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Wednesday 14 May 2008• Monitor: This Week's BestsellersMichael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union debuts on lists in trade paperback; other debuts this week are by Keri Arthur, Laurell K. Hamilton, and Newt Gingrich & William R. Forstchen. Sunday 11 May 2008• Monitor: New Books: second week May
New SF/F/H books seen this past week include Cory Doctorow's YA novel Little Brother, original anthologies The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Ellen Datlow and The Starry Rift edited by Jonathan Strahan, Stephenie Meyer's adult novel The Host, and other titles by Alan Campbell, David Gunn, Charlaine Harris, Tim Lebbon, Scott Mackay, Kimberly Raiser, Travis S. Taylor, Jeff VanderMeer, Matt Wallace, and Sean Williams.
• Monitor: Other Magazines, early May
Fiction by David R. Palmer, Michael F. Flynn, Gord Sellar, Brian Stableford, Michael Bishop, Michael Blumlein, Matthew Hughes, poetry by Mark Rich, Kendall Evans & David C. Kopaska-Merkel, and nonfiction and interviews by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Carl Frederick, James Sallis, F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, are featured in new issues of Analog, Asimov's, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and The Magazine of Speculative Poetry.
Tuesday 6 May 2008• Monitor: This Week's BestsellersNew books by Stephenie Meyer, Charlaine Harris, Dean Koontz Saturday 3 May 2008• Monitor: New Books: first week May
New SF/F/H books seen this past week include Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer's anthology Steampunk, Michael Chabon's essay collection Maps and Legends, Melissa Marr's YA fantasy Ink Exchange, and other titles by Eric Brown, Eric Flint & Marilyn Kosmatka, Katharine Kerr, Henry Melton, Nick Sagan, Mary Frary, & Andy Walker, and Thomas E. Sniegoski.
• Monitor: New Books: fourth week April
New SF/F/H books seen the fourth week of April include Ursula K. Le Guin's Lavinia, Paul Park's The Hidden World, Alastair Reynolds' House of Suns, original SFBC anthologies edited by Gardner Dozois and Marvin Kaye, and other titles by Michio Kaku, Rob Rogers, Hayden Trenholm, and David Zindell.
• Monitor: Other Magazines, last half April
What's in new issues of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Flashing Swords, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Paradox, and Sybil's Garage.
Wednesday 30 April 2008• Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Monday 28 April 2008• Monitor: New in Paperback: April
Notable books in new paperback editions in April include Patrick Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind, Joe Hill's Heart-Shaped Box, and other titles by Greg Bear, Ben Bova, Eric Flint & Andrew Dennis, David P. Friedman, Fiona McIntosh, Allen Steele, Harry Turtledove, Sarah Zettel, and David Zindell.
Saturday 26 April 2008• Monitor: New Books: third week April
New SF/F/H books seen the third week of April include Lois McMaster Bujold's The Sharing Knife: Passage, Orson Scott Card's story collection Keeper of Dreams, Kurt Vonnegut's essay collection Armageddon in Retrospect, and other titles from Ilona Andrews, Robert Asprin, Robert Buettner, Karen Chance, Julie E. Czerneda, Martin H. Greenberg & Sarah A. Hoyt, Mercedes Lackey & Robert Gellis, Jamil Nasir, and Dan Ronco.
Thursday 24 April 2008• Monitor: What's In Other Magazines, early April
Fiction and poetry by Charles L. Grant, Greg Egan, Rudy Rucker, Ted Kosmatka, Robert Reed, Tanith Lee, Paul Melko, W.H. Pugmire & M.K. Snyder, and others, with nonfiction, reviews, and interviews by Raymond E. Feist, T.E.D. Klein, Mike Carey, Charles de Lint, Lucius Shepard, Paul Witcover, Jeff VanderMeer, Melissa Marr, and others, appear in new issues of Albedo One, Cemetery Dance, Interzone, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, Talebones, and Weird Tales.
Tuesday 22 April 2008• Monitor: This Week's BestsellersJim Butcher's Small Favor remains on Top 10 Fiction Hardcover lists; Junot Díaz' Pulitzer Prize winning The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao returns to lists. Saturday 19 April 2008• Monitor: New Books: second week April
New SF/F/H books seen the second week of April include Philip Pullman's Once Upon a Time in the North, T.A. Pratt's Poison Sleep, Theodore Judson's The Martian General's Daughter, and other novels by Barth Anderson, Cassandra Clare, Kate Elliott, Pamela Freeman, Christopher Golden, Stacia Kane, Caitlin Kittredge, Tom Kratman, Ange Sage, and Jeffrey Thomas.
