langford and John Clute about The SF Encyclopedia » B&N interviews Christopher Priest » Guardian: Damien Walter on how Science fiction needs to reflect that the future is queer » Updated list of Science Fiction Stories with Good Astronomy & Physics, compiled by Andrew Fraknoi » UC Riverside hosts “A Day of Latino Science Fiction” on April 30 » Upcoming events at Borderlands Books in San Francisco include Eileen Gunn, Emily Jiang and April Chu, Tim Pratt and Heather Shaw, Daryl Gregory, Seanan McGuire, Marie Brennan Fri 04 Apr —
» David Langford’s Ansible 321 » Never mind the title, here’s K. Tempest Bradford on NPR reviewing works by this year’s nominees for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer » B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews Kenneth Calhoun’s Black Moon » The New York Review of Science Fiction Readings presents A Tribute to Robert Sheckley, April 7th beginning 6:30pm, featuring Alisa Kwitney (Sheckley), Ziva Kwitney, Henry Wessells, Ellen Datlow, and Michael Swanwick » Fantastic Fiction at KGB, hosted by Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel, present Douglas Clgg and John Langan, April 16th at 7pm » Dark Delicacies in Burbank CA hosts Mike Mignola, Steve Niles, David J. Schow, Darryl Dawon, Lisa Dominique Machat, DH Altair, this next week Mon 31 Mar —
» Photos from the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts from Ellen Datlow and James Patrick Kelly. Wed 19 Mar —
» LA Review of Books: Alvaro Zinos-Amaro reviews five novels by Norman Spinrad » NPR: Jason Sheehan reviews Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer’s The Time Traveler’s Almanac Sat 15 Mar —
» New York Times profiles S. T. Joshi, Lovecraft devotee and atheist » Entertainment Weekly gives Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation a full page review with a grade of B+ Fri 07 Mar —
» Lots of comments to Cory Doctorow’s latest column Cold Equations and Moral Hazard (scroll down) » Boulder Weekly profiles Carrie Vaughn » Wired looks back at Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love » New content at Mythic Delirium 0.3 Mon 03 Mar —
» David Langford’s Ansible 320 » Toronto Star: Alex Good reviews Schroeder, VanderMeer, Peek, Costello & Hautala » Globe and Mail: Jared Bland reviews VanderMeer’s Annihilation » Hudson NJ Reporter profiles Jeff Somers Wed 26 Feb —
» LA Review of Books interviews Ken MacLeod, with discussion of his new novel Descent » Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies: George Slusser inteviews Gregory Benford » Lots of reviews of Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation: Laura Miller at Salon; John Domini in Miami Herald; Tara Wanda Merrigan in GQ; Justin Alvarez in Paris Review » Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reviews Jo Walton’s What Makes This Book So Great » Ellen Datlow’s photos from KGB reading 19 Feb, with Kiini Ibura Salaam and Felix Gilman Thu 13 Feb —
» New York Times on how Books Are Rolled Out Faster, with prime example Jeff VanderMeer, whose new trilogy is coming out in February, May, and September » Washington Post: Nancy Hightower reviews James L. Cambias, Rachel Bach, Scott Sigler » Minneapolis Star Tribune reviews Alan DeNiro’s Tyrannia and other renditions » NPR interviews Marcel Theroux » LA Times: Elizabeth Hand reviews Marcel Theroux’s Strange Bodies: “a contemporary reimagining of Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein,’ with one of the titans of English literature standing in for the monster.”   
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Classic Reprints: AprilFriday 18 April 2014 | Monitor
A new collection of early work by Jack Vance, SF Gateway omnibuses by Burroughs, Compton, and Cooper, and other titles by Chandler, Jordan, and Lumley
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, mid-AprilThursday 17 April 2014 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of Subterranean, F&SF, and Kaleidotrope
Paul Di Filippo reviews Robert Moore WilliamsWednesday 16 April 2014 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Sometimes reading these humus authors delivers a certain kind of modest, unique pleasure otherwise unobtainable. With them, you don't confront the pressure of being worthy of their masterpieces. They labored in quiet and without expectations or constraints, rewarded so long as they delivered on time. ... By any standard, the forgotten Robert Moore Williams was one such figure. New Books : 15 AprilTuesday 15 April 2014 | Monitor
Hal Duncan's Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions, essays on ecology and SF edited by Gerry Canavan & Kim Stanley Robinson, Ellen Datlow's Lovecraft's Monsters, The Art of Ian Miller, and novels by Asher, Bova, Cameron, Davidson, Edwards, Riopelle, and Sullivan
This Week's BestsellersMonday 14 April 2014 | Monitor
Ian Doescher's Williams Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back ranks on three lists.
