William Gibson: Cognitive Weirdness / 8
Kelly Link: The Uses of Boredom / 74

Nippon 2007 • Japan Welcomes the World by Eileen Gunn • "For Locus" by Lisa Freitag

Notes on milestones, awards, books sold, etc., with news this issue about George Takei, Garth Nix, Greg Bear, Philip K. Dick, Cory Doctorow, and many others

Lessing Wins Nobel Prize • Frutkin Wins 2007 Sunburst • SF Authors at National Book Festival • 2007 British Fantasy Awards

Holzbrinck Becomes Macmillan • Haven for Injured Authors • Cuthbert Collection to Alberta • World’s Biggest Publishers • Book Exports Rising • Subterranean Joins Baen’s Webscriptions • Ministry Reborn • Borders Sells UK Stores • Bookworld Out of Business • AMS Bankruptcy Proceedings • Bryon Preiss Bankruptcy Proceedings • Tolkien Home Demolished • Announcements • Publishing News • Financial News • International Rights • Other Rights

Creative Commons by Cory Doctorow

SF in China with reports by Elizabeth Anne Hull and David Brin

Magazines Received: September / 48    Books Received: September / 49   
British Books Received: August / 61    Ad Index / 63    Bestsellers / 64

Robert Jordan Appreciations by George R.R. Martin, Tom Doherty, Ed Gorman, Brandon Sanderson, Elise Matthesen, Harriet Popham Rigney • Leslie Flood • Denny Martin Flinn • Dave Ish • Appreciation by Robert Silverberg

Current Doings • Hugos • This Issue • Next Issue

An Alternate History of the 21st Century, William Shunn; F&SF 12/07; Asimov’s 12/07; Clarkesworld Magazine 6/07, 7/07, 8/07, 9/07; Talebones Summer ’07; Flurb Fall/Winter ’07; Black Gate Summer ’07.

Asimov’s 12/07; Analog 11/07; Interzone 7-8/07; Challenging Destiny 8/07; Fantasy Magazine #7; Black Gate Summer ’07; On Spec Summer ’07; Talebones Summer ’07; The Coyote Road, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds.; Eclipse One: New Fantasy and Science Fiction, Jonathan Strahan, ed.

One for Sorrow, Christopher Barzak; Shadowbridge, Gregory Frost; Eclipse One: New Fantasy and Science Fiction, Jonathan Strahan, ed.; Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology, James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel, eds.; Extras, Scott Westerfeld; SHORT TAKE: The Adventures of Amir Hamza, Ghalib Lakhnavi & Abdullah Bilgrami.

Empire of Ivory, Naomi Novik; Pirate Freedom, Gene Wolfe; Gentlemen of the Road, Michael Chabon; Devices and Desires, K.J. Parker; Verdigris Deep, Frances Hardinge.

Pirate Freedom, Gene Wolfe; Eclipse One: New Fantasy and Science Fiction, Jonathan Strahan, ed.; Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural, Ellen Datlow, ed.

Holidays Are Hell, Anonymous, ed.; On the Prowl, Anonymous, ed.; The High King’s Tomb, Kristen Britain; Captain’s Fury, Jim Butcher; The Sleeping God, Violette Malan; The Water Devil, Judith Merkle Riley; Reader and Raelynx, Sharon Shinn; The Swan Maiden, Heather Tomlinson; Raven, Dean Whitlock.

Black Man (Thirteen in the US), Richard Morgan; The Orphan’s Tales, Volume II: In the Cities of Coin and Spice, Catherynne M. Valente; The Best from Jim Baen’s Universe, Eric Flint, ed.; Futures from Nature, Henry Gee, ed.; L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XXIII, Algis Budrys, ed.; The Runaway Skyscraper and Other Tales from the Pulps, Murray Leinster.