Table of Contents, September 2000
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CHARLES N. BROWN
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
MARK R. KELLY
Electronic Editor-in-Chief
KIRSTEN GONG-WONG
Managing Editor
FAREN C. MILLER
CAROLYN F. CUSHMAN
Editors
CYNTHIA RUSCZYK
Editorial Assistant
EDWARD BRYANT
KAREN HABER
MARIANNE JABLON
RUSSELL LETSON
JONATHAN STRAHAN
GARY K. WOLFE
Contributing Editors
WILLIAM G. CONTENTO
Computer Projects
BETH GWINN
Photographer
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
September 2000 Issue 476 Vol. 45 No.3
33rd Year of Publication 21-Time Hugo Winner
MAIN STORIES
World Fantasy Awards Nominations/11 Amazing Suspends Publication/12
The Plant to Grow/12 Haydon’s Prophecy Donation/12
Writers Reclaim eRights/12
THE DATA FILE
Pullman to Get Major Push/13 The Infinite Matrix to Appear/13
Publishers Add eBooks/13 Canadian SF Reprint Line/13
Announcements/80 Call for Papers/80
Worldcon Update/80 Awards News/80
Legal News/81 Readings & Signings/81
Publishing News/81 eMagazine News/81
Book News/81 Financial News/81
International Rights/82 Other Rights Sales/82
Online Update/82
PHOTO STORIES
Aurora Awards/11 A Stapledon Celebration/12 A Clarke Knighthood/13
INTERVIEWS
Laurell K. Hamilton: Death & Sex/5
Terry Bisson: Fixing the World/8
SPECIAL
Locus Survey Results/50
OBITUARIES
Emil Petaja/76 Michael Gilbert/76
Mike Gilbert: An Appreciation by Vincent Di Fate/76
Mike Gilbert: An Appreciation by Tad Williams/77
Sherwood Springer/78 A. Reynolds Morse/78
Milton Angott/78 Ray Gibberd/78 Charles Benjamin Card/78
LISTINGS
Forthcoming Books/34 British Forthcoming Books/44
Convention Listings/56 Magazines Received: July/58
Books Received: July/59 British Books: June/69
Bestsellers/74 Photo Listing/86 Index to Ads/86
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People & Publishing/14 Locus Letters/78 Editorial Matters/79
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Distillations: Short Fiction
Reviews by Mark R. Kelly /1 7
Interzone 6/2000; F&SF 8/2000; Amazing Stories Summer
2000; Sci Fiction 6/2000.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe / 21
The Telling, Ursula K. Le Guin; The Sky Road, Ken
MacLeod; The Perseids and Other Stories, Robert
Charles Wilson; Worlds Vast and Various, Gregory
Benford.
Reviews by Faren Miller / 25
The Truth, Terry Pratchett; Year of the Griffin, Diana
Wynne Jones; The Grand Ellipse, Paula Volsky; Sky of
Swords, Dave Duncan; A Dance for Emilia, Peter S.
Beagle.
Reviews by Russell Letson / 27
The Miocene Arrow, Sean McMullen;The Collapsium,
Wil McCarthy; The Bone Yard, Paul Johnston.
Reviews by Edward Bryant / 29
Gothique, Kyle Marffin; The Bottoms, Joe R. Lansdale;