Amish: Humility of a WitnessSunday 13 April 2014 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's April Issue interview
My book was rejected by every publisher I sent it to. One publisher explained in very clear terms why the book had no hope. ... So I'm self-published. Periodicals: mid-AprilSaturday 12 April 2014 | Monitor
New issues of Aurealis, Kaleidotrope, Mythic Delirium (the final print issue), The New York Review of Science Fiction, and Perihelion
Tim Pratt reviews Alan DeNiroFriday 11 April 2014 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's April 2014 issue
DeNiro never over-explains, and we rarely learn more about the strange worlds he shows us than what the viewpoint characters know or bother to speculate about, and since angels with flying guns, telepathic aliens, and immense monsters that eat mountains are all everyday occurrences for those characters, there's plenty of ambiguity and unexplained strangeness. Locus Bestsellers, AprilThursday 10 April 2014 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.'s Rex Regis, George R.R. Martin's A Dance with Dragons, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, and titles by Dayton Ward and Oliver Bowden.
Paul Di Filippo reviews Robert BuettnerWednesday 9 April 2014 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Buettner carries forward nobly a kind of core SF tale pioneered by writers such as Anderson, Gordon Dickson, Christopher Anvil, James Schmitz, and C. J. Cherryh, offering entertainment aplenty with thoughtful meditations on how humanity can get along with itself — or not! New Books : 8 AprilTuesday 8 April 2014 | Monitor
US editions of Christopher Priest's The Adjacent and Pratchett & Briggs' Turtle Recall, Benford & Niven's Shipstar, Laini Taylor's Dreams of Gods & Monsters, and other titles by Armstrong, Bear, Buettner, Jones, Lebbon, Reese, Shepherd, Weber & Flint, and Wilson & Adams
This Week's BestsellersMonday 7 April 2014 | Monitor
Split mass market editions of Stephen King's Under the Dome debut.
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early AprilSunday 6 April 2014 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of Asimov's, Analog, Clarkesworld, and Apex Magazine
Periodicals: early AprilSaturday 5 April 2014 | Monitor
New issues of Abyss & Apex, Analog, Apex, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, GigaNotoSaurus, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Interzone, Lightspeed, Mythic Delirium, Nightmare, and Quantum Muse
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, AprilFriday 4 April 2014 | Magazine
April New and Notable books include Robert Reed's The Memory of Sky, collections by Adam-Troy Castro and Pen Peek, and other novels by Carson, Lafferty, McDonald, Sanderson, Tierney, Weber, and Williams
Daryl Gregory: The NuminousThursday 3 April 2014 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's April Issue interview
When you grow up in a religion like I did, there are some people you believe are better off — become better people — once they've 'found Jesus,' because of this belief system. Why would you want to take that away from them? In science fiction, of course, we would argue that you need a life without any illusions because that's the stronger choice, but I wanted to have it both ways in the book. New Books : 2 AprilWednesday 2 April 2014 | Monitor
Hal Duncan's collection Scruffians!, the first US edition of Chris Beckett's Clarke Award winner Dark Eden, and titles by Addison, Ahlborn, Benulis, Cherryh, Fisher, Flewelling, Gilman, Harris & Kelner, Hughes, Jensen, Kenyon, Knight, Martin, Monk, Schoon, and Takami
April Issue Table of ContentsTuesday 1 April 2014 | Magazine
The April issue features interviews with authors Daryl Gregory and Amish, lots of publishing news, a report about SF in Brazil, a commentary by Kameron Hurley, and reviews of short fiction and books by Simon Ings, Daryl Gregory, Gregory Benford & Larry Niven, Chuck Palahniuk, Seanan McGuire, and many others.
