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» NY Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2013 includes genre and associational fiction titles by Oates, Pynchon, Eggers, Bender, Lethem, King, Greer, Atkinson, Atwood, Saunders, and Fowler; the children’s books list includes titles by Yancey, Sanderson, and de Lint
» Washington Post’s Jonathan Yardley’s favorite books of 2013 includes [the US edition of] J.G. Ballard’s Miracles of Life Wed 04 Dec —
» David Langford’s Ansible 317
» Guardian: Adam Roberts’ Best SF books of 2013 include titles by King, Atwood, Priest, Reynolds, Joyce, and many others
» SF Chronicle: Michael Berry’s Gift guide to SF and fantasy has titles by Atkinson, Atwood, Beukes, Dobyns, Gaiman, Hartwell & Nielsen Hayden, Hill, King, Lafferty, and Oates
» Kirkus’ Best SF & Fantasy of 2013 includes titles by Datlow, Gaiman, Gunn, Stross, Wolfe, and others
» Goodreads’ Best Books 2013 has titles, in various categories, by Atkinson, Gaiman, Butcher, Atwood, King, and Roth
» Ellen Datlow’s photos from KGB reading November 20th, with Mercurio D. Rivera and James Patrick Kelly
» UK online book dealer Fantastic Literature is offering Locus readers a 10% discount on all orders with code XMAS2013
» B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews Robert Charles Wilson’s Burning Paradise Sat 23 Nov —
» Library Journal’s Best SF/Fantasy Books of 2013 are titles by Asher, Bein, Cheney, Donaldson, and Martinez
» Tallying best SF/F books of 2013, so far
» Fleetwood Robbins on What People Missed — titles by Chu, Powers, Weckler, Lanagan
» Apex is hosting a Merry Little Apex Christmas Flash Fiction Contest, with a Dec 16th deadline
» Chicago Tribune: Gary K. Wolfe reviews Robert Charles Wilson, Nnedi Okorafor, Hartwell’s Year’s Best
» Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Ballantyne, Leckie, Newman, Lee, Brackston, Rouaud
» Washington Post: Elizabeth Hand reviews Anne Rice
» B&N: Paul Di Filippo talks with Stephen R. Donaldson Wed 06 Nov —
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Tue 10 Dec 2:15 pm
The Carl Brandon Society has announced that Redwood and Wildfire by Andrea Hairston and Smoketown by Tenea D. Johnson are the 2011 Carl Brandon Awa...
Mon 09 Dec 1:44 pm
Writer Colin Wilson, 82, died December 5, 2013.
Wilson wrote more than 150 books of fiction, criticism, philosophy, and assorted non-fiction durin...
Tuesday 10 December 2013
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David G. Hartwell's Year's Best SF 18 and titles by Fultz, Koyanagi, Masterton, and Pinborough
Monday 9 December 2013
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Highest ranking titles remain Stephen King's Doctor Sleep, George R.R. Martin's A Dance with Dragons, and Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game
Sunday 8 December 2013
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Reviews of stories from new issues of Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and Apex, and of individual stories by Yoon Ha Lee, Pat Cadigan, and Caitlín R Kiernan
Saturday 7 December 2013
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New issues of Apex, Clarkesworld, GigaNotoSaurus, Ideomancer, Lightspeed, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Nightmare, and SF Site
Friday 6 December 2013
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Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by S.M. Stirling's The Given Sacrifice, Jim Butcher's Cold Days, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, and titles by Ian Doescher and R.A. Salvatore.
Thursday 5 December 2013
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Excerpts from Locus Magazine's December Issue interview
I believe that there's two types of writers: the brick-layer and the house-framer. Brick-layers have to get every brick in the right position, or three rows up, the wall falls down. That's the way I write and, usually, if I find myself not able to move forward it's because something's wrong a few rows down....
Wednesday 4 December 2013
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December New and Notable books include Jeff VanderMeer's Wonderbook, Mira Grant's Parasite, Nnedi Okorafor's Kabu, Kabu, and other titles by Bowes, Hartwell & Nielsen Hayden, Howey, Jeschke, Jones, Kadrey, Marr & Pratt, Strahan, and Wilson
Tuesday 3 December 2013
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George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois' anthology Dangerous Women, Caitlín R. Kiernan's The Ape's Wife and Other Stories, and other titles by Abraham, Bova, Conroy, Dalglish, Dietz, Gwynne, Hunter & Price, Koch, Lackey, Lansdale, Marmell, Niven, Pinborough, Ross, Tettensor, Tregillis, and Turtledove
Monday 2 December 2013
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Stephen King's 11/22/63 is #13 on USA Today's list.
