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» David Langford’s Ansible 332 » Sunday NY Times Book Review, front cover: Neil Gaiman reviews Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant » NY Times Book Review: Michiko Kakutani reviews Jonathan Lethem’s Lucky Alan; Carmela Ciuraru reviews Kelly Link’s Get in Trouble (and others) » B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews Kelly Link and Neil Gaiman and reviews Reif Larsen’s I Am Radar; Alexander Chee reviews Jonathan Lethem’s Lucky Alan Wed 04 Feb —
» David Langford’s Ansible 331 » LA Times: David L. Ulin reviews Kelly Link’s Get In Trouble » Wall Street Journal: Kelly Link, Jeff VanderMeer, Elizabeth Hand and others are discussed in Slipstream Fiction Goes Mainstream » Shelf Awareness: Book Brahmin: Kim Stanley Robinson » Guardian: Susan Stepney on The real science of science fiction ݖ Huffington Post: Ben Bova explains What Is ‘Hard’ Science Fiction? » Mythic Delirium’s February content is online, with works by Sunny Moraine, Kristine Ong Muslim, and Sheree Renee Thomas » Events at Borderlands in SF include Samantha Shannon, Randy Henderson, Seanan McGuire, and Gail Carriger Sun 01 Feb —
» NYT Book Review: Q&A with Kelly Link, whose new collection Get In Trouble is due Tuesday » The Atlantic: Jeff VanderMeer on From Annihilation to Acceptance: A Writer’s Surreal Journey » Toronto Star: Alex Good has mini reviews of the latest SF books by Trichter, Mosley, Moorcock, Walton » The Independent: Star Wars creator George Lucas: ‘I really have no interest in science fiction at all’ [also reported elsewhere] » Kirkus: Andrew Liptak on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars » NYRSF Readings presents Carlos Hernandez and Jennifer Marie Brissett this Tuesday, Feb 3 » KGB Fantastic Fiction in NY is hosting Ben Loory & Mike Allen, Feb 18th Mon 19 Jan —
» The New Yorker: Joshua Rothman on The Weird Thoreau: Jeff VanderMeer » Guardian: Eric Brown’s best science fiction in January — review roundup, covering titles by Karen Lord, Gareth L. Powell, Genevieve Cogman, Martyn Amos & Ra Page, and Paul Brackston » Farrago’s Wainscot has resumed publication Events: » SF in SF features Kim Stanley Robinson and Cecelia Holland, 22 January beginning 6:30 pm » Fantastic Fiction at KGB features Gregory Frost and Andy Duncan, 21 January beginning 7pm » The Odyssey Writing Workshop for 2015 runs from 8 June to 17 July; the deadline for early application is 31 January, regular application 8 April Wed 14 Jan —
» David Langford’s Ansible 330 » NY Times: op-ed columnist David Brooks on The Child in the Basement, re: Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” » Washington Post: Religion satirist James Morrow on the Charlie Hebdo killings; Morrow’s latest novel Galapágos Regained has just been published » The Spring edition of SF2 Concatenation is online, with news, con reports, and many reviews » Seattle Times: Nisi Shawl reviews Karen Lord’s The Galaxy Games » New York Public Library on Where’s the Science Fiction for Younger Readers? Events: » Borderlands Books has upcoming events with Shannon Page, Cecelia Holland, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Samantha Shannon Mon 05 Jan —
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» LA Times’ California Sunday Magazine on The halting genius of science-fiction writer Ted Chiang Sun 04 Jan —
» The New Yorker: Peter Bebergal on The Anti-Tolkien: Michael Moorcock » B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews pop science books of 2014 » Domain SciFiDimensions is for sale January Events: » NY Review of SF Readings for January 6th presents Sarah Pinsker and Daniel José Older » KGB Fantastic Fiction features Gregory Frost and Andy Duncan, 21 January at 7pm » SF in SF‘s January reading is with Kim Stanley Robinson and Cecelia Holland, Jan 22nd 6:30pm » Dark Delicacies in January hosts Amber Benson, Jeffrey Reddick, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and others Fri 02 Jan —
» SF Chronicle: Michael Berry’s best science fiction and fantasy books of 2014 are by Byrne, Gibson, Grossman, King, Lovecraft/Klinger, Lotz, Mitchell, Scalzi, Walton, Weir, and Winters » Guardian: Damien Walter’s 2014: The year when science fiction and fantasy woke up to diversity » OpenDemocracy: Mary Hansen interviews Walidah Imarisha about Science fiction and the post-Ferguson world (via) » Vox: Ezra Klein interviews Paul Krugman Thu 18 Dec —
» Ace and Roc Books are looking for readers to help promote their books: see Penguin’s Ace/Roc Books page and this SF Site News article » Here is a YouTube channel for the works of Jack Vance » Guardian: Adam Roberts on the Best science fiction books of 2014, by Leckie, Gibson, Weir, VanderMeer, Hutchinson, Pollack, Higgins, North, Unsworth, Tidhar, Abercrombie, Pollock, and Itäranta » Washington Post: Michael Dirda’s pics for holiday gift books include books about Little Nemo, Fred Chappell, Alice in Wonderland, Virgil Finlay, Locked-Room mysteries, and Robert E. McGinnis » SF Chronicle: Michael Berry reviews Ysabeau S. Wilce, Patrick Rothfuss, Jonathan Carroll » B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem » Events: KGB hosts Gregory Frost and Andy Duncan, 21 January 2015 at 7pm 
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Cory Doctorow: Stability and SurveillanceWednesday 4 March 2015 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's March Issue.
