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Fri 24 May 11:10 am
The Baltimore Science Fiction Society has announced that Myke Cole’s Shadow Ops: Control Point (Ace) is the winner of the 2013 Compton Crook/Stephe...
Wed 22 May 11:47 am
The Asimov’s Readers’ Awards and the Analog 2012 AnLab Awards were presented at a breakfast celebration at the Affinity restaurant on May 18, 2013 ...
Friday 24 May 2013
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From Locus Magazine's May 2013 issue
Healey here does something rare in YA science fiction. This is not a dystopia, though the world has its problems, but it's not a utopia either. What it is instead of those perhaps simpler and definitely more extreme options is a convincing, compelling future.
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's May Issue interview
The real competition is all the other things you can do with your time these days instead of reading books, many of which are really high-quality and terrific things to do. The task is staying interesting in the face of all that.
Wednesday 22 May 2013
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Reviews of stories in new issues of Electric Velocipede, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Bourbon Penn, and the first issue of Adventure Rocketship!
Tuesday 21 May 2013
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New this past week in the US and UK: Bennett Madison's September Girls and titles by James Barclay, Mark T. Barnes, Ian C. Esslemont, Max Frei, Paula Guran, Rhiannon Held, Hideyuki Kikuchi, Dan Krokos, and Lilith Saintcrow
Monday 20 May 2013
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Charlaine Harris' Dead Ever After is #1 on four lists.
Sunday 19 May 2013
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Special to Locus Online
A magnificent reading experience, shimmering and vital, at once otherworldly and naturalistic, that recalls such fine ancestors as Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine and Jeffrey Ford's The Shadow Year.
Saturday 18 May 2013
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J. J. Abrams’s Star Trek into Darkness is such a superb piece of cinematic entertainment that it seems a shame to say anything critical about it; yet ... certain misgivings do begin to emerge.
Friday 17 May 2013
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From Locus Magazine's May 2013 issue
There's a lot of respectable thriller DNA in Paul Cornell's first urban fantasy novel London Falling...
Thursday 16 May 2013
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Paolo Bacigalupi's The Drowned Cities, China Miéville's Railsea, and titles by Campbell, Card & Johnston, Moon, Nix, Novik, Reid, Sagara, and Zahn
Wednesday 15 May 2013
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Special to Locus Online
Lesser was one of those working-stiff writers back in the day who turned out intelligent, yet perhaps sometimes over facile, goods to suit whatever market was looking for material and paying a decent word rate. Does it seem hokey and clunky today, or do its narrative virtues still engage and reward?
Tuesday 14 May 2013
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Published today: John Scalzi's The Human Division, Nebula Awards Showcase Thirteen, the finale of Raymond E. Feist's 30-volume Riftwar Cycle, nonfiction by Annalee Newitz, and other titles by Abraham, Gaiman, Hautman, McEntire, Palwick, and Sanderson; earlier: Yoon Ha Lee's collection Conservation of Shadows, Sofia Samatar's novel A Stranger in Olondria, and titles by Melton and Yancey
Monday 13 May 2013
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Joe Hill's NOS4A2 debuts in the top 10 on three lists.
Sunday 12 May 2013
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From Locus Magazine's May 2013 issue
Romance, danger, history, and that touch of magic all come together to mingle and subvert tropes into a vivid new substance.
Saturday 11 May 2013
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New issues of Albedo One, Analog, Asimov's, Bull Spec, Star*Line, and Vector
Friday 10 May 2013
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This supplemental New Books page posts titles from the past several months, mostly small press and e-book titles, including novels by James P. Blaylock, Sylvia Louise Engdahl, Alex Jeffers, Paul Levinson, Bruce McAllister, and Linda Nagata, and titles by Bowes, Ekman, Frazetta, Guran, Hobb, Horton, Klaw, Lalumière, Montillo, Parks, Petrushevskaya, Valente, and Winter
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's May Issue interview
My approach is to assume that nothing in history is a coincidence — if any two things happen at the same time, then there is a connection — and to ask myself, 'What were they up to really?'