Sunday 1 December 2013
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The December issue features interviews with Tanya Huff and Hugh Howey, coverage and photos of World Fantasy Convention, lists of forthcoming books through September 2014, commentary by Kameron Hurley, and reviews of short fiction and new books by David G. Hartwell, Kim Newman, John Barnes, Max Barry, Nicola Griffith, and many others.
Saturday 30 November 2013
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Frank Schaetzing's Limit, books on gay horror creators and black sf/f culture, and other titles by Card, Goodnight, Kaufmann, Marsh, Polansky, Richards, Shinn, and Souders
Friday 29 November 2013
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What's new with Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Dreams and Nightmares, Galaxy's Edge, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Jupiter, Mythic Delirium, Perihelion, SF Site, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
Thursday 28 November 2013
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Reviews of stories from new issues of Interzone, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Tor.com, Betwixt, The Dark, and Unlikely Story, with recommendations of stories by John Shirley, Sarah Brooks, Sarah Singleton, and Maria Dhavana Headley
Wednesday 27 November 2013
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From Locus Magazine's November 2013 issue
Matched to his original ideas and refreshing refurbishments of genre set pieces, Ballingrud's writing makes North American Lake Monsters one of the best collections of short fiction for the year.
Tuesday 26 November 2013
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Gene Wolfe's The Land Across, Greg Egan's The Arrows of Time, and titles by Campbell, Knight, Lloyd, Oliver, Pratchett, Priest, and Williams
Monday 25 November 2013
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Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game is the only #1 ranking title on this week's lists.
Sunday 24 November 2013
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Special to Locus Online
This blockbuster anthology from the consummate professional editing team of Martin & Dozois exhibits at its heart a topic that's received much airing lately on the internet and at convention panels. What is the relationship of the genre's past to the present, actual and ideal? Is the medium stagnating or advancing by continuing to create such stories?
Saturday 23 November 2013
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Special to Locus Online
The film as a whole could be charitably assessed as harmless, well-made entertainment for America's youth, who certainly deserve an occasional diversion from the vicissitudes of their stressful lives.
Yet adults have a long history of becoming distressed about each new pastime favored by their children, so some will not be surprised to find an aging reviewer becoming distressed about The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. No, the film will not rot teenagers' minds or weaken their moral values, but there is a message embedded within its story that subtly undermines its seemingly subversive qualities.
Friday 22 November 2013
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Anne & Jeff VanderMeer's anthology The Time Traveller's Almanac, plus new editions of novels by Michael Bishop, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert Jordan, Pat Murphy, Christopher Paolini, and E.E. "Doc" Smith
Thursday 21 November 2013
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From Locus Magazine's November 2013 issue
While this young writer can approach the mix of genres in her debut with a fervency that borders on the overwrought, most of the time her even younger heroine manages to bring a soaring saga of hearts, minds, and worlds solidly back down to earth.
Wednesday 20 November 2013
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Reviews of stories in George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois' anthology Old Mars and in new issues of Lightspeed and Strange Horizons
Tuesday 19 November 2013
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Leena Krohn's Datura, or A Delusion We All See, collections by Baker, DeNiro, Vainonen, and Watts, and other titles by Ee, Fenner & Fenner, Kress & Pieczynski, Mitchell, Nassise, Philip, and Swank
Monday 18 November 2013
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Highest ranking titles remain Stephen King's Doctor Sleep and George R.R. Martin's A Dance with Dragons.
Sunday 17 November 2013
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Special to Locus Online
Perhaps the greatest thing about Howard Waldrop and his marvelous fictions is that he has totally obliterated the modern/postmodern divide. He is Sax Rohmer and Donald Barthelme, Bela Lugosi and Johnny Depp.