It's hard to overstate just how efficient surveillance has become in the 21st century. Critics of mass Internet surveillance like to compare the NSA and its allied spy services to the Stasi, the secret police of the former East Germany, who were notorious for the pervasive and suffocating blanket of surveillance with which they smothered the country. But the Stasi were engaged in pre-Internet surveillance, and they were very expensive guard labor by modern standards. New Books : 3 MarchTuesday 3 March 2015 | Monitor
John Joseph Adams' Operation Arcana, George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois' Old Venus, and titles by Bishop, Briggs, Chan, Cooper, Drake & Lambshead, Leigh, McGuire, Modesitt, Monk, Nelson, and Roy
March Issue Table of ContentsMonday 2 March 2015 | Magazine
March features interviews with Garth Nix and Stephanie Burgis, a new column by Cory Doctorow, lists of forthcoming books through December, awards and publishing news, and reviews of short fiction and books by Neil Gaiman, Sam Sykes, Paul McAuley, Benjamin Percy, Jonatham Lethem, and many others.
This Week's BestsellersMonday 2 March 2015 | Monitor
Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant, to be published tomorrow, is selling well on the Amazon sites.
Paul Di Filippo reviews Ian WeirSunday 1 March 2015 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
That is precisely what Ian Weir has done with Will Starling. He's taken the kind of nascently-pre-Victorian narrative that might have been written by Fielding or Richardson or their slightly later compatriots (the book takes place in 1816), with that mode's picaresque, loquacious, directly-address-the audience-baggy-pants-style, and created a new instance of such.
Dead, and a Rival: A Review of The Lazarus Effect
Saturday 28 February 2015 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
To epitomize the experience of watching The Lazarus Effect, then, imagine a new film adaptation of Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith (1925) in which Dr. Martin Arrowsmith, after years of quiet, painstaking medical research, somehow makes a mistake and ends up creating the Incredible Hulk. Periodicals: late FebruaryFriday 27 February 2015 | Monitor
New issues of Analog, Asimov's, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Black Static, Daily Science Fiction, Interzone, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Ficiton, On Spec, Perihelion, Star*Line, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, late FebruaryThursday 26 February 2015 | Reviews
Reviews of George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois's anthology Old Venus and Tor.com, with recommendations of stories by Paul J. McAuley, David Brin, and Ian McDonald
New in Paperback: January - FebruaryWednesday 25 February 2015 | Monitor
Jo Walton's What Makes This Book So Great and titles by Abercrombie, Bear, Bishop, Brennan, Briggs, Cambias, Drake, Elliott, Forstchen, Herbert & Anderson, Koontz, Kratman, Lain, Moon, Moore, Rawn, Sagara, Schwab, Weber & Flint, Wheeler, and Williams
New Books : 24 FebruaryTuesday 24 February 2015 | Monitor
Paul McAuley's Something Coming Through and titles by Adams, Carman, Elliott, Frater, Goss, Khoury, Lethem, Molles, Reichert, and Schwab
This Week's BestsellersMonday 23 February 2015 | Monitor
J.D. Robb's Obsession in Death debuts on four lists.