Wednesday 8 May 2013
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Reviews of stories in Tehani Wessely's anthology One Small Step and in new issues of Clarkesworld, Apex, and Waylines
Tuesday 7 May 2013
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Published today in the US: the US edition of Robert Silverberg's Tales of Majipoor, Charlaine Harris' Dead Ever After, Jamil Nasir's Tunnel Out of Death, and titles by Allen, Brennan, Caine, Campbell, Drake, Ewing, Flint & Spoor, Harper, Hendee, Hoffman, Koch, Perry, Pogue, Schoon, Stirling, and Weber
Monday 6 May 2013
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Charlaine Harris' final Sookie Stackhouse novel Dead Ever After is poised to debut.
Sunday 5 May 2013
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Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson's A Memory of Light, Patricia Briggs' Fair Game, Brandon Sanderson's The Emperor's Soul, and titles by Troy Denning and R.A. Salvatore.
Saturday 4 May 2013
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What's new at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, Galaxy's Edge, GigaNotoSaurus, Intergalactic Medicine Show, and Strange Horizons
Friday 3 May 2013
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May New and Notable books include James P. Blaylock's The Aylesford Skull, Adam Roberts' Adam Robots, Karen Russell's Vampires in the Lemon Grove, and titles by Adams & Cohen, Datlow & Windling, Dyer, Higgins, Hopkinson, Johnson, Reed, Taber, Vance, Varley, and Whates
From Locus Magazine's May Issue.
I get hit up for blurbs, for sales, for reviews, and for books, by various publishers all over the world. Many of these publishers are separate divisions of the same company, but one thing that is abundantly clear is that none of the different departments are coordinating with one another.
Wednesday 1 May 2013
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The May issue features interviews with Tim Powers and Patrick & Teresa Nielsen Hayden, a column by Cory Doctorow, a section on Small & Independent Presses, coverage of Writers of the Future and ICFA, and reviews of short fiction and new books by Paul Cornell, Mary Robinette Kowal, Neal Asher, Nancy Kress, Laird Barron, and many others.
Tuesday 30 April 2013
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Published Thursday in the UK and today in the US: Lauren Beukes' The Shining Girls, Joe Hill's NOS4A2, a collection by Lucius Shepard, three novels by Icelandic author Sjón, and titles by Aguirre, Black, Brown, Chu, Douglas, Gemmell, Hanover, Kittredge, Larson, Pinborough, Serling, and Tregillis
Monday 29 April 2013
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Kate Atkinson's Life After Life and George Saunders' Tenth of December still rank in the top 10 on at least one list.
Sunday 28 April 2013
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Reviews of new issues of Analog, Asimov's, and Tor.com
Saturday 27 April 2013
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Perspectives
People always ask me why a majority of my art centers around horror/fantasy, birth, and death. It helps me understand the impermanence of life on this planet.
Friday 26 April 2013
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New issues of Black Static, Interzone, and Mythic Delirium
Thursday 25 April 2013
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Special to Locus Online
Tanith Lee's lush fiction is marked by exotic venues, precisely and elegantly invoked, populated with passionate characters whose deep emotions drive them to outstanding feats of folly and bravery, sacrifice and love.
Wednesday 24 April 2013
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Perspectives
I made a conscious decision to write more and to engage in deliberate practice. The more I wrote, the more ideas I seemed to get, and that led to a nice positive dynamic.
Tuesday 23 April 2013
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Published Thursday in the UK and today in the US: two books by Neil Gaiman and titles by Amanda Carlson, Tom Lloyd, Sarah Pinborough, Ransom Stephens, and Freda Warrington
Monday 22 April 2013
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Robin Hobb's Blood of Dragons debuts.
Sunday 21 April 2013
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From Locus Magazine's April 2013 issue
In terms of its elegant language, its sharp insights into believable characters, and its almost revelatory focus on the value and meaning of language and story, it's the most impressive and intelligent first novel I expect to see this year, or perhaps for a while longer.
Saturday 20 April 2013
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We should appreciate the genre's occasional bright spots, and Oblivion is most definitely one of them.
Friday 19 April 2013
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From Locus Magazine's April 2013 issue
If gleefully confronting taboos and unthinking convention and turning expectations on their heads are among the functions of art, then Varley is an artist. Nor does it hurt that he is also a craftsman, an entertainer, and a first-rate line-by-line writer.