Saturday 16 November 2013
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George R.R. Martin's A Dance with Dragons, Nalo Hopkinson's Sister Mine, and titles by Brett, Conroy, Harris, Harrison, Hoyt, Huff, Marillier, McDevitt & Resnick, Modesitt, and Wells
Friday 15 November 2013
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From Locus Magazine's November 2013 issue
We find ourselves in a 2015 in which a near-universal peace has prevailed since the end of WWI — no Depression, no WWII, no Holocaust, no Vietnam, etc. — but only because a parasitical alien collective intelligence called the hypercolony has been manipulating human history to set the stage for its own reproductive agenda...
Thursday 14 November 2013
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Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312, Max Brooks' World War Z, and titles by Dayton Ward and R.A. Salvatore.
Wednesday 13 November 2013
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Excerpts from Locus Magazine's Novembere Issue interview
My feeling about film adaptations in general is that we, as writers, have to win the lottery. It's totally a lottery, but you need a ticket to win, and that ticket is getting something published. The next step is getting optioned — many books are optioned, and few are called. Jumper was optioned four different times by different people.
Tuesday 12 November 2013
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Richard Bowes' If Angels Fight, Howard Waldrop's Horse of a Different Color, Terry Pratchett's Raising Steam, Sean Williams' Twinmaker, George R.R. Martin's The Wit & Wisdom by Tyrion Lannister, and titles by Golden, Gregory, Griffith, Hume, Locke, MacGregory, Priest, and Ramsey
Monday 11 November 2013
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Charlaine Harris' After Dead debuts in hardcover; George R.R. Martin's A Dance with Dragons is #1 in mass market paperback.
Sunday 10 November 2013
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What's in new issues of Analog, Asimov's, and Star*Line
Saturday 9 November 2013
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What's in new issues of Apex, Aurealis, Clarkesworld, GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Nightmare, Quantum Muse, and SF Site
Friday 8 November 2013
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Reviews of stories in new issues of Analog, Asimov's, Clarkesworld, Interfictions, and Apex
Thursday 7 November 2013
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Excerpts from Locus Magazine's November Issue interview
It’s very exciting to be a magazine editor, because you know someone's going to get mad at you sometime. You don’t know when or who or whether it will be someone on the left or the right — but someone's going to be mad. I find that kind of exhilarating, and a little bit nerve-wracking. I don’t set out to upset anyone, but we want to break ground. The magazine is my magazine. It's stories I like. We're out to explore new directions.
Wednesday 6 November 2013
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November New and Notable books include Martin & Dozois' anthology Old Mars, collections by Barron, Crowther, Di Filippo, and Swirsky, and novels by Atwood, Bacigalupi, Black, Howey, King, Lynch, McKinley, Sanderson, Valente, and Walton
Tuesday 5 November 2013
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Robert Charles Wilson's Burning Paradise, Jack McDevitt's Starhawk, David G. Hartwell & Patrick Nielsen Hayden's Twenty-First Century Science Fiction, and other titles by Cat Adams, Rachel Bach, Stephen Baxter, Rachel Caine, Gail Carriger, J. Kathleen Cheney (a first novel), Nancy A. Collins, Eliza Crewe (another first novel), David Dalglish, Hank Davis (a Christmas anthology), Jonathan L. Howard, Tom Kratman, Tim Lebbon, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, Devon Monk, Laura Resnick, and Ryk E. Spoor
Monday 4 November 2013
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Veronica Roth's Allegiant is #1.
Sunday 3 November 2013
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From Locus Magazine's November Issue.
All the money made by a troll from a single stupid patent is much more than the cost of fighting to get the patent invalidated. All the money made by Warner on "Happy Birthday" dwarfs the expense of proving, in court, that they weren't entitled to any of it. The reason the victims don't get together to fight back is that they don't know each other and have no way to coordinate among each other. In economists' jargon, they have a "collective action problem."
Saturday 2 November 2013
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Special to Locus Online
The quickest way to describe what's wrong with this film is to say that it conveys mixed messages. After employing every trick in the film director's handbook to persuade viewers to embrace one viewpoint, it turns around and condemns those viewers for being so thoughtlessly immoral as to embrace that viewpoint. If you enjoyed our movie, the filmmakers ultimately say, you were gullible, reprehensible dupes.
Friday 1 November 2013
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The November issue features interviews with Steven Gould and Sheila Williams, a new column by Cory Doctorow, and reviews of short fiction and new books by Robert Charles Wilson, Catherynne M. Valente, Brian Aldiss, Stephen King, Nick Mamatas, and many others.
