Table of Contents, September 1996
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CHARLES N. BROWN
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
TABLE OF CONTENTS
September 1996 Issue 428 Vol. 37 No. 3
29th Year of Publication 17-Time Hugo Winner
MAIN STORIES
MARIANNE S. JABLON
Managing Editor
FAREN C. MILLER
CAROLYN F. CUSHMAN
Editors
KIRSTEN GONG-WONG
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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Japan; Australian Subscription Agent: Justin Ackroyd, Slow
Glass Books Q.P.O Box 2708X, Melbourne, Victoria, 3001,
Australia. Bookseller discounts available. Display advertising
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CA 94661.
1996 World Fantasy Awards Nominations/7
1996 Campbell/Sturgeon Memorial Awards/7 Card’s in Pictures/8
1996 Chesley Awards Nominations/8 1996 Aurora Awards/8
1997 World Fantasy Awards Judges/8 Gingrich SF Novel Failure/8
Diamond Acquires Capital/9
THE DATA FILE
Announcements/9 Readings & Signings/9 Publishing News/9
Award News/9 Financial News/9 Book News/79 Magazine News/79
Court Cases/79 Rights/79 Online News/79 Multi-Media News/79
Market Update/79 Publications Received/79
Multi-Media Received/79 Catalogs Received/79
INTERVIEWS
Walter Jon Williams: Feng Shui in Worldbeat City/4
Nicola Griffith: The Nike School of Writing/6
SPECIAL FEATURE
1996 Locus Survey Results/54
INTERNATIONAL
SF in France/57 SF in Australia/58
OBITUARIES
Claudia Peck/78 Collin Wilcox/78
Deaths Announced: Robert Buckner/78 Larry Eisenberg/78
Steve Frazee/78 C.B. Gilford/78 Mirra Ginsburg/78
Franklin Gregory/78 Frank A. Javor/78
Edward W. Ludwig/78 Shepherd Mead/78 Doug Stapleton/78
James S. Wallerstein/78 Theodore Tyler/78
LISTINGS
Forthcoming Books/38 British Forthcoming Books/48
Convention Listings/59 Magazines Received: July/60
Books Received: July/61 British Books: June/70
Bestsellers/76 Photo Listing/86 Index to Ads/86
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People & Publishing/10 QuotePage/35
Editorial Matters/78 People & Places/81
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Distillations: Short Fiction
Reviews by Mark R. Kelly / 13
SF Age 7/96; F&SF 8/96; Interzone 7/96; War of the
Worlds: Global Dispatches, Kevin J. Anderson, ed.;
Leviathan Volume 1: Into the Gray.
Reviews by Edward Bryant / 17
The Green Mile #6: Coffey on the Mile, Stephen King;
Desperation, Stephen King; The Regulators, Richard
Bachman; First Love, Joyce Carol Oates; Kink, Kathe
Koja.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe / 21
Holy Fire, Bruce Sterling; Quicker than the Eye, Ray
Bradbury; Over the River & Through the Woods,
Clifford Simak; Starlight 1, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, ed.
Reviews by Faren Miller / 25
Memory, Lois McMaster Bujold; Excessions, lain M.
Banks; Escardy Gap, Peter Crowther & James
Lovegrove; The Wood Wife, Terri Windling; The Unicorn
Sonata, Peter S. Beagle; The Cockatrice Boys,
Joan Aiken; SHORT TAKE: Borderline, Leanne Frahm.
Reviews by Russell Letson / 29
Holy Fire, Bruce Sterling; The Shift, George Foy.
Reviews by Shira Daemon / 31
Requiem, Graham Joyce; Reclamation, Sarah Zettel;
Byzantium, Stephen R. Lawhead; Humpty Dumpty:
An Oval, Damon Knight; SHORT TAKES: Mother of
Winter, Barbara Hambly; Lunatics, Bradley Denton.
3 / LOCUS September 1996
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
TABLE OF CONTENTS
September 1996 Issue 428 Vol. 37 No. 3
29th Year of Publication 17-Time Hugo Winner
MAIN STORIES
MARIANNE S. JABLON
Managing Editor
FAREN C. MILLER
CAROLYN F. CUSHMAN
Editors
KIRSTEN GONG-WONG
Assistant Editor
EDWARD BRYANT
SHIRA DAEMON
MARK R. KELLY
RUSSELL LETSON
GARY K. WOLFE
Contributing Editors
WILLIAM G. CONTENTO
Special Projects
BETH GWINN
Photographer
Locus, The Newspaper of the Science Fiction Field (ISSN
0047-4959), is published monthly, at $4.50 per copy, by Locus
Publications, 34 Ridgewood Lane, Oakland CA 94611.
Please send all mail to: Locus Publications, P.O. Box 13305,
Oakland CA 94661. Telephone (510) 339-9196; (510) 339-
9198. FAX (510) 339-8144. E-mail: Locus@Locusmag.com.
Individual subscriptions in the US: $43.00 for 12 issues,
$80.00 for 24 issues via periodical mail. In Canada: $48.00
for 12 issues, $90.00 for 24 issues via periodical mail. First
class individual subscriptions in the US or Canada are $53.00
for 12 issues, $95.00 for 24 issues. Individual overseas subscriptions
are $48.00 for 12 issues, $90.00 for 24 issues via
sea mail. Individual subscriptions to Europe or South America
via airmail are $70.00 for 12 issues, $120.00 for 24 issues.