Thursday 18 April 2013
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The Best of Joe Haldeman, Geoff Ryman's first novel, early stories from Jack Vance and John Varley, and an anthology of ghost stories from Ellen Datlow
Wednesday 17 April 2013
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Reviews of new issues of F&SF, Apex, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Tuesday 16 April 2013
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Released today: the US edition of Paul Cornell's London Falling, and titles by Bowman, McClellan, and Sage; plus, Adam Roberts' Jack Glass available in the US
Monday 15 April 2013
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Kate Atkinson's Life After Life debuts.
Sunday 14 April 2013
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G. Willow Wilson's Alif the Unseen, Holly Black's Black Heart, Karen Joy Fowler's What I Didn't See and Other Stories, and titles by Evenson, Flint et al, Freer, Modesitt, Sawyer, and Smith
Saturday 13 April 2013
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Special to Locus Online
Card's perennial themes are on display here, but in a manner that is neither grating nor negligible. The talented youth who is forced to assume powers he might not believe himself ready to handle. The Machiavellian deceits and abuses of adults against youngsters....
Friday 12 April 2013
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New issues of Apex, Aurealis, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, Daily SF, GigaNotoSaurus, Indian SF, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Perihelion, and SF Site
Thursday 11 April 2013
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From Locus Magazine's April 2013 issue
The master of the historical fantasy has found a canvas large enough for his ambitions.
Wednesday 10 April 2013
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Excerpts from Locus Magazine's April Issue interview
Any Day Now started as an alternate history, and then took on a little more weight for me personally as the back story developed. I began to feel that this was the book I should write, the more personal story I usually manage to avoid.
Tuesday 9 April 2013
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Jonathan Strahan's The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Seven, and titles by Hobb, Kenyon, Lebbon, Maslakovic, Tan & Zaiatz, and Yolen & Stemple
Monday 8 April 2013
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Charlaine Harris' Deadlocked debuts in paperback.
Sunday 7 April 2013
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Reviews of Nina Allan's novella Spin, and stories in new issues of Clarkesworld, Shimmer, and Kaleidotrope
Saturday 6 April 2013
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New issues of Analog, Asimov's, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
Friday 5 April 2013
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Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson's A Memory of Light, George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones, John Scalzi's Redshirts, and titles by Timothy Zahn and Oliver Bowden.
Thursday 4 April 2013
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April New and Notable books include The Mongoliad: Book Three by Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear, et al., and titles by Adams, Anderson, Bennett, Cargill, Hobb, Kiernan, Kress, Lord, Manieri, Pratt, and Valente
Wednesday 3 April 2013
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Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's April Issue interview
I wrote The Diviners because I wanted to write another series, something historical, but also supernatural. I was also very disturbed by what was going on in our country post 9/11. There's a long history of using horror as a means of talking about present-day scenarios.
Tuesday 2 April 2013
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Released today: Guy Gavriel Kay's River of Stars, Kate Atkinson's Life After Life, Ted Kosmatka's Prophet of Bones, and titles by Armstrong, Burgis, Card, Cherryh, Courtenay Grimwood, Daniel & Drake, Funke, Gannon, Grant, Hughes, Hunter, Knight, Kowal, Lackey & Edghill, Marco, Mosley, Pinborough, Scott, Smith, and Wells
Monday 1 April 2013
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Greg Bear's Halo: Silentium and Orson Scott Card's The Gate Thief debut.
Sunday 31 March 2013
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The April issue — the magazine's 45th anniversary issue — includes interviews with authors Terry Bisson and Libba Bray, coverage of Boskone, spotlights on Caniglia and Ken Liu, and reviews of short fiction and new books by Guy Gavriel Kay, Ilie Ruby, Paul McAuley, Gail Carriger, and many others.
Saturday 30 March 2013
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New issues of Apex, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Dreams and Nightmares, Eclipse Online, Lightspeed, On Spec, Strange Horizons, and Subterranean
Friday 29 March 2013
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Reviews of stories in new issues of Asimov's, Analog, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, On Spec, and Tor.com, with recommended stories by Robert Reed, Steven Popkes, and Harry Turtledove
Thursday 28 March 2013
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Paul Park's Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance and titles by A.J. Dalton, Raymond E. Feist, Robin Hobb, Dean Koontz, Stephanie Saulter, and Ian Whates
Wednesday 27 March 2013
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Special to Locus Online
Nowadays we do have a handful of practitioners seeking to play fair with the rules of SF and the rules of the mystery simultaneously. Robert Sawyer's newest novel joins these ranks with zest and enthusiasm, providing a ride both criminal and stefnal.