Thursday 31 October 2013
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What's new online at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Mythic Delirium, SF Site, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
Wednesday 30 October 2013
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Reviews of stories from Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Tor.com, and Paula Guran's anthology Halloween: Magic, Mystery and the Macabre, with recommendations of stories by Sunny Moraine and Gemma Files
Tuesday 29 October 2013
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Lavie Tidhar's The Violent Century, Richard Kadrey's Dead Set, and titles by Bernobich, Burgess, Chu, Clare & Lewis, Douglas, Gladstone, Hair, Harris, Henry, Hollihan, Holloway, Holzner, Jones, Kent, Lyle, McGugan, Shepherd, and Spring
Monday 28 October 2013
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Titles by Stephen R. Donaldson, Veronica Roth, and Neal Shusterman debut on USA Today's list.
Sunday 27 October 2013
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From Locus Magazine's October 2013 issue
A revenge-quest intertwined with a set of figure-my-culture puzzles wrapped around a reluctant-buddies adventure-travelogue, climaxing in a series of revelations and action-movie physical confrontations. The complexity and strangeness of the world that generates all this requires a degree of patience at the beginning — there is a large dose of guess-my-world in the book's DNA, and some of the questions one puzzles over are necessarily left unanswered for some time. But patience is rewarded. This is not entry-level SF, and its payoff is correspondingly greater because of that.
Saturday 26 October 2013
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S.T. Joshi's The Assaults of Chaos: A Novel about H.P. Lovecraft, anthology Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond, and titles by Alexander, Ballantyne, Brozak, Kirkman & Bonansinga, Nevill, Newton, Pierce, and Rought
Friday 24 October 2013
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From Locus Magazine's October 2013 issue
Ross Lockhart's Tales of Jack the Ripper is the latest in a succession of anthologies featuring stories on the Jack the Ripper theme. Its 19 selections — poetry and fiction — are a mix of reprints and (mostly) originals that show both the possibilities and limitations of that theme.
Thursday 24 October 2013
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New editions of Michael Bishop's Ancient of Days and other novels by Crowley, Dick & Zelazny, Powers, and Verne; plus omnibuses, collections, and anthologies from Aldiss, Ashley, Blaylock, Blish, Davis, and Moorcock
Wednesday 23 October 2013
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From Locus Magazine's October 2013 issue
A couple of elements that may seem fantastical, such as the record-smashing heat wave and the locust-like plague of millions of ladybirds, turn out to be well-documented actual events from the summer of 1976, when the novel takes place. As is often the case with Joyce, we come to realize that some events which seem fantastical aren't, and some events which seem real turn out fantastical.
Tuesday 22 October 2013
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Dan Simmons' The Abominable, Veronica Roth's Allegiant, and titles by Anthony, Grant, Jones, Marr & Pratt, Pinborough, and Rouaud
Monday 21 October 2013
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Dave Eggers' The Circle and Scott Lynch's The Republic of Thieves debut on lists.
Sunday 20 October 2013
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Reviews of stories in new issues of F&SF and Lightspeed and in anthology Rags and Bones, with recommendations of stories by Michael Blumlein, Albert E. Cowdrey, M.K. Hobson, Neil Gaiman, Tim Pratt, and Gene Wolfe
Saturday 19 October 2013
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Joe Abercrombie's Red Country, Joe Hill's NOS4A2, and titles by Anthony, Baxter, Campbell, Carey, del Toro & Hogan, Lackey, Philip, Pratchett, Shinn, and Spoor
Friday 18 October 2013
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Special to Locus Online
The interesting question now, concerning Fiendish Schemes, released some twenty-five years of steampunkishness onward, is whether Jeter can offer advances on the form. I'm happy to report a triumph. This is state-of-the-art "mad Victorian fantasy."
Thursday 17 October 2013
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From Locus Magazine's September 2013 issue
In a world filled with more fantasy series than anyone could follow, a satisfying standalone is always an excellent thing to find. Yet here's hoping The Coldest Girl in Coldtown is embraced by so many lovers of dark fantasy and horror, by readers ready for vampires to be truly scary again, that Black is tempted to visit this world again.