Russell Letson reviews George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois' anthology Old VenusSunday 22 February 2015 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2015 issue
These 16 stories, mostly of novelette length, aspire to resuscitate not only the obsolete, imaginary planetology of Old Venus, but the iconography and tropes that filled the pulp adventure stories once set there... Paul Di Filippo reviews Tom McCarthySaturday 21 February 2015 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Whereas C was somewhat old school and massive, a big canvas with lots of characters, Satin Island is slim and bleeding edge, almost a claustrophobic monologue. But it's a compelling, fascinating monologue, probably the best J.G. Ballard book not written by JGB himself. Gary K. Wolfe reviews Kelly LinkFriday 20 February 2015 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2015 issue
A new Kelly Link collection is still major news, in part because you can never really read a Link story for the second time, much like you can't step in the same river twice. Paul Di Filippo reviews Judd TrichterThursday 19 February 2015 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Trichter's noirish dystopia Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction is hallucinogenic naturalism, a prickly, disturbing descent into a world where only love — carnal or positronic — can offer a shelter from the artificial storms. Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, mid-FebruaryWednesday 18 February 2015 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of Lightspeed, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, The Dark, Asimov's, and Analog, with recommendations of stories by Will Kaufman, Patricia Russo, and Kristine Kathryn Rusch
New Books : 17 FebruaryTuesday 17 February 2015 | Monitor
Joe Abercrombie's Half the World, and titles by Enge, Hill, Manieri, McDougall, Roman, and Tchaikovsky
This Week's BestsellersMonday 16 February 2015 | Monitor
Neil Gaiman's Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances debuts on three lists.
Simon Ings: HyperrealSunday 15 February 2015 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's February Issue interview
To be honest, the future of digital is print. The economics of small editions are fantastic. Print distribution isn't going away, and people are waking up to the fact that there's this fantastic engine running slightly on idle at the moment, because publishing is in a fairly difficult state. Adrienne Martini reviews Elizabeth BearSaturday 14 February 2015 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2015 issue
There’s no better series of words for describing Elizabeth Bear’s newest, Karen Memory, than "excellent grown-up steampunk yarn." And, just FYI, "grown-up" modifies "steampunk," rather than the yarn itself... Faren Miller reviews Brian StaveleyFriday 13 February 2015 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2015 issue
Brian Staveley acknowledges genre tradition, yet still finds ways to undermine it. The Providence of Fire starts with a flashback connected to the title, showing royal siblings Adare, Kaden, and Valyn as children whom their father has commanded to witness an Imperial Deed from the top of a very high tower... Gary K. Wolfe reviews James BradleyThursday 12 February 2015 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2015 issue
Clade is among the most literate and humane contributions to that slowly emerging tradition of what is sometimes called "slow apocalypse" fiction — tales that grapple with the emergent realities of climate change, species die-offs, virulent new diseases, and the inexorable pattern of the world going irreversibly to hell in a comparatively pokey handbasket. Locus Bestsellers, FebruaryWednesday 11 February 2015 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Patrick Rothfuss' The Slow Regard of Silent Things, George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones, Andy Weir's The Martian, and titles by David Mack and R.A. Salvatore.
New Books : 10 FebruaryTuesday 10 February 2015 | Monitor
The Very Best of Kate Elliott, two novels by Jonathan Aycliffe, and titles by Barnes, Carr, Heitz, Henderson, Hieber, McClellan, Simmons, Wells, and Wright
This Week's BestsellersMonday 9 February 2015 | Monitor
Samantha Shannon's The Mime Order debuts on three lists.
Periodicals: early FebruarySunday 8 February 2015 | Monitor
New issues of Apex, Aphelion, Clarkesworld, Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Fireside, GigaNotoSaurus, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Lightspeed, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Nightmare, and Quantum Muse
A Myriad of Texts, Reloaded, or, The Clich´-Hoarder’s Guide to the Galaxy: A Review of Jupiter Ascending
Saturday 7 February 2015 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Readers of this review, at this point, might feel that I am relentlessly berating the Wachowskis for displaying a lack of originality. Yet I am theorizing that the film might have originated when one of them said, "Hey, let’s remake The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but take out all of the jokes." And that represents a genuinely original idea. More grievously, though, the Wachowskis also removed something else from The Hitchhiker's Guide, and from every other film that they borrowed from, and that is their messages. Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early FebruaryFriday 6 February 2015 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of F&SF, Clarkesworld, On Spec, and Perihelion, with recommendations of stories by Paul M. Berger, Kat Howard, and Rich Larson
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, FebruaryThursday 5 February 2015 | Magazine
February New and Notable books include William Alexander's Ambassador and titles by Aaronovitch, Bova & Choi, Brenchley, Grandbois, Guran, Lafferty, Lord, Page & Lake, Parks, Powers, Sykes, and Valentine.