Tuesday 26 March 2013
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Released today: Robert J. Sawyer's Red Planet Blues, Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson's Hellhole Awakening, and titles by Adams, Ashgrove, Battersby, Christopher, Davidson, D'Lacey, Estep, Gustainis, Higgins, Maberry, McIntosh, Robinson, Sylvan, Vaughn, and Whates
Monday 25 March 2013
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Terry Brooks' Bloodfire Quest and Hugh Howey's Wool debut.
Sunday 24 March 2013
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From Locus Magazine's March 2013 issue
Empty Space would seem to be part of an argument Harrison is having with certain kinds of fiction and, finally, with certain ways of viewing the world and the self.
Saturday 23 March 2013
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From Locus Magazine's March 2013 issue
It's difficult to capture how perfectly attuned to this story of art and artists the prose Hand uses to render it is. But by capturing vivid texture and detail, we feel the world as close around Merle and Arthur as they do — and with an artist's vantage.
Friday 22 March 2013
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The Best of Robert Silverberg, Jo Walton's Farthing, and titles by Louise Marley and Melissa Scott & Lisa A. Barnett
Thursday 21 March 2013
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From Locus Magazine's March 2013 issue
Whether tackling far-future SF, generation starships, oracular magical women, child abuse, or hidden aliens, the voice of the narration and the characters always seemed spot on.
Wednesday 20 March 2013
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Reviews of stories in new issues of Subterranean, Interzone, Eclipse, Lightspeed, and Strange Horizons
Tuesday 19 March 2013
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Collections by Christopher Barzak and Will Ludwigsen, Deb Taber's first novel Necessary Ill, Kit Reed's Son of Destruction, and other titles by Bear, Card, Clare, Datlow & Windling, Fahy, Morden, Pettersson, Toh, and Walton
Monday 18 March 2013
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Patricia Briggs' Frost Burned is #1 at New York Times; titles by David Weber, R.A. Salvatore, Joyce Carol Oates, Seanan McGuire, and Rob Thurman also debut.
Sunday 17 March 2013
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Special to Locus Online
With a handful of short stories behind her, Deb Taber now steps forward with her debut novel, Necessary Ill. It's a deliberately transgressive offering.
Saturday 16 March 2013
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David Brin's Existence, Tim Powers' Hide Me Among the Graves, Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole, and other titles by Bishop, Cherryh, Clare, Daniel, Drake, Feist, Hopkinson, Hunt, Pehov, and Schroeder
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's March Issue interview
Osama was a very honest book, because it's really about me and my wife, even though it starts in Vientiane. The narrative tone alternates between noir and reportage, and the pulp bits are supposed to be pulp. I'm obsessed with Israeli pulp fiction.
Thursday 14 March 2013
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Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Jim Butcher's Cold Days, George R.R. Martin's A Storm of Swords, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, and titles by David Falconer and Karen Traviss.
Wednesday 13 March 2013
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Special to Locus Online
Like prequel volumes Point of Hopes (1995) and Point of Knives (2012), the Lambda Literary Award winning Point of Dreams is a genre-bending police-procedural novel set in a secondary world in which astrology, alchemy, and necromancy are working sciences.
Tuesday 12 March 2013
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Hugh Howey's Wool (in print), Nalo Hopkinson's Sister Mine, collections by Kit Reed and Steve Rasnic Tem, and other titles by Terry Brooks, Ian Irvine, and Michele Lang
Monday 11 March 2013
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Stephen King's The Wind from the Keyhole and Michael Reaves & Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff's The Last Jedi debut in paperback.
Sunday 10 March 2013
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In manners so myriad that a single review cannot provide a comprehensive survey, Oz the Great and Powerful reflects decisions made not as a matter of intelligent story-telling, but of compromising, touching all the bases, and respecting everybody's input.