Wednesday 16 October 2013
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Excerpts from Locus Magazine's October Issue interview
The beauty of science fiction and fantasy is that the reader can take it on whatever level they're capable of. The reading can be that multifaceted. If somebody wants to read a story as a metaphor for a political situation, or gay rights, or women in history, or whatever, they can do that. But if they don’t want to read it that way, and it's a good standalone story, they don't have to read the deeper meaning into it.
Tuesday 15 October 2013
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Wolfgang Jeschke's The Cusanus Game, Stephen R. Donaldson's last Thomas Covenant novel The Last Dark, K.W. Jeter's Fiendish Schemes, Jeff VanderMeer's Wonderbook, and other titles by Barnes, Berman, Cast & Cast, Cole, Connolly, Crilley, Rice, Shusterman, Williams, and Wilson
Monday 14 October 2013
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Stephen King's Doctor Sleep is still #1.
Sunday 13 October 2013
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Special to Locus Online
The accomplished and engaging debut novel of Eric Lundgren basically conflates the absurdist doings of a typical George Saunders story with the homegrown Midwest eccentric ambiance of Garrison Keillor's Lake Woebegone — except that Lundgren's venue of Trude is not a village but a medium-sized city.
Saturday 12 October 2013
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New issues of Apex, Aurealis, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, Daily SF, GigaNotoSaurus, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Lightspeed, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Nightmare, Perihelion, Quantum Muse, and SF Site
Friday 11 October 2013
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New issues of Black Static, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Focus, Interzone, and Vector
Thursday 10 October 2013
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Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312, Max Brooks' World War Z, and titles by Troy Denning and Michael A. Stackpole.
Wednesday 9 October 2013
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Excerpts from Locus Magazine's October Issue interview
I have firm plans for the Gentleman Bastard sequence. Assuming that it continues to be commercially successful enough that my publishers will give me carte blanche to keep going, I would like to follow it with a further seven books, set about 20 years after the end of Inherit the Night, book seven of the current sequence.
Tuesday 8 October 2013
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David Eggers' The Circle, Scott Lynch's The Republic of Thieves, Martin & Dozois' anthology Old Mars, a collection by Nnedi Okorafor, and other titles by Adams, Bein, Buehlman, Campbell, Carey, Carlson, Cooper, Dalglish, Dashner, DeLima, Goodman, Guran, Harper, Jobling, Lackey, Marr, McKinley, McMann, Morton, Nye, Shane, Stinson, Strout, and Ward
Monday 7 October 2013
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Stephen King's Doctor Sleep is #1 on three lists.
Sunday 6 October 2013
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Reviews of stories from Beneath Ceasless Skies, Clarkesworld, Apex, Kaleidotrope, and Strange Horizons, plus Paula Guran's anthology Once Upon a Time, with recommendations of stories by Richard Parks, Nathan Ballingrud, Geoffrey W. Cole, and Rose Lemberg
Saturday 5 October 2013
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Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity is not only an excellent movie that people should see, but also an excellent movie that people need to see, to learn about what they have mostly been missing in the last half century of films about space travel — namely, the actual experience of living in space.
Friday 4 October 2013
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October New and Notable books include Paul McAuley's Evening's Empires, Kim Stanley Robinson's Shaman, other novels by Asher, Banks, Bond, Enge, Hunt, and Lain, collections by Ballingrud, Blumlein, and Silverberg, and anthologies from Datlow, Guran, and Mooney & Fawcett
Thursday 3 October 2013
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From Locus Magazine's October Issue.
It's quite possible we're sacrificing a good many new writers. We're letting them navigate the tricky waters of publishing on their own, with the expectation that their agent will be great, their publisher will always love them, industry professionals will always act professionally, and the checks will always come on time.
Wednesday 2 October 2013
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The October issue features interviews with Scott Lynch and G. Willow Wilson, an obituary and many appreciations of Frederik Pohl, commentary by Kameron Hurley, reports and photos from LoneStarCon 3, and reviews of short fiction and new books by Wolfgang Jeschke, Scott Lynch, Chris Willrich, Maggie Stiefvater, Ann Leckie, and many others.