Tuesday 15 April 2008• Monitor: This Week's BestsellersJim Butcher's Small Favor is #1 at Publishers Weekly, #2 at New York Times; also debuting this week, Kurt Vonnegut's essay collection Armageddon in Retrospect. Sunday 13 April 2008• Monitor: New Books: early April
New SF/F/H books seen in early April include Nebula Awards Showcase 2008 edited by Ben Bova, John Kessel's The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories and other collections by Paul Melko and Ken Rand, Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods, Karen Joy Fowler's Wit's End, Peter F. Hamilton's The Dreaming Void, Allen Steele's Galaxy Blues, and other novels by Jim Butcher, Raymond E. Feist, James P. Hogan, Rob Thurman, and Karen Traviss.
Saturday 12 April 2008• Monitor: What's In Other Magazines, March
Fiction and poetry by James Patrick Kelly, Ian R. MacLeod, Nancy Kress, Ben Bova, Lavie Tidhar, Mary Turzillo, Alexander Glass, Tom Piccirilli, Rachel Pollack, Robert Reed, Stan Nicholls, Delia Sherman, and others, with nonfiction and interviews by Jeff VanderMeer, Robert Silverberg, Peter Straub, Elizabeth Hand, John Clute, Tom Purdom, Paul Kincaid, Kelly Link, Jeffery D. Kooistra, and others, appear in new issues of Analog, Apex, Asimov's, Black Static, City Slab, Dreams and Nightmares, Flashing Swords, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Murky Depths, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, and Vector.
Tuesday 8 April 2008• Monitor: This Week's BestsellersKelley Armstrong, Raymond E. Feist, Cassandra Clare Sunday 6 April 2008• Monitor: New Books: late March
New SF/F/H books in late March include Jonathan Strahan's The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Two, Greg Egan's Dark Integers and Other Stories, Kay Kenyon's A World Too Near, Adam Roberts' Swiftly, Arthur C. Clarke Award finalists by Matthew de Abaitua and Steven Hall, and other titles by Mario Acevedo, Kelley Armstrong, David Drake, Dave Duncan, Greg Keyes, Sandra McDonald, Moira J. Moore, C.E. Murphy, and Adam Stemple.
Tuesday 1 April 2008• Monitor: This Week's BestsellersJames Patterson, Jim Butcher Saturday 29 March 2008• Monitor: New Books: mid-March
New SF/F/H books in mid-March include Paolo Bacigalupi's collection Pump Six and Other Stories, James Morrow's novel The Philosopher's Apprentice, Jeffrey Ford's The Shadow Year, and other titles by Joe Abercrombie, Lillian Stewart Carl, Jo Graham, Colin Harvey, Roz Kaveney, Thomas Ligotti, Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Anne Scarborough, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., Dru Pagliassotti, Michael Palmer, R.A. Salvatore, Marge B. Simon, S.M. Stirling, and Cecilia Tan.
Tuesday 25 March 2008• Monitor: New in Paperback: March
Notable books in new paperback editions in March include Peter Watts' Blindsight, Key Kenyon's Bright of the Sky, and other titles by Kelley Armstrong, Anne Bishop, Gordon R. Dickson & David W. Wixon, Dave Duncan (twice), Raymond E. Feist, Christopher Golden (twice), James P. Hogan, Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Anne Scarborough, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., John Ringo & Travis Taylor, and Tad Williams.
• Monitor: This Week's BestsellersStephen King, Kim Harrison, Cormac McCarthy; Philip Pullman, Terry Pratchett Tuesday 18 March 2008• Monitor: This Week's BestsellersAnne Bishop, Jim Butcher, R.A. Salvatore, Joe Abercrombie Saturday 15 March 2008• Monitor: New Books: early March
New SF/F/H books in early March include John Varley's Rolling Thunder, Mike Brotherton's Spider Star, Steve Rasnic & Melanie Tem's The Man on the Ceiling, the 1st US publications of Steven Erikson's Reaper's Gale and John Meaney's Bone Song, and other titles by Roger MacBride Allen, Anne Bishop, Kathleen Bryan, Adam-Troy Castro, William Drinkard, Eric Flint & Mike Resnick, Jim C. Hines, Sarah A. Hoyt, David Keck, Russell Kirkpatrick, Denise Little, George Mann, Misty Massey, Elizabeth Moon, and Gary K. Wolf & John J. Myers.