This Week's BestsellersMonday 31 March 2014 | Monitor
Terry Pratchett's Raising Steam debuts strongly on four lists.
Paul Di Filippo reviews Karl SchroederSunday 30 March 2014 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
What Schroeder capitalizes on is the shared emotional underpinnings of the classics. We don't want our new SF to blindly replicate the dead furniture of the past, but rather to deliver the same classic sense of wonder in new clothing. Mission accomplished here! Periodicals: late MarchSaturday 29 March 2014 | Monitor
New issues of Asimov's, Black Static, and Dreams and Nightmares, plus what's new at Tor.com and Strange Horizons
New Books : March SupplementalFriday 28 March 2014 | Monitor
Nonfiction by Brian Attebery about fantasy and myth, Clareson & Sanders about Heinlein, Maurer about Rushdie, and Slusser about Benford; plus an anthology by Steve Berman, novels and novellas by Barker, Block, Calhoun, Edwards, Green, Lansdale, Lovegrove, and Pratt, a collection by Peek, and poetry by Simon & Turzillo
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, late MarchThursday 27 March 2014 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Tor.com, On Spec, and Stupefying Stories
Russell Letson reviews Allen SteeleWednesday 26 March 2014 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's March 2014 issue
Twenty years ago I found "Goddard's People" to read like minimally fictionalized journalism, but V-S Day is a fully formed historical-procedural WWII drama — if it were a movie, the book's date-stamp chapter headers would be superimposed on establishing shots: "June 1, 1943, Somewhere over the Pacific," "December 21, 1941, Peenemünde." New Books : 25 MarchTuesday 25 March 2014 | Monitor
Karen Russell's e-book novella Sleep Donation, Karl Schroeder's Lockstep, and other titles by Ballantine & MOrris, Boatman, Carr & Conry-Murray, Christopher, Dalglish & Duperre, Higgins, Maberry, Nix & Williams, Pratchett & Simpson, Robertson, and Sylvan
This Week's BestsellersMonday 24 March 2014 | Monitor
Patricia Briggs' Night Broken debuts at #2 on the New York Times list.
Paul Cornell: Impossible ThingsSunday 23 March 2014 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's March Issue interview
The series deals with a group of undercover police who suddenly gain the ability to see all the supernatural stuff in London. What's important, really, about these books is absurdity: the notion that a group of professional people, who have their training and systems, find themselves up against something that's impossible. Periodicals: mid-MarchSaturday 22 March 2014 | Monitor
New issues of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, The New York Review of Science Fiction, On Spec, and Perihelion
Spotlight on SF SignalFriday 21 March 2014 | Perspectives
SF Signal started in 2003 when we noticed a criminal lack of any science fiction-oriented blogs on the Internet. Being the tech geeks we are, we decided to start our own blog as a place to share interesting links and bits of SF/F and to avoid clogging the corporate e-mail servers with our stuff.
Classic Reprints: MarchThursday 20 March 2014 | Monitor
The US edition of Ann & Jeff VanderMeer's The Time Traveler's Almanac, first volume in a series of collected R.A. Lafferty short fiction, and SF Gateway reprints and omnibuses by Bayley, de Camp, Heinlein, McAuley, and Willis
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Christopher PriestWednesday 19 March 2014 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's March 2014 issue
It takes a bit of triangulation to arrive at the core of Christopher Priest's endlessly tantalizing and ultimately very satisfying The Adjacent, and some of that triangulation is quite literal: characters, events, and places are doubled and tripled, and the central apocalyptic images are areas of land in which everything has been obliterated... New Books : 18 MarchTuesday 18 March 2014 | Monitor
US editions of Terry Pratchett's Raising Steam and Will Elliott's The Pilgrims, and a title by Glenda Larke
This Week's BestsellersMonday 17 March 2014 | Monitor
Brandon Sanderson's Words of Radiance debuts at #1 on three lists and #2 on a fourth.