Tuesday 1 October 2013
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Rachel Swirsky's How the World Became Quiet, Alastair Reynolds' On the Steel Breeze, Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice, a previously unpublished work by Evangeline Walton, and other titles by Asher, Bear, Best, Campbell, Correia & Kupari, Crowther, Daniells, Erikson, Flint & Carrico, Hair, Hough, Kenyon, May, Moore, Mullins, Newman, Phoenix, Resnick & Garcia, Tallerman, Valente, and Weber & Lindskold
Monday 30 September 2013
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Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge debuts on three lists.
Sunday 29 September 2013
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Reviews of stories from Asimov's, Analog, The Dark, Tor.com, Unlikely Story, and Mythic Delirium, with recommendations of stories by Ian R. MacLeod, Gregory Norman Bossert, Daniel Hatch, Dale Bailey, and Mark Rigney
Saturday 28 September 2013
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New issues of Analog, Asimov's, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, On Spec, and Shimmer, plus new online at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Perihelion SF, SF Site, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
Friday 27 September 2013
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Paolo Bacigalupi's Zombie Baseball Beatdown, John Scalzi's The Mallet of Loving Correction, Gary Westfahl's William Gibson, and titles by Bardugo, Boston, Datlow, Fforde, Hellard & Thomas, Holt, Kiernan, Klima et al., Lovegrove, Maberry, McClure, Melton, Wasserman, and Zettel
Thursday 26 September 2013
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What we do is match up book fans with authors they may not know but will very likely enjoy, using every means of finding readers available to the modern online marketer. The process is so different from what I learned in pre-internet times!
Wednesday 25 August 2013
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From Locus Magazine's September 2013 issue
Even if The Age of Ice sometimes strains patience or belief with its vast wealth of detail, on the whole Alexander's sharp observations — and the author's ability to plunge him into the thick of things, fraught with emotions far more intense than ennui — display a remarkable power.
Tuesday 24 September 2013
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Stephen King's Doctor Sleep, Stephen Baxter's Proxima, Steven Brust & Skyler White's The Incrementalists, Brandon Sanderson's Steelheart, and titles by Adams, Holloway, James, Littlewood, Mansbach, Schwab, Siegel,
Willrich, and Wooding
Monday 23 September 2013
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Stephen King's Doctor Sleep is #1 at Amazon.com.
Sunday 22 September 2013
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Special to Locus Online
Blumlein's prefered mode is fabulism, a blend of the Three Faces of Fantastika — Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction. Laid of course atop a foundation of actinic naturalism. The ratios shift and flow from story to story. Tone varies from downright scary to wistfully melancholy to surreally absurd.
Saturday 21 September 2013
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The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume Eight and new editions of works by Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, Dan Simmons, and Jo Walton
Friday 20 September 2013
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Reviews of stories from Interzone, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, On Spec, and Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet; with recommendations of stories by Greg Kurzawa, Sean McMullen, M Bennardo, Meda Kahn, and Lillian Wheeler
Thursday 19 September 2013
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I don't buy into the "Amazon taking over the world" thinking. I believe that in the long run Amazon will stumble in the publishing arena. I do know that e-books make it a lot easier for publishers to sell directly to readers without a middleman and I don't know why the big publishers are not doing more of this.
Wednesday 18 September 2013
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From Locus Magazine's September 2013 issue
Stan Robinson has always been a writer of huge ambition — he owns Mars, after all — and in taking on this theme, he has another huge purpose: not to tell us what this most ancient of human worlds was, but somehow, through the act of fiction, to make us remember.
Tuesday 17 September 2013
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Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge, a children's picture book by Neil Gaiman, and titles by Armstrong, Black, Cummings, de la Cruz & Johnston, Di Filipo, Duncan, Gibson, Hawke, Kristoff, Lalumière, Modesitt, Moyer, Stiefvater, Sullivan, Thomas, and Werlin
Monday 16 September 2013
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Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam and Sherrilyn Kenyon's Styxx debut on print lists; also, titles by S.M. Stirling, Seanan McGuire, and J.K. Rowling
Sunday 15 September 2013
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Excerpts from Locus Magazine's September Issue interview
I'm always obsessed with meaning. I veer back and forth. Sometimes I think, 'Of course, everything in life has meaning.' If nothing has meaning, things are pretty bleak. My point of interest with it is, 'Does it matter what's true, or does it only matter what you believe?'