Tuesday 11 March 2008• Monitor: This Week's BestsellersKim Harrison, Karen Traviss, Lynsay Sands Saturday 8 March 2008• Monitor: What's In Other Magazines, February
Fiction by Kate Wilhelm, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, S.P. Somtow, Christopher Priest, James Stoddard, Robert Reed, Edward M. Lerner, and others, with nonfiction and interviews by John Picacio, Jeff VanderMeer, James Sallis, Lucius Shepard, Iain M. Banks, Norman Spinrad, John G. Cramer, and others, appear in new issues of Analog, Asimov's, Interzone, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Shimmer, and Star*Line.
Tuesday 4 March 2008• Monitor: This Week's BestsellersElizabeth Moon, Iain M. Banks, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Steven Gould Monday 3 March 2008• Monitor: New Books: late February
New SF/F/H books in late February include Iain M. Banks' Matter, Jonathan Barnes' The Somnambulist, and other titles by Ann Aguirre, Mark Del Franco, S.L. Farrell, Chris Marie Green, Margin H. Greenberg & Kerrie Hughes, Heather Hayashi, Russell Kirkpatrick, Margaret Lucke, S.M. Peters, Lynsay Sands, Mark L. Van Name & T.K.F. Weisskopf, and Michelle West.
Tuesday 26 February 2008• Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Raymond E. Feist, Stephen King, Steven Gould
Saturday 23 February 2008• 2007 In Review: 2007 SF/F/H Books on Year's Best ListsLocus Online's compilation of SF/F/H titles on year's best books lists has been updated several times since first posted, now including titles by Rowling, McDonald, Chabon, Simmons, Rothfuss, Morgan, Bull, Durham, Kay, Kenyon, Gibson, Goonan, Hill, Palwick, Ruff, Tan, Wilson, and Díaz. • Monitor: New in Paperback: February
Notable books in new paperback editions in February include China Miéville's Un Lun Dun, two versions of Steven Gould's Jumper, Paul Park's The White Tyger, Robert J. Sawyer's Rollback, and other titles by Herbie Brennan, Kathleen Bryan, Jim Butcher, Davie Drake, Philip José Farmer, Eric Flint & Ryk E. Spoor, C.S. Friedman, Katherine Kurtz, Sandra McDonald, and Elizabeth Moon.
Tuesday 19 February 2008• Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Jim Butcher, Stephen King
Sunday 17 February 2008• Monitor: New Books: early February
New SF/F/H books in early February include J.G. Ballard's autobiography Miracles of Life, novellas by Thomas M. Disch and Connie Willis, first novels by Lynn Cesar, Brian Cullen, Justin Gustainis, J.T. McDermott, and Paul Melko, and Ann & Jeff VanderMeer's anthology The New Weird. Plus: titles by Sarah Ash, L. Timmel Duchamp, A. Lee Martinez, John Ringo & Travis Taylor, Chris Roberson, Carrie Vaughn, Edward Willett, and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.
Wednesday 13 February 2008• 2007 In Review: 2007 SF/F/H Books on Year's Best Lists
Locus Online's compilation of SF/F/H titles on year's best books lists includes titles by J.K. Rowling, Michael Chabon, Ian McDonald, Dan Simmons, Patrick Rothfuss, Emma Bull, Richard K. Morgan, David Anthony Durham, Kay Kenyon, Matt Ruff, Shaun Tan... and Junot Díaz.
• Updated 16 February with lists from SF Site's readers poll and Concatenation. • Updated 19 February with list from American Library Association. Tuesday 12 February 2008• 2007 In Review: 2007 Cumulative Bestsellers
J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was the bestselling SF/Fantasy/Horror hardcover in 2007; Cormac McCarthy's The Road the bestselling trade paperback; and Katherine Paterson's Bridge to Terabithia the bestselling mass market paperback. Complete cumulative rankings of all books on Locus Online's weekly bestseller lists are compiled here.
• Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Lynsay Sands, Stephen King, Stephenie Meyer
Tuesday 5 February 2008• Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Stephen King, Richard Bachman, J.G. Ballard
Monday 4 February 2008• Monitor: Classic Reprints
Classic SF and fantasy in new editions seen in recent months includes Leigh Brackett's Lorelei of the Red Mist: Planetary Romances, a revised edition of Brian Aldiss' anthology A Science Fiction Omnibus, John Joseph Adams' anthology of apocalyptic stories Wastelands, and other books by Isaac Asimov, Glen Cook, Charles de Lint, Gary Gygax, Frank Herbert, Eileen Kernaghan, Katherine Kurtz, H.P. Lovecraft, Richard Matheson, C.L. Moore, Mervyn Peake, Tim Powers, and Robert Charles Wilson.
• Monitor: What's In Other Magazines, January
Fiction by Joe Haldeman, Brian Stableford, Tom Purdom, Alexander Jablokov, Richard Paul Russo, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Elizabeth Bear, and Darrell Schweitzer, plus nonfiction and interviews by Robert Scherrer, Justine Larbalestier, James Patrick Kelly, Jerry Pournelle, Lou Anders, Stephen Baxter, James Morrow, and Edward James, are to be found in new issues of Analog, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Asimov's, The Bulletin of the SFWA, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Matrix, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, Vector, and Weird Tales.
• Monitor: New in Paperback: January
Notable books in new paperback editions in January include C.J. Cherryh's Deliverer, Philip K. Dick's Voices from the Street, David Weber's Off Armageddon Reef, and other titles by Mario Acevedo, John Birmingham, David B. Coe, Glen Cook, James S. David, David Gemmell, Jane Lindskold, Andre Norton, John Ringo, and Liz Williams.
Sunday 3 February 2008• Monitor: New Books: second half January
New SF/F/H books in late January include Stephen King's Duma Key, Gregory Frost's Shadowbridge, Robin Hobb's Renegade's Magic, and other titles from Eric Flint, Simon R. Green, Lucy & Stephen Hawking, Michael A. Heald, Barb & J.C. Hendee, William Jones, Nicole Kimberling, Russell Kirkpatrick, Gail Z. Martin, George R.R. Martin, Symm Hawes McCord, Philip Palmer, Karen Romanko, Bruce Taylor, and Sean Williams.
Tuesday 29 January 2008• Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Kitty Vaughn, Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman, Stephenie Meyer
Tuesday 22 January 2008• Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Stephen King, Barb & J.C. Hendee, Robin Hobb, Christopher Paolini
Sunday 20 January 2008• Monitor: New Books: first half January
New SF/F/H books in early January include Michael Swanwick's The Dragons of Babel, Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter's Firstborn, George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, & Daniel Abraham's Hunter's Run, Stephen Baxter's Navigator, and other titles by Catherine Asaro, Elizabeth Bear, Carol Berg, Patricia Briggs, Jack Campbell, Felix Gilman, Robert Newcomb, Joshua Palmatier, and Matthew Peterson.
Tuesday 15 January 2008• Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Patricia Briggs, Brian Selznick
Sunday 13 January 2008• Monitor: What's In Other Magazines, late December
Fiction by Joe Haldeman, Howard V. Hendrix, Michael Swanwick, John Kessel, Lisa Tuttle & Steven Utley, James L. Cambias, and others, and nonfiction and interviews with Geoff Ryman, Stephen Baxter, Elizabeth Hand, D.G. Compton, and others are featured in new issues of Albedo One, Analog, Asimov's, Black Static, Leading Edge, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Neo-Opsis, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and Star*Line.
Tuesday 8 January 2008• Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Patricia Briggs, Drew Karpyshyn, Dan Simmons, Timothy Zahn, Anne & Todd McCaffrey, Iain M. Banks
Sunday 6 January 2008• Monitor: New Books: second half December
New SF/F/H books seen in late December include Ellen Datlow's horror anthology Inferno, Sarah Hall's novel The Carhullan Army, George R.R. Martin's collection Dreamsongs: Volume II, other titles by Steve Berman, Jim Butcher, Deborah Chester, David B. Coe, Jamie Craig, Kendall Evans, David Forbes, Diana Pharaoh Francis, Martin H. Greenberg & Loren L. Coleman, Stephen Jones, Sylvia Kelso, Tom Kratman, John Levitt, Anne & Todd McCaffrey, Colette Phair, Wen Spencer, and Timothy Zahn, plus book club omnibus editions of works by Daniel Abraham and Kristine Smith.
Tuesday 1 January 2008• Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Stephen King
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