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, mid-MarchSunday 16 March 2014 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in The Book of Silverberg and new issues of Interzone, Black Static, and Flytrap, with recommendations of stories by John Grant, Greg Kurzawa, and Vajra Chandrasekera
New in Paperback: MarchSaturday 15 March 2014 | Monitor
Nebula nominees We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler and Fire With Fire by Charles E. Gannon, plus John Scalzi's The Human Division and other titles by Adams, Bishop, Bradley & Ross, Card, Clare, Cornell, Czerneda, Gould, Lee & Miller, Scull, Taylor, Tregillis, Walton, and Weber
Stefan Dziemianowicz reviews Joe R. LansdaleFriday 14 March 2014 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's March 2014 issue
Lansdale's latest collection, Bleeding Shadows, features 21 stories and nine poems. It's the biggest collection of his work produced to date and his most creatively varied. Only about half of its selections are weird or fantastic in nature, but anyone who likes that side of Lansdale's writing will enjoy the others. Locus Bestsellers, MarchThursday 13 March 2014 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane, George R.R. Martin's A Dance with Dragons, John Scalzi's Redshirts, and titles by Ian Doescher and R.A. Salvatore.
Paul Di Filippo reviews Eileen GunnWednesday 12 March 2014 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Eileen Gunn's wry, droll intelligence and cockeyed storytelling magic shine forth like some kind of quasar beacon from every one of these surprising, irreplaceable stories — two of which have never before seen print. New Books : 11 MarchTuesday 11 March 2014 | Monitor
Eileen Gunn's collection Questionable Practices, Ken MacLeod's Descent, Robert Reed's The Memory of Sky, and titles by Black, Briggs, Cameron, Cook, Cooper, de Castell, Herbert & Anderson, Pass, and Sprunk
This Week's BestsellersMonday 10 March 2014 | Monitor
Kim Harrison's The Undead Pool debuts at #1 on the New York Times list.
Joan Slonczewski: Field of DiscoverySunday 9 March 2014 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's March Issue interview
In The Highest Frontier I try to show both creative and destructive expressions of faith. The college chaplain is the force for progressive religion, religion that humanely engages science. Whereas there is another view in the book, the geocentrist view that says everything just centers around the Earth. People think that is ludicrous, but in fact, geocentrism is out there. Periodicals: early MarchSaturday 8 March 2014 | Monitor
New issues of Apex, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, GigaNotoSaurus, Jupiter, Lightspeed, Nightmare, and Quantum Muse
Locus Magazine's Forthcoming Books: Selected Titles through December 2014Friday 7 March 2014 | Resources
Selected titles from Locus Magazine's March issue listings are arranged here by month.
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early MarchThursday 6 March 2014 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of Asimov's, Analog, Clarkesworld, and Apex, with recommendations of stories by Matthew Johnson and Seth Dickinson
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, MarchWednesday 5 March 2014 | Magazine
March New and Notable books include the first volume of Collected Short Fiction by R.A. Lafferty and other titles by Cambias, Dubosarsky, Golden, Haldeman, Knox, Lee, Morden, Pratt, Theroux, VanderMeer, and Walton
New Books : 4 MarchTuesday 4 March 2014 | Monitor
Brandon Sanderson's Words of Radiance and other novels, all fantasy, by Arnett, Bishop, Brennan, Buehrlen, Hambly, Lafferty, Leigh, McGuire, Smylie, and Wells
This Week's BestsellersMonday 3 March 2014 | Monitor
David Weber's Like a Mighty Army debuts on four lists.
Cory Doctorow: Cold Equations and Moral HazardSunday 2 March 2014 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's March Issue.
Two stories have been coming to mind more often than the others lately, and not because of their wisdom: rather, because they embody the worst parts of modern shortsightedness. They present a kind of blueprint for disaster, a willful and destructive blindness whose self-deception is perfectly mirrored in these two classics of SF. March Issue Table of ContentsSaturday 1 March 2014 | Magazine
The March issue features interviews with authors Joan Slonczewski and Paul Cornell, lists of forthcoming books through December 2014, a new column by Cory Doctorow, a spotlight on SF Signal, lots of news about awards, people, and publishing, and reviews of short fiction and new books by Christopher Priest, Jeff VanderMeer, Karl Schroeder, Reggie Oliver, and many others.