Kameron Hurley: The Privilege to Publish; the Power to PersevereWednesday 4 February 2015 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's February Issue.
Sometimes I think it's because the only ones of us left in this business are the writers with safety nets. The writers who have another way to eat, and have the privilege, yes, privilege, of persevering even in the face of constant rejection. New Books : 3 FebruaryTuesday 3 February 2015 | Monitor
Neil Gaiman's Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances, Kelly Link's Get in Trouble: Stories, Elizabeth Bear's Karen Memory, and titles by Asher, Bara, Davis, Fisher, Flint & Spoor, Ing, Maresca, Marmell, Tettensor, Tierney, Trichter, and Zahn
This Week's BestsellersMonday 2 February 2015 | Monitor
Karen Marie Moning's Burned debuts on four lists.
February Issue Table of ContentsSunday 1 February 2015 | Magazine
February is the 2014 Year in Review issue, with the annual Recommended Reading List, the Locus Poll & Survey ballot, and Commentary by Liza Groen-Trombi, Gary K. Wolfe, and many others; plus, an interview Simon Ings, a column by Kameron Hurley, and reviews of short fiction and books by James Bradley, Brian Staveley, Keith Stevenson, Elizabeth Bear, and many others.
Paul Di Filippo reviews Neal AsherSaturday 31 January 2015 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
What Asher delivers here is state-of-the-art SF on so many levels. This type of SF is really the litmus test for separating serious readers from, say, media fans who might groove to Guardians of the Galaxy but blanch at A.E. van Vogt or John Wright, flavors of both of whom season Asher’s book. Periodicals: late JanuaryFriday 30 January 2015 | Monitor
New issues of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Farrago's Wainscot, and Uncanny, plus what's new this month at Daily Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Terraform, and Tor.com
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, late JanuaryThursday 29 January 2015 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, Tor.com, Unlikely Story, Kaleidotrope, Shimmer, and Farrago's Wainscot, with recommendations of stories by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, Michael Andre-Driussi, and Megan E. O'Keefe
Russell Letson reviews Elizabeth BearWednesday 28 January 2015 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's January 2015 issue
Karen Memory is a delight, a tour-de-force of historical reimagining and character creation, and a ripping yarn full of surprises, and despite Karen’s opening line, I can't imagine anyone not liking what she has to tell us. New Books : 27 JanuaryTuesday 27 January 2015 | Monitor
Walter Mosley's Inside a Silver Box and titles by Cole, Dietz, Shannon, Shearin, Sykes, and Van Eekhout
This Week's BestsellersMonday 26 January 2015 | Monitor
Dean Koontz's Saint Odd debuts at #1.
Lauren Beukes: Shining GirlSunday 25 January 2015 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's January Issue interview
Actual serial killers are not diabolical Hannibal Lecters. They're not super smart. Some of them can be charming and functional, but many of them are pathetic lonesome losers who feel powerless in the world. ... They're not monsters; they're vile opportunists. New Books : January SupplementalSaturday 24 January 2015 | Monitor
The Collectors' Book of Virgil Finlay and titles by Strayhorn, Sykes, and Williams
Spotlight On: David Pomerico, Editorial DirectorFriday 23 January 2015 | Perspectives
My vision is to help continue the great science fiction and fantasy tradition at Harper Voyager. Voyager has been doing such an amazing job in terms of fantasy. I think one area that I'm really excited about is expanding our list a bit, specifically in terms of science fiction.
Classic Reprints: JanuaryThursday 22 January 2015 | Monitor
A collection of Harlan Ellison's award-winning short fiction, two novels by Greg Egan, and the first novel of Jacqueline Carey
Paul Di Filippo reviews Michael MoorcockWednesday 21 January 2015 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Up until page 35 of Michael Moorcock's brilliant new fabulaic book, The Whispering Swarm, you assume you are reading a straightforward roman a clef, a subtly transmogrified autobiographical memoir of a young fellow named Michael Moorcock... But then onto the mundane scene comes one Friar Isadore, a strange humble little chap who is a member of the secretive order known as the White Friars. New Books : 20 JanuaryTuesday 20 January 2015 | Monitor
The final volume in Dean Koontz' Odd Thomas series, Saint Odd, plus titles by Files, Fine, Hocking, O'Flaherty, Powers, and Pratchett/Stewart/Cohen
This Week's BestsellersMonday 19 January 2015 | Monitor
Brandon Sanderson's Firefight debuts.