Saturday 14 September 2013
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Iain M. Banks' The Hydrogen Sonata, Lois McMaster Bujold's Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance, Cory Doctorow's Pirate Cinema, and titles by Bennett, Buehlman , Butcher, Card, Carson, Lee & Miller, Levithan, Maberry, Smith, Stirling, and Weeks
Friday 13 September 2013
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Special to Locus Online
Gunn has issued a novel that equals or tops his earlier landmark, earning, I think, a permanent rank in the extended canon of our genre. It is wise, exciting, clever, surprising, hip and au courant (or perhaps timeless is a better word). Its technical craftsmanship is subtle and awe-inspiring.
Thursday 12 September 2013
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Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane, George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones, James S.A. Corey's Abaddon's Gate, and titles by Daniel Wallace and R.A. Salvatore
Wednesday 11 September 2013
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Reviews of stories from Subterranean, Clarkesworld, Apex, and anthology Glitter and Mayhem; with recommendations of stories by Ted Chiang, James Patrick Kelly, Ian Tregellis, Amal El-Mohtar, and Alan deNiro.
Tuesday 10 September 2013
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Patrick Ness' More Than This, Kim Newman's Anno Dracula: Johnny Alucard, anthologies from Steve Berman and Paula Guran, and other titles by David Barnett, Joel Shepherd, and Rick Yancey
Monday 9 September 2013
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John Jackson Miller's Star Wars novel Kenobi debuts on three lists.
Sunday 8 September 2013
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Excerpts from Locus Magazine's September Issue interview
Despite what some people think, I know exactly how the magic works in the book. I thought it out very carefully. But I was telling the story through the eyes of somebody who is only half aware of the magic, who has lived with some version of that magic all her life anyway, and so doesn't find it all that weird.
Saturday 7 September 2013
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The New York Review of Science Fiction celebrates its 300th issue; Omni Reboot debuts; plus, what's new at Apex, Aurealis, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, Galaxy's Edge, GigaNotoSaurus, Ideomancer, Indian SF, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Quantum Muse, SF Site, and Subterranean
Friday 6 September 2013
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Selected titles from Locus Magazine's September issue listings are arranged here by month.
Thursday 5 September 2013
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September New and Notable books include art books Spectrum Fantastic Art Live! 2 and Exposé 11 and titles by Datlow, Dozois, Guran, Kadrey, Lansdale, McIntosh, Novik, Shea, Shirley, Sidorova, and Stross.
Wednesday 4 September 2013
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Kim Stanley Robinson's Shaman, Laird Barron's The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and Other Stories, Nancy Farmer's The Lord of Opium, and titles by Barnes, Bond, Drake, Gilman, Hill, Jonach, Kenyon, Masterton, McGuire, Merz, Millar, Rawlik, Rees, Reichert, Ringo, Scull, Stirling, and Williams
Tuesday 3 September 2013
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Terry Goodkind's The Third Kingdom and Samantha Shannon's The Bone Season debut strongly on print lists.
Monday 2 September 2013
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Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's September Issue.
While I was in Chicago, I sat down with some of the ALA strategists to talk about how libraries are getting a raw deal on e-books. When libraries want to buy an e-book from the publisher, they find themselves paying as much as five times the price you or I pay for the same book.
Sunday 1 September 2013
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The September issue features interviews with Nalo Hopkinson and Jack Skillingstead, a new column by Cory Doctorow, listings of forthcoming books through June 2014, spotlights on Betsy Mitchell and Luis Ortiz, and reviews of short fiction and new books by Kim Stanley Robinson, Paul McAuley, Stephen P. Kiernan, Marcus Sedgwick, Seanan McGuire, and many others.
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Digital Editions available
Roundtable on the Zen of Organizing Books
Wed 27 Nov
One last spin-off from yesterday’s discussion on organizing books…
Jonathan Strahan
It probably says something deeply disturbing about me, but there is something incredibly satisfying, almost on at a DNA level, about putting books in their place. When I finally amalgamated a lot of shelves and fo...
Roundtable on the Theory of Organizing Books
Wed 27 Nov
Following on from yesterday’s discussion on organizing books…
John Clute
There was a Readercon panel this year — inspired by a very good panel at WFC in Toronto — about building a collection in a way both organizes its contents and makes those contents accessible as a presentation, as a kind of b...
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