New Books : February SupplementalFriday 28 February 2014 | Monitor
Anthologies by Chizmar and Rew; collections by Lloyd and Moloney; nonfiction by Lacey; and novels by Holloway, Joss, Rowe, and Walker
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, late FebruaryThursday 27 February 2014 | Reviews
Reviews of stories from Tor.com, Strange Horizons, Shimmer, and Unlikely Story, with recommendations of stories by Marie Brennan, LaShawn M. Wanak, Barry King, and Mari Ness
Periodicals: late FebruaryWednesday 26 February 2014 | Monitor
A new issue of Shimmer, and what's new at Strange Horizons and Tor.com
New Books : 25 FebruaryTuesday 25 February 2014 | Monitor
Adam-Troy Castro's collection Her Husband's Hands and Other Stories, Kim Harrison's penultimate Rachel Morgan novel The Undead Pool, and titles by Almasi, Bach, D'Lacey, Kashina, Liu, Roy, Shepherd, Stourton, Tem, and Viehl
This Week's BestsellersMonday 24 February 2014 | Monitor
Andy Weir's The Martian debuts on three print lists.
Paul Di Filippo reviews Adam RobertsSunday 23 February 2014 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Roberts's latest, Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea, is a return to such an eye-popping and mind-blowing extrapolative technique, and our author outdoes himself, by creating a book that is so allusive and multivalent in its clean-limbed premise that the reader hardly knows how to parse it. Periodicals: mid-FebruarySaturday 22 February 2014 | Monitor
New issues of Abyss & Apex, Analog, Asimov's, Aurealis, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Black Static, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Perihelion
Faren Miller reviews Catherynne M. ValenteFriday 21 February 2014 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2014 issue
The Bread We Eat in Dreams proved challenging to review. Though the contents range from offbeat poetry to an award-winning novella, in a multitude of styles and voices, this isn't just a random gathering of her shorter stuff. The more I read, the more these pieces seemed to resonate both intellectually and emotionally — like the interplay of themes and movements in a symphony — for a final impact greater than the sum of its parts. Classic Reprints: FebruaryThursday 20 February 2014 | Monitor
A 19th century feminist novel by Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett and titles by Steven Brust and Michael Moorcock
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Lavie TidharWednesday 19 February 2014 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2014 issue
The central conceit of The Violent Century is that a German quantum physicist named Vomacht created a machine in 1932 which propagated a kind of probability wave around the world, affecting everyone in minute ways but transforming a select few into ready-made Marvel franchises, complete with Stan Lee-like monikers: Tigerman, Whirlwind, the Electric Twins, the Green Gunman, Surfer Girl, Frogman. New Books : 18 FebruaryTuesday 18 February 2014 | Monitor
Steve Berman's collection Red Caps and titles by Joanne Harris, Rhiannon Held, and David Weber
This Week's BestsellersMonday 17 February 2014 | Monitor
Andy Weir's The Martian is selling well at Amazon.
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, mid-FebruarySunday 16 February 2014 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of Lightspeed and Beneath Ceaseless Skies and in anthology The End is Nigh, edited by John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey; with recommendations of stories by Will McIntosh, Paolo Bacigalupi, Alec Austin, and Ann Chatham
Classic Reprints: January Gollancz OmnibusesSaturday 15 February 2014 | Monitor
Volumes by Algis Budrys, Pat Cadigan, Garry Kilworth, Henry Kuttner, C.L. Moore, Clifford D. Simak, John Sladek, and E.C. Tubb
Paul Di Filippo reviews Allen SteeleFriday 14 February 2014 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
With awesome, meticulous attention to scientific details, engineering protocols, bureaucratic procedures, and international politics (though the larger war is just background noise), Steele walks us through what it would have taken to build a space plane rather than an A-bomb. New in Paperback: FebruaryThursday 13 February 2014 | Monitor
Kate Atkinson's Life After Life, Lauren Beukes' The Shining Girls, Karen Lord's The Best of All Possible Worlds, George Saunders' Tenth of December, Helene Wecker's The Golem and the Jinni, and other titles by Brennan, Briggs, Chadwick, Cooper, Herbert & Anderson, Hoyt, Pratchett & Baxter, and Stirling
Russell Letson reviews Stephen BaxterWednesday 12 February 2014 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2014 issue
Of this promised cosmic-multiverse mystery tour we get the smallest clues and winks in what generally unfolds as an epic of interstellar pioneering and solar-system expansion against a backdrop of back-home political madness, with just the smallest dashes of lurking superscience puzzles. New Books : 11 FebruaryTuesday 11 February 2014 | Monitor
Andy Weir's The Martian and titles by Edison, Forstchen, Foyle, Simmons, Waters, and Wright
This Week's BestsellersMonday 10 February 2014 | Monitor
Mark Helprin's Winter's Tale is #1 on the New York Times' trade paperback list.