All the Rage, F. Paul Wilson; SHORT TAKES: Night
Freight, Bill Pronzini.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 31
The Invisible Ring, Anne Bishop; Is this Apocalypse
Neccessary?, C. Dale Brittain; Call From A Distant
Shore, Stephen L. Burns; Rats, Bats, and Vats, Dave
Freer & Eric Flint; Kirith Kirin, Jim Grimsley; Colony
Fleet, Susan R. Matthews; Harry Potter and the Goblet
of Fire, J.K. Rowling; T’nT:Telzey & Trigger, James
H. Schmitz.
LOCUS July 2000 / 3
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
MARK R. KELLY
Electronic Editor-in-Chief
KIRSTEN GONG-WONG
Managing Editor
FAREN C. MILLER
CAROLYN F. CUSHMAN
Editors
CYNTHIA RUSCZYK
Editorial Assistant
EDWARD BRYANT
KAREN HABER
MARIANNE JABLON
RUSSELL LETSON
JONATHAN STRAHAN
GARY K. WOLFE
Contributing Editors
WILLIAM G. CONTENTO
Computer Projects
BETH GWINN
Photographer
Locus, The Newspaper of the S cience Fiction Field (ISSN
0047-4959), is published monthly, at $4.95 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: $46.00 for 12 issues, $85.00 for 24 issues via periodical
mail. In Canada: $50.00 for 12 issues, $95.00 for
24 issues via periodical mail. First class individual subscriptions
in the US: $56.00 for 12 issues, $100.00 for 24
issues. In Canada: $58.00 for 12 issues, $105.00 for 24
issues. Individual overseas subscriptions are $50.00 for
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subscriptions to Europe o r S outh America via air m ail are
$75.00 for 12 issues, $125.00 for 24 issues. Individual
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$85.00 for 12 issues, $140.00 for 24 issues. Lifetime subscriptions
are ten times the one-year rate. Institutional
subscriptions are $3.00 extra per year. Make checks payable
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at bottom. When converting from periodical mail to first
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us immediately. Periodical mail is not forwarded: it is either
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your subscription for each returned copy. We keep expired
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is a renewal o r completely new. British Subscription
Agent: Fantast (Medway) Ltd. P.O. Box 23, Upwell
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Agent: Yoshio Kobayashi, 3-34-14-301, Kitasenzoku,
Ohta-ku, Tokyo, 145. Japan; Australian Subscription Agent:
Justin Ackroyd, Slow Glass Books G.P.O. Box 2708X,
Melbourne, Victoria, 3001, Australia. Bookseller discounts
available. Display advertising rates on request. ©2000 by
Locus Publications. We take no responsibility for unsolicited
submissions. Printed in the United States. Periodical
postage paid at Oakland, California. POSTMASTER: Send
address changes to Locus Publications, P.O. Box 13305,
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Letters, information, and credit card subscriptions
can be sent via e-mail to L ocu s@Locusmag.com or
by fax to 510-339-8144. Subscriptions by phone are
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Index to Science Fiction, Fantasy, & H o rro r 1984-
1999: www.Locusmag.com/index/; The Locus Index
to Science Fiction Awards is at www.Locusmag.com/
SFAwards/.
This magazine is printed on recycled paper
using soy-based inks.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
September 2000 Issue 476 Vol. 45 No.3
33rd Year of Publication 21-Time Hugo Winner
MAIN STORIES
World Fantasy Awards Nominations/11 Amazing Suspends Publication/12
The Plant to Grow/12 Haydon’s Prophecy Donation/12
Writers Reclaim eRights/12
THE DATA FILE
Pullman to Get Major Push/13 The Infinite Matrix to Appear/13
Publishers Add eBooks/13 Canadian SF Reprint Line/13
Announcements/80 Call for Papers/80
Worldcon Update/80 Awards News/80
Legal News/81 Readings & Signings/81
Publishing News/81 eMagazine News/81
Book News/81 Financial News/81
International Rights/82 Other Rights Sales/82
Online Update/82
PHOTO STORIES
Aurora Awards/11 A Stapledon Celebration/12 A Clarke Knighthood/13
INTERVIEWS
Laurell K. Hamilton: Death & Sex/5
Terry Bisson: Fixing the World/8
SPECIAL
Locus Survey Results/50
OBITUARIES
Emil Petaja/76 Michael Gilbert/76
Mike Gilbert: An Appreciation by Vincent Di Fate/76
Mike Gilbert: An Appreciation by Tad Williams/77
Sherwood Springer/78 A. Reynolds Morse/78
Milton Angott/78 Ray Gibberd/78 Charles Benjamin Card/78
LISTINGS
Forthcoming Books/34 British Forthcoming Books/44
Convention Listings/56 Magazines Received: July/58
Books Received: July/59 British Books: June/69
Bestsellers/74 Photo Listing/86 Index to Ads/86
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People & Publishing/14 Locus Letters/78 Editorial Matters/79
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Distillations: Short Fiction
Reviews by Mark R. Kelly /1 7
Interzone 6/2000; F&SF 8/2000; Amazing Stories Summer
2000; Sci Fiction 6/2000.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe / 21
The Telling, Ursula K. Le Guin; The Sky Road, Ken
MacLeod; The Perseids and Other Stories, Robert
Charles Wilson; Worlds Vast and Various, Gregory
Benford.
Reviews by Faren Miller / 25
The Truth, Terry Pratchett; Year of the Griffin, Diana
Wynne Jones; The Grand Ellipse, Paula Volsky; Sky of
Swords, Dave Duncan; A Dance for Emilia, Peter S.
Beagle.
Reviews by Russell Letson / 27
The Miocene Arrow, Sean McMullen;The Collapsium,
Wil McCarthy; The Bone Yard, Paul Johnston.
Reviews by Edward Bryant / 29
Gothique, Kyle Marffin; The Bottoms, Joe R. Lansdale;
All the Rage, F. Paul Wilson; SHORT TAKES: Night
Freight, Bill Pronzini.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 31
The Invisible Ring, Anne Bishop; Is this Apocalypse
Neccessary?, C. Dale Brittain; Call From A Distant
Shore, Stephen L. Burns; Rats, Bats, and Vats, Dave
Freer & Eric Flint; Kirith Kirin, Jim Grimsley; Colony
Fleet, Susan R. Matthews; Harry Potter and the Goblet
of Fire, J.K. Rowling; T’nT:Telzey & Trigger, James
H. Schmitz.
LOCUS July 2000 / 3