Individual subscriptions to Australia, Asia, or Africa via air
mail are $80.00 for 12 issues, $135.00 for 24 issues. Lifetime
subscriptions are ten times the one-year rate. Institutional
subscriptions are $3.00 extra per year. Make checks
payable to Locus Publications. All subscriptions payable directly
in US funds only. Overseas checks must be drawn on
a US bank and include computer encoding numbers at bottom.
Wien converting from periodical mail to first class delivery,
please convert all remaining issues on your present
subscription ($1.00 per issue). The number after your name
on the mailing label is that of the last issue on your present
subscription. If you change your address, please notify us
immediately. Periodical mail is not usually forwarded; it is
either returned or destroyed. We subtract one issue from
your subscription for each returned copy. We keep expired
addresses on file for one year, so tell us if your subscription
is a renewal or completely new. British Subscription Agent:
Fantast (Medway) Ltd. P.O. Box 23, Upwell Wisbech, CAMBS
PE14 9BU. UK. Japanese Subscription Agent: Yoshio
Kobayashi, 3-34-14-301, Kitasenzoku, Ohta-ku, Tokyo, 145,
Japan; Australian Subscription Agent: Justin Ackroyd, Slow
Glass Books Q.P.O Box 2708X, Melbourne, Victoria, 3001,
Australia. Bookseller discounts available. Display advertising
rates on request. ©1996 by Locus Publications. We
take no responsibility for unsolicited submissions. Printed in
the United States. Periodical postage paid at Oakland, California
and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send
address changes to Locus Publications, PO. Box 13305, Oakland
CA 94661.
1996 World Fantasy Awards Nominations/7
1996 Campbell/Sturgeon Memorial Awards/7 Card’s in Pictures/8
1996 Chesley Awards Nominations/8 1996 Aurora Awards/8
1997 World Fantasy Awards Judges/8 Gingrich SF Novel Failure/8
Diamond Acquires Capital/9
THE DATA FILE
Announcements/9 Readings & Signings/9 Publishing News/9
Award News/9 Financial News/9 Book News/79 Magazine News/79
Court Cases/79 Rights/79 Online News/79 Multi-Media News/79
Market Update/79 Publications Received/79
Multi-Media Received/79 Catalogs Received/79
INTERVIEWS
Walter Jon Williams: Feng Shui in Worldbeat City/4
Nicola Griffith: The Nike School of Writing/6
SPECIAL FEATURE
1996 Locus Survey Results/54
INTERNATIONAL
SF in France/57 SF in Australia/58
OBITUARIES
Claudia Peck/78 Collin Wilcox/78
Deaths Announced: Robert Buckner/78 Larry Eisenberg/78
Steve Frazee/78 C.B. Gilford/78 Mirra Ginsburg/78
Franklin Gregory/78 Frank A. Javor/78
Edward W. Ludwig/78 Shepherd Mead/78 Doug Stapleton/78
James S. Wallerstein/78 Theodore Tyler/78
LISTINGS
Forthcoming Books/38 British Forthcoming Books/48
Convention Listings/59 Magazines Received: July/60
Books Received: July/61 British Books: June/70
Bestsellers/76 Photo Listing/86 Index to Ads/86
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People & Publishing/10 QuotePage/35
Editorial Matters/78 People & Places/81
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Distillations: Short Fiction
Reviews by Mark R. Kelly / 13
SF Age 7/96; F&SF 8/96; Interzone 7/96; War of the
Worlds: Global Dispatches, Kevin J. Anderson, ed.;
Leviathan Volume 1: Into the Gray.
Reviews by Edward Bryant / 17
The Green Mile #6: Coffey on the Mile, Stephen King;
Desperation, Stephen King; The Regulators, Richard
Bachman; First Love, Joyce Carol Oates; Kink, Kathe
Koja.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe / 21
Holy Fire, Bruce Sterling; Quicker than the Eye, Ray
Bradbury; Over the River & Through the Woods,
Clifford Simak; Starlight 1, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, ed.
Reviews by Faren Miller / 25
Memory, Lois McMaster Bujold; Excessions, lain M.
Banks; Escardy Gap, Peter Crowther & James
Lovegrove; The Wood Wife, Terri Windling; The Unicorn
Sonata, Peter S. Beagle; The Cockatrice Boys,
Joan Aiken; SHORT TAKE: Borderline, Leanne Frahm.
Reviews by Russell Letson / 29
Holy Fire, Bruce Sterling; The Shift, George Foy.
Reviews by Shira Daemon / 31
Requiem, Graham Joyce; Reclamation, Sarah Zettel;
Byzantium, Stephen R. Lawhead; Humpty Dumpty:
An Oval, Damon Knight; SHORT TAKES: Mother of
Winter, Barbara Hambly; Lunatics, Bradley Denton.
3 / LOCUS September 1996