Terry Pratchett: Talking to Other MonkeysSunday 9 February 2014 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's February Issue interview
The whole thing with the dignity in dying issue is that everyone dies, and no one wants to die nastily. Somehow being able to die when at time of your choosing separates a human from an animal. Electronic Periodicals: early FebruarySaturday 8 February 2014 | Monitor
New issues of Apex, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Nightmare, and Quantum Muse
Locus Bestsellers, FebruaryFriday 7 February 2014 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller's Trade Secret, George R.R. Martin's A Dance with Dragons in two different editions, and titles by David Mack and R.A. Salvatore.
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, FebruaryThursday 6 February 2014 | Magazine
February New and Notable books include Richard A. Lupoff's (belated) What If? Volume 3 and other titles by Emily Croy Barker, Ben Bova, Richard Chizmar, Juliet Marillier, Shawn Speakman, Maggie Stiefvater, Catherynne M. Valente, and Carrie Vaughn
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early FebruaryWednesday 5 February 2014 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, The Dark, Apex, and Heroic Fantasy Quarterly
New Books : 4 FebruaryTuesday 4 February 2014 | Monitor
Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation, Marcel Theroux's Strange Bodies, Allen Steele's V-S Day, the US edition of Ian McDonald's Empress of the Sun, and titles by Aaronovitch, Baggott, Decker, Duncan, Friedman, Green, Lee, McKiernan, Neumeier, Price, Ringo, Scott, Tierney, and Wheeler
This Week's BestsellersMonday 3 February 2014 | Monitor
Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark Bites and Mark Helprin's Winter's Tale debut.
2013 Locus Poll and Survey BallotSunday 2 February 2014 | Magazine
From Locus Magazine's February 2014 issue. Deadline for voting is April 15, 2014.
February Issue Table of ContentsSaturday 1 February 2014 | Magazine
The February issue features 2013: The Year in Review, with the Locus Recommended Reading List, commentary by Liza Groen Trombi, Gary K. Wolfe, and many others, and the Locus Poll and Survey ballot. Plus: an interview with Terry Pratchett, awards and publishing news, and reviews of short fiction and new books by Lavie Tidhar, Simon Morden, Neal Asher, A. Lee Martinez, and many others.
New Books : January SupplementalFriday 31 January 2014 | Monitor
Rudy Rucker's The Big Aha, Jay Lake's Love in the Time of Metal and Flesh, Karen Joy Fowler's The Science of Herself, Catherynne M. Valente's The Bread We Eat in Dreams, and titles by Armstrong, Check, Clines, Dinniman, Estep, Jones, Maddox, Rainey, and Wingrove
Electronic and Print Periodicals: late JanuaryThursday 30 January 2014 | Monitor
New issues of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Interzone, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, late JanuaryWednesday 29 January 2014 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Tor.com, Strange Horizons, and On Spec
New Books : 28 JanuaryTuesday 28 January 2014 | Monitor
James L. Cambias' A Darkling Sea and titles by Brown, Christopher, Cole, Frost, Hutchinson, Kearney, Morden, and Schafer
This Week's BestsellersMonday 27 January 2014 | Monitor
Ransom Riggs' Hollow City debuts on three lists.