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, mid-JanuarySunday 18 January 2015 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of Clarkesworld, Uncanny, and Aoex, and in the debut issue of Straeon
New in Paperback: JanuarySaturday 17 January 2015 | Monitor
Joe Haldeman's Work Done for Hire, Stephen King's Mr. Mercedes, Allen Steele's V-S Day, and titles by Cook, Friedman, Hendee & Hendee, Modesitt, Spoor, Tregillis, Weber, and Wright
Paul Di Filippo reviews Greg van Eekhout's Pacific FireFriday 16 January 2015 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Van Eekhout's scrupulously crafted language continues to flaunt that Zelazny-esque balance of demotic and poetic. He is very kind to his readers by putting lots of background info up front to bring newbies up to speed. But really, this sequel is merely the second half of a single long narrative... Periodicals: mid-JanuaryThursday 15 January 2015 | Monitor
New issues of Apex, Aphelion, Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Galaxy's Edge, Kaleidotrope, Mythic Delirium, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and Perihelion
Gary K. Wolfe reviews James MorrowWednesday 14 January 2015 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's January 2015 issue
I can think of few authors who would try to cast a deeply intellectual psychomachia in the form of a wildly comic picaresque tall tale, and fewer still who could get away with it and have so much fun in the process. New Books : 13 JanuaryTuesday 13 January 2015 | Monitor
James Morrow's Galapágos Regained, Michael Moorcock's The Whispering Swarm, Jo Walton's The Just City, and titles by Black, Carey, Grahame-Smith, Larke, Rusch, and Staveley
This Week's BestsellersMonday 12 January 2015 | Monitor
Highest ranking paperbacks this week are Haruki Murakami's The Strange Library and Andy Weir's The Martian.
Robert Jackson Bennett: SubrealitySunday 11 January 2015 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's January Issue interview
I've always loved the Cold War and spy novels. I love the idea that there's something fake and transient about those lives. These people are ghosts. They go from hotel room to hotel room. They exist in this interstitial realm in urban society. I found that really interesting, the idea that spies live in a subreality of our own... Faren Miller reviews Alaya Dawn JohnsonSaturday 10 January 2015 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's January 2015 issue
Blending elements of mainstream YA, dystopian SF, and political thriller, Love Is the Drug manages to fascinate, wherever and whenever it may go. Spotlight On: An Owomoyela, Writer and EditorFriday 9 January 2015 | Perspectives
When it comes to hard SF, a lot of my interest is rooted in the fact that science is absolutely wonderful. Once you start catching glimpses of it, it's hard not to let it capture your imagination and shake up your thinking patterns.
Locus Bestsellers, JanuaryThursday 8 January 2015 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Patrick Rothfuss' The Slow Regard of Silent Things, Mercedes Lackey's Bastion, Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice, and titles by Kirsten Beyer and R.A. Salvatore.
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early JanuaryWednesday 7 January 2015 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of Asimov's, Analog, Interzone, and Lightspeed
New Books : 6 JanuaryTuesday 6 January 2015 | Monitor
Karen Lord's The Galaxy Game, Pierce Brown's Golden Son, Pete Terrin's The Guard, and titles by Aaronovitch, Asher, Benson, Campbell, Coe, Gordon, Green, Harper, Hendee & Hendee, Hines, Kristjansson, Lee, Love, Merz, Older, Ringo, Sanderson, and Shepherd
This Week's BestsellersMonday 5 January 2015 | Monitor
Highest ranking titles again this week are Stephen King's Revival and Andy Weir's The Martian.
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, JanuarySunday 4 January 2015 | Magazine
January New and Notable books include Jack McDevitt's Coming Home and titles by Allen, Brissett, Finn & Cramer, Fleskes, Grant, Herbert, Jones, King, Klima, Rice, Sherman, and Williams.
Periodicals: early JanuarySaturday 3 January 2015 | Monitor
New issues of Analog, Asimov's, Clarkesworld, Fireside, GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Quantum Muse, and Shimmer
Cory Doctorow: A New Deal for CopyrightFriday 2 January 2015 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's January Issue.