Saturday 9 March 2013
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March New and Notable books include Will Self's Umbrella, Kage Baker & Kathleen Bartholomew's Nell Gwynne's on Land and at Sea, Gail Carriger's Etiquette and Espionage, and titles Asher, Belcher, Brennan, Brett, Doctorow, Guran, Jordan & Sanderson, Lake, Parks, Powers, and Redick.
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's March Issue interview
I think if you look at any writer's body of work, underneath you can find they're asking one or two really serious philosophical questions. For me, the big question was, "Why do people do the things they do?"
Thursday 7 March 2013
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Selected titles from Locus Magazine's March issue listings are arranged here by month.
Wednesday 6 March 2013
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Reviews of stories in debut issues of Galaxy's Edge and Crowded Magazine, and in new issues of Tor.com, Clarkesworld, and Apex Magazine
Tuesday 5 March 2013
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The US edition of M. John Harrison's Empty Space, William Alexander's Ghoulish Song, Zachary Jernigan's debut novel No Return, Alaya Dawn Johnson's The Summer Prince, Joyce Carol Oates' The Accursed, and other titles by Aguirre, Arnett, Bishop, Bradley & Ross, Briggs, Carroll, Coates, Czerneda, Davidson, de Lint, Edwards, Holt, Hoyt, McGuire, Schwarz, Thurman, and Weber
Monday 4 March 2013
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George Saunders' Tenth of December is #1 at Los Angeles Times for the fourth week in a row.
From Locus Magazine's March Issue.
So if I write a prequel — when I do, who am I kidding? — this is what I'll try and capture: the optimism of people who are kind to each other in times of adversity. Not in spite of adversity, but because of it.
Saturday 2 March 2013
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Galaxy's Edge debuts online; new print issues of Analog and Asimov's; and updates online at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, Daily SF, Eclipse Online, GigaNotoSaurus, Ideomancer, and Intergalactic Medicine Show
Friday 1 March 2013
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The March issue includes interviews with authors Isobelle Carmody and Lavie Tidhar, a new column by Cory Doctorow, lists of forthcoming books through December 2013, news, listings, and obituaries, and reviews of short fiction and new books by Nalo Hopkinson, Evie Manieri, M. John Harrison, Benjamin Percy, and many others.
Thursday 28 February 2013
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Reviews of stories in new issues of Asimov's and Analog and in anthology Clockwork Phoenix 4
Wednesday 27 February 2013
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Special to Locus Online
There are seventeen tales in a book of only 171 pages, so you can immediately discern that Petrushevskaya is in favor of the "short, sharp shock." She believes in getting in first and fast with the Kafka hatchet.
Tuesday 26 February 2013
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Ned Beauman's The Teleportation Accident, C. Robert Cargill's Dreams and Shadows, John Joseph Adams' Oz Reimagined, and titles by Adrian, Baggott, Beal, Benson, Carman, Chapman, Dahlquist, Henry, Hughes, Johnson, Knight, Lovegrove, Murphy, Nevill, Newman, Rendahl, and Somers
Monday 25 February 2013
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Karen Russell's Vampires in the Lemon Grove and Peter V. Brett's The Daylight War debut.
Sunday 24 January 2013
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Special to Locus Online
John Dies at the End is a weird, silly, lightweight, low-budget science fiction comedy. If you're in the mood for that, you'll enjoy it as long as you dial your expectations knob down to modest.
Saturday 23 February 2013
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Robert Silverberg's Tales of Majipoor and Paul Witcover's The Emperor of All Things
Friday 22 February 2013
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Special to Locus Online
Gorodischer's newest from Small Beer is Trafalgar, and it's pure science fiction. Ten stories are narrated by one Trafalgar Medrano, a lively and likable space merchant...
Thursday 21 February 2013
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New editions of Tim Powers' Declare, Robert Silverberg's Lord of Darkness, and titles by Robert Aickman and George R.R. Martin
Wednesday 20 February 2013
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Reviews of stories in new issues of Lightspeed, Eclipse Online, Strange Horizons, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Tuesday 19 February 2013
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Published today: titles by Adams, Barnes & Due, Cooper, Englehart, Manieri, Marr & Armstrong, Philip, Rawn, and Rees; earlier, Tim Powers' novella Salvage and Demolition and a collection by Tim Pratt
Monday 18 February 2013
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George Saunders' Tenth of December remains #1 at Los Angeles Times.