Classic Reprints: December - JanuarySunday 26 January 2014 | Monitor
Two big collections of fiction by Edmond Hamilton, plus titles by Avram Davidson and Robert A. Heinlein
Paul Di Filippo reviews Rudy RuckerSaturday 25 January 2014 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
The Big Aha — the title riffs on a state of deliberately triggered cosmic consciousness — picks up many of the themes Rucker has been exploring of late... Biotech; engineered telepathy, other-dimensional beings; and the nature of consciousness. Like a jazzman, Rucker takes his intellectual obsessions as chords and juggles them into fascinating new patterns each time out. New UK Books : 24 JanuaryFriday 24 January 2014 | Monitor
Adam Roberts' Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea and other titles by Simon Ings, Stephen Leather, Andy McDermott, and James Smythe
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Leena KrohnThursday 23 January 2014 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's January 2014 issue
Datura, which takes its title from a flowering plant whose seed pods come to take on a more than metaphorical meaning as the tale unfolds, begins with the narrator offering us the Dickian proposition that "reality is nothing more than a working hypothesis." Paul Di Filippo reviews Chang-rae LeeWednesday 22 January 2014 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Post-collapse books are not out to indict malefactors or extoll the Heroic Resistance. Instead, they are all about how to share the common suffering of the low times and thereby lessen it; how to be happy even under perilous and reduced circumstances; and what kind of eternal values remain behind when all the extraneous fripperies of modern life are stripped away. And on this score, Lee's book does a wonderful job of fulfilling the author's intentions, with inventiveness, empathy, artistry and genuine extrapolative vigor. New Books : 21 JanuaryTuesday 21 January 2014 | Monitor
Jo Walton's What Makes This Book So Great, Scott Sigler's Pandemic, and titles by Golden, Kenyon, Powers, Walters, and Wells
This Week's BestsellersMonday 20 January 2014 | Monitor
Trade paperback reprints by Kate Atkinson and George Saunders debut.
Faren Miller reviews Jeanette WintersonSunday 19 January 2014 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's January 2014 issue
Jeanette Winterson's short novel The Daylight Gate tackles the jittery years of Protestantism's first hold in England, where mobs could view both witches and Catholics with the deep suspicion we now reserve for Arab terrorists. Electronic and Print Periodicals: mid-JanuarySaturday 18 January 2014 | Monitor
New issues of Analog, Apex, Asimov's, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Focus, International Speculative Fiction, Kaleidotrope, Lightspeed, The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Mythic Delirium, The New York Review of Science Fiction, On Spec, Perihelion, and Vector
Russell Letson reviews Joe HaldemanFriday 17 January 2014 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's January 2014 issue
Joe Haldeman's Work Done for Hire is a tricky book to review, thanks to its membership in the intrigue/mystery/pursuit family, the pleasures of which include having to withhold from the reader answers to various questions about who is doing bad things and how they're doing them. Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, mid-JanuaryThursday 16 January 2014 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of Interzone, Analog, Asimov's, and Lightspeed, and of a novella by Octavia Cade, with recommendations of stories by Greg Kurzawa, Rebecca Campbell, and Adam-Troy Castro
Spotlight on Galen Dara, ArtistWednesday 15 January 2014 | Perspectives
Why the focus on science fiction/fantasy?
Because as a kid I lived in my head. I wanted magic, special powers. I wanted swords, ray guns, rocket ships, and dragons. I wanted all the cool outfits that came with these other worlds too!
New Books : 14 JanuaryTuesday 14 January 2013 | Monitor
Ransom Riggs' Hollow City and other titles by Alex Bledsoe, Matthew Costello & Rick Hautala, David Dalglish & Robert J. Duperre, Sarah Pinborough, and Brian Staveley
This Week's BestsellersMonday 13 January 2014 | Monitor
Paperback reprints by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson and by Helene Wecker debut.