Last November, I published a book-length essay about how copyright is failing to serve artists, and how it has come to present a clear and present danger to wider society. The book is called Information Doesn't Want to Be Free, and it is composed of three snappy arguments... January Issue Table of ContentsThursday 1 January 2015 | Magazine
The January issue has interviews with Lauren Beukes and Robert Jackson Bennett, a column by Cory Doctorow, spotlights on David Pomerico and Randy & Jean-Marc Lofficier, reports from Cheryl Morgan and Tobias S. Buckell, and reviews of short fiction and books by James Morrow, John Twelve Hawks, Elizabeth Bear, Ramsey Campbell, David Mitchell, and many others.
Lois Tilton's 2014 Reviews in ReviewWednesday 31 December 2014 | Reviews
Lois Tilton cites titles by J.Y. Yang, Robert Reed, Nina Allen, Richard Bowes, K.J. Parker, Rachel Swirsky, Theodora Goss, Geoffrey A. Landis, Cory Doctorow, Ian McDonald, Justina Robson, Gregory Benford, Ken Liu, and many others.
New Books : 30 DecemberTuesday 30 December 2014 | Monitor
Eleanor Arnason's Hidden Folk: Icelandic Fantasies, and titles by Adams, Perry, Powell, Taylor, and Vaughn
This Week's BestsellersMonday 29 December 2014 | Monitor
Highest ranking titles this week are Stephen King's Revival and Andy Weir's The Martian.
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, late DecemberSunday 28 December 2014 | Reviews
Reviews of Tim Powers' novella Nobody's Home and stories from Lackington's, Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Tor.com
Periodicals: late DecemberSaturday 27 December 2014 | Monitor
New issues of Jupiter and Three-lobed Burning Eye, and what's new online at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, Terraform, and Tor.com
Classic Reprints: DecemberFriday 26 December 2014 | Monitor
10th anniversary edition of Lee Thomas' first novel Stained, plus omnibus volumes by Jack L. Chalker, Robert A. Heinlein, and Michael Moorcock
Faren Miller reviews Beth CatoThursday 25 December 2014 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's December 2014 issue
The magic that saves lives in The Clockwork Dagger, a memorable debut by Beth Cato, centers around the myth of another mortal woman who lost loved ones to illness and became a lady goddess. Paul Di Filippo reviews Emily St. John MandelWednesday 24 December 2014 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Like all the best SF, Station Eleven is simultaneously a comment on the present moment, and a speculation on where we go from here. New Books : 23 DecemberTuesday 23 December 2014 | Monitor
Guy Haley's Sci-Fi Chronicles: A Visual History of the Galaxy’s Greatest Science Fiction, and UK titles from recent weeks by Barclay, Gaiman & Riddell, Hair, Kent, Newton, Pratchett, Sheehan, Tidhar, and Whates
This Week's BestsellersMonday 22 December 2014 | Monitor
Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven debuts on three lists.
Michael Moorcock: MultiversesSunday 21 December 2014 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's December Issue interview
I think the notion of worldbuilding is a failure of literary sophistication. I only invent what's necessary to explain the mood of a character. I haven't thought about an imaginary world's social security system; I don't know the gross national product of Melniboné. Adrienne Martini reviews Ben H. WintersSaturday 20 December 2014 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's December 2014 issue
While World of Trouble is bleak, it is also beautiful in its own way, and redemptive. And unlike other episodic stories about the end of the world, this one pays off by the time the apocalypse arrives. Periodicals: mid-DecemberFriday 19 December 2014 | Monitor
New issues of Bastion, Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and Perihelion
The Tolkienator, or, Thorin Hacks Again: A Review of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Thursday 18 December 2014 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
One might characterize this film as a charming 30-minute rendering of the last six chapters of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit (1937) padded out with two hours of repetitive slashing, stabbing, bludgeoning, and beheading. Tolkien, one imagines, would not be pleased. Paul Di Filippo reviews Catherine Asaro's UndercityWednesday 17 December 2014 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Asaro plants herself firmly into that grand SF tradition of future history franchises favored by luminaries like Heinlein, Asimov, Herbert, Anderson, Dickson, Niven, Cherryh, and Baxter. It really seems to me that any future mention of this stefnal lineage must include her name as a worthy exemplar. New Books : 16 DecemberTuesday 16 December 2014 | Monitor
Haruki Murakami's The Strange Library, Laird Barron's The Year's Best Weird Fiction, Jennifer Marie Brissett's Elysium, Lydia Millet's Mermaids in Paradise, Johanna Sinisalo's The Blood of Angels, and other titles from recent weeks by Brett, Bullington, Datlow, Farr, Littlewood, Pratchett, Scott & Griswold, Sedia, Sweet, and Tripp
This Week's BestsellersMonday 15 December 2014 | Monitor
Laurell K. Hamilton's Jason is #1 on New York Times' mass market paperback list.
