Table of Contents, July 1996

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FAREN C. MILLER
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Editors
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Assistant Editor
EDWARD BRYANT
SHIRA DAEMON
MARK R. KELLY
RUSSELL LETSON
GARY K. WOLFE
Contributing Editors
WILLIAM G. CONTENTO
Special Projects
BETH GWINN
Photographer
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
July 1996 Issue 426 Vol. 37 No. 1
29th Year of Publication 17-Time Hugo Winner
MAIN STO RIE S
Author Arrested in Shooting Incident/8 Asimov’s, Analog Relocate/8
1995 Stoker Awards/8 L. Ron Hubbard Awards Winners/8
Science Fiction & Fantasy Hall of Fame/8 Koontz Biography /8
White Wolf Editorial Reorganization/9 The Lisa Libraries/9
THE DATA F ILE
Announcements/9 Publishing News/9 Readings & Signings/9
Awards News/9 Financial News/71 Magazine News/72
Bookstore News/72 Multi-Media News/72 Multi-Media Received/72
Market Update/72 Publications Received/72 Catalogs Received/72
INTERVIEWS
Michael Bishop: Subduing the Serpent/4
Patricia A. McKillip: Springing Surprises/6
CO N V EN T IO N S
1996 World Horror Convention/38
IN T E RN A T IO N A L
SF in Brazil/42
OB ITU A R IE S
Richard Evans/66
Appreciations by: Jo Fletcher, Joe Haldeman, Gregory Benford/66
George H. Smith/67 Leon Garfield/67 L.A. Taylor/67
Charles Burbee/67 Charles Burbee: An Appreciation by William Rotsler/67
Ed Wood/68 Remembering Ed Wood by Earl Kemp/68
Ethel Lindsay/68 Timothy Leary/68 Brigitte Helm/69
Jon Pertwee/69 David Lasser: An Appreciation by Arthur C. Clarke/69
L IST IN G S
International Book & Magazines Received/42 Convention Listings/46
Magazines Received: May/48 Books Received: May/49
British Books: April/59 Bestsellers/64 Photo Listing/74 Index to Ads/74
CO LUM N S & D E PARTMEN T S
People & Publishing/10 QuotePage/35 Locus Letters/69
Editorial Matters/69 Time Machine: Back to the ’30s/71
LO CU S LO O K S AT BO OK S
Distillations: Short Fiction
Reviews by Mark R. Kelly /13
Analog 7/96; F&SF 6/96; F&SF 7/96; Pirate Writings #10;
Asimov’s 8/96; Omni Online 5/96; SHORT TAKE:
Ribofunk, Paul Di Filippo.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe /17
At the City Limits of Fate, Michael Bishop; Synthesis
& Other Virtual Realities, Mary Rosenblum; Burning
Your Boats, Angela Carter; Ancient Shores, Jack
McDevitt; Behold the Man, Michael Moorcock.
Reviews by Faren Miller / 21
The Wild, David Zindell; The Fortunate Fall, Raphael
Carter; Ribofunk, Paul Di Filippo; The Wall of the Sky,
the Wall of the Eye, Jonathan Lethem; High Fantastic:
Colorado’s Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, and Science
Fiction, Steve Rasnic Tem, ed.; She Fantastical, Lucy
Sussex & Judith Raphael Buckrich, eds.; SHORT TAKE:
Bereavements, Richard Lortz.
Reviews by Russell Letson / 25
The Ringworld Throne, Larry Niven; Mainline,
Deborah Christian; King and Emperor, Harry
Harrison & John Holm.
Reviews by Edward Bryant / 29
The Green Mile #4: The Bad Death of Eduard
Delacroix, Stephen King; The X-Files: Ruins, Kevin
J. Anderson; SHORT TAKES: Bitter/Sweet, Hugh B.
Cave; Hail Satan, Dude, Joe Christ/Bigger Than God.
Reviews by Shira Daemon / 31
Luck in the Shadows, Lynn Flewelling; Goa, Kara
Dalkey; Dark Debts, Karen Hall; The Virgin and the
Dinosaur, R. Garcia y Robertson.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 33
Daughter of Magic, C. Dale Brittain; Have Demon,
Will Travel, John Brosnan; Here, Kitty, Kitty, Winifred
Elze; The Magic Touch, Jody Lynn Nye; Realms of
the Gods, Tamora Pierce; Revolutionary, S. Andrew
Swann; Enchanter’s Glass, Susan Whitcher; The
Galactic Gourmet, James White; Reclamation, Sarah
Zettel.
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