Stephen Baxter: Conceptual BreakthroughSunday 12 January 2014 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's January Issue interview
It's a great sequence — a staggering piece of controlled wonder. I've been aiming for that deliberately with Proxima and Ultima, presenting a series of conceptual breakthroughs. New in Paperback: JanuarySaturday 11 January 2014 | Monitor
Delia Sherman's The Freedom Maze, Jordan & Sanderson's A Memory of Light, Ian McDonald's Be My Enemy, and other titles by Bova, Frost, Hamilton, Hendee & Hendee, Weber, West, and White
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early JanuaryFriday 10 January 2014 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of Subterranean, Clarkesworld, Mythic Delirium, and Apex, with recommendations of stories by Jeffrey Ford and Ursula Vernon
Locus Bestsellers, JanuaryThursday 9 January 2014 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Mercedes Lackey's Bastion, Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game, Scott Lynch's The Republic of Thieves, and titles by Ian Doescher and R.A. Salvatore.
Spotlight on Annalee Newitz, Author and EditorWednesday 8 January 2014 | Perspectives
We agreed [io9] should fundamentally be about how we are living in a science fictional age, and that it's time to rekindle people's optimism about the future. I pushed hard for the site to be half science and half science fiction coverage — I like to think of science fiction as the cultural wing of a larger scientific project.
New Books : 7 JanuaryTuesday 7 January 2013 | Monitor
Ian McDonald's Empress of the Sun, Chang-rae Lee's On Such a Full Sea, Joe Haldeman's Work Done for Hire, and titles by Brennan, Chadwick, Cooper, Frost, Golden, Green, Hager, Harris & Golden, Harvey, Hendee & Hendee, Hilburn, Howard, Hunter, Lackey et al, Lam, Lee & Miller, Logan, Modesitt, Radford, Rowland, Sagara, and Vaughn
This Week's BestsellersMonday 6 January 2014 | Monitor
The highest ranking genre titles on USA Today's and Publishers Weekly's lists this week are Veronica Roth's YA trilogy Divergent, Insurgent, and Allegiant
Stina Leicht: Element of MagicSunday 5 January 2014 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's January Issue interview
I love the religion and politics — it's part of the worldbuilding, as far as I'm concerned. I'm fascinated. It's part of the human condition. That's one of the things that I think is missing in science fiction. The whole assumption that we've moved past religion, so it doesn't exist in lots of SF. To me that's shallow. Electronic Periodicals: early JanuarySaturday 4 January 2014 | Monitor
What's new online at Clarkesworld, Daily SF, Galaxy's Edge, GigaNotoSaurus, Nightmare, and Quantum Muse, and Subterranean
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, JanuaryFriday 3 January 2014 | Magazine
January New and Notable books include Nicola Griffith's Hild, Jack McDevitt's Starhawk, Lynne M. Thomas' The Book of Apex, and titles by Baker, Blake, Farmer, Hartwell, Kiernan, Krohn, Lee, Martin & Dozois, Oliver, Waldrop, Watts, and Wolfe.
Cory Doctorow: Cheap Writing TricksThursday 2 January 2014 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's January Issue.
Our world is littered with catalogs of the ways in which human misunderstandings turn into problems, and how those problems worsen if not properly tended — they're called self-help books. Take "Twenty Four Standard Causes of Human Misjudgement," the classic 1995 speech by Charlie Munger, Warren Buffet’s business partner... January Issue Table of ContentsWednesday 1 January 2014 | Magazine
The January issue features interviews with Stephen Baxter and Stina Leicht, a new column by Cory Doctorow, spotlights on Annalee Newitz and Galen Dara, lots of publishing news, and reviews of short fiction and new books by Ian McDonald, Joe Haldeman, Brain Staveley, Alastair Reynolds, Ramsey Campbell, and many others.
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Tickets are available now for this year's Locus Awards, to be held in Seattle, June 27-29, 2014 Locus seeks Interns • Digital Editions available 
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I have… opinions.
That probably won’t come as a shock to anybody who has ever met me, or seen me on a panel, or read my blog. Or read one of my books.
Those opinions are the reason I write those books.
Specifically, I write books in order to have arguments with myself, or with other books, or w...
Eileen Gunn Guest Post–”Quick! Act Without Thinking!”
Mon 31 MarLocus Online has very kindly asked me inaugurate their new series of guest blog-posts by talking about my just-released short-story collection, Questionable Practices.
The stories, of course, concern well-intentioned but highly questionable decisions on the part of people who act faster than they...
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