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Cixin LiuSunday 14 December 2014 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's December 2014 issue
The main reason The Three-Body Problem is noteworthy is that it's for the most part a compelling piece of work, brilliantly translated by Ken Liu, whose astonishing control of tone lets us experience the novel as a speculative thriller without losing the sense of Chinese language and culture that makes it uniquely different from the familiar rhythms of Western SF. Paul Di Filippo reviews Jennifer Marie BrissettSaturday 13 December 2014 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
If Carol Emshwiller — oblique and delicate — had collaborated with Samuel Delany — straightforward and blunt — then the result might resemble Jennifer Brissett's impressive debut novel, Elysium, a kind of fantasia on identity and character, what is superficial and what is central to both. New in Paperback: DecemberFriday 12 December 2014 | Monitor
Gene Wolfe's The Land Across and titles by Bornikova, de Lint, Dietz, Drake, Lee & Miller, Martin & Dozois, Ringo, Turtledove, and Vaughn
Periodicals: early DecemberThursday 11 December 2014 | Monitor
New issues of Apex, Black Static, Clarkesworld, GigaNotoSaurus, Interzone, Lightspeed, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Nightmare
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early DecemberWednesday 10 December 2014 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of Clarkesworld, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Lightspeed, and Apex, with recommendations of stories by Tom Crosshill and Eleanor Arnason
New Books : 9 DecemberTuesday 9 December 2014 | Monitor
Shannon Page & Jay Lake's Our Lady of the Islands and titles by Stephen Baxter, Jordan Ellinger & Richard Salter, N.K. Jemisin, K.V. Johansen, and John Klima
This Week's BestsellersMonday 8 December 2014 | Monitor
Stephen King's Revival is #1 at Washington Post and #4 on three other lists.
Spotlight On: Joe MontiSunday 7 December 2014 | Perspectives
I'm working with editor Navah Wolfe on the imprint, so while I do not want to speak for her, I can say that Saga Press is taking the best practices of SF/F imprints, along with select general fiction imprints and children's/YA publishing, and incorporating them into our business.
Locus Bestsellers, DecemberSaturday 6 December 2014 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Brent Weeks' The Broken Eye, Seanan McGuire's The Winter Long, Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice, and titles by John Jackson Miller and R.A. Salvatore.
Locus Magazine's Forthcoming Books: Selected Titles through September 2015Friday 5 December 2014 | Resources
Titles from Locus Magazine's December issue listings of Selected Forthcoming Books by Author are arranged here by month.
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, DecemberThursday 4 December 2014 | Magazine
December New and Notable books include Cixin Liu's The Three-Body Problem and titles by Bear, Carriger, Carroll, Gibson, Grossman, Hamilton, Harrison, Headley & Howard, Latham, Millet, Silverberg, Tepper, Westerfeld, and Wilce.
Kameron Hurley: Publishing's Not Dying, It's Diversifying (And You Should Too)Wednesday 3 December 2014 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's December Issue.
For all the doom and gloom about the publishing industry during the last 20 years (or more!), what the advent and proliferation of digital platforms has given us as creators are options. New Books : 2 DecemberTuesday 2 December 2014 | Monitor
Hard SF anthology Carbide Tipped Pens and titles by Amish, Arthur, Asaro, Dietz, Fowler, Hughes, Koch, Kurtz, Lackey et al, Lackey, Lukyanenko, MacFarlane, Nassise, Oliver, Painter, Resnick, Spoor, and Yarbro
December Issue Table of ContentsMonday 1 December 2014 | Magazine
The December issue has a 75th Birthday Feature on Michael Moorcock, with an interview, tributes, and novel excerpt; plus, a report and photos on the World Fantasy Convention, lists of forthcoming books through September 2015, a new column by Kameron Hurley, and reviews of short fiction and books by Cixin Liu, Shannon Page & Jay Lake, Stephen Gould, Ben H. Winters, and others.
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