Sunday 17 February 2013
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From Locus Magazine's February 2013 issue
It's Van Pelt's refusal to accept the usual distinctions between normality and strangeness that both gives the book its odd sense of unity — one guiding spirit — and the stories a combined power more than the sum of their parts.
Saturday 16 February 2013
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What's in new issues of Apex, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, GigaNotoSaurus, Jupiter, Lightspeed, Nightmare, and SF Site
Friday 15 February 2013
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Excerpts from Locus Magazine's February Issue interview
I think genre labels are important and useful, especially for critics, readers, and publishers, but they aren't something I spend much time thinking about when I'm writing something.
Thursday 14 February 2013
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Ted Kosmatka's The Games and titles by Adams, Barron, Bear, Briggs, Britain, Card, Cooper, Deas, Frater, Hobb, Knight, and Weber
Wednesday 13 February 2013
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From Locus Magazine's February 2013 issue
...What is more striking is the degree to which the novel reveals Lord's insightful familiarity with SF concepts that date back at least to the 1960s, with novels like Alexei Panshin's Rite of Passage and especially Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness.
Tuesday 12 February 2013
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Karen Lord's The Best of All Possible Worlds, Karen Russell's collection Vampires in the Lemon Grove, and titles by Bennett, Bova, Brett, Collomore, Forster, Guibord, Kittredge, Lam, Locke, Meyer, Neill, Roberson, Strom-Martin & Underwood, and Yep
Monday 11 February 2013
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Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson's A Memory of Light remains in the top four on four lists.
Sunday 10 February 2013
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Reviews of stories in new issues of F&SF, Interzone, Clarkesworld, Apex Magazine, new 'zine Waylines, and a novella by Crystal Lynn Hilbert
Saturday 9 February 2013
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What's in new issues of Black Static, Focus, Interzone, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Shimmer, Star*Line, and Vector
Friday 8 February 2013
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From Locus Magazine's February 2013 issue
A book about economics shouldn't be as engaging as By Light Alone is, but Roberts is skilled at meshing both idea and character in a way that makes each feel equally vital.
Thursday 7 February 2013
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Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Lois McMaster Bujold's Captain Vorpatril's Alliance, George R.R. Martin's A Storm of Swords, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, and titles by James Luceno and Karen Traviss
Wednesday 6 February 2013
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February New and Notable books include Margo Lanagan's Cracklescape, Walter Jon Williams' The Boolean Gate, Karin Tidbeck's Jagannath, and titles by Bullington, Fenner & Fenner, Gould, Hamilton, Jones, Kaveney, Levithan, and Marr.
Tuesday 5 February 2013
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Cory Doctorow's Homeland, the first US edition of J.G. Ballard's autobiography Miracles of Life, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller's latest Liaden Universe novel Necessity's Child, and titles by Asher, Blackmoore, Brennan, Carriger, Chadbourn, Chadwick, Decker, Dornbusch, Redick, and Tierney [Kiernan]
Monday 4 February 2013
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Kim Harrison's Ever After debuts on three lists.
Sunday 3 February 2013
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Excerpts from Locus Magazine's February Issue interview
The core of Silently and Very Fast is something that I think underlies a lot of my work: that the most human thing is telling stories. When you can tell a story about yourself, that's the beginning of consciousness. You can see it in little kids, and it's part of why dogs are not conscious.
Saturday 2 February 2013
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From Locus Magazine's February 2013 issue. Deadline for voting is April 15, 2013.
Friday 1 February 2013
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From Locus Magazine's February 2013 issue
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Five Golden Things — Tobias S. Buckell
Mon 20 May
Five books that really evoke ship life
I grew up on a boat. Tight quarters, sparse living. It wasn’t living aboard a spaceship, and it wasn’t military naval service, but it was a taste of what it’s like to keep your own environment with you. I also spend time working around crew on other ships of...
ICFA 34 – Adapting Shakespeare
Tue 14 May
This is one of the panels I recorded at the most recent ICFA conference. The participants (in order of appearance) were Jim Casey, Sharon Emmerichs, Kevin Crawford, Neil Gaiman, and Conor McCreery. How do you adapt Shakespeare? Is there any such thing as a single true, definitive “Shakespeare”? H...
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