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August 2011 Posts: Online Periodicals: late August 2011Wednesday 31 August 2011 | Monitor; Directories
The latest at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Fantasy Magazine, Lightspeed, SF Signal, SF Site, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 30 August 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Terry Goodkind's The Omen Machine debuts in 1st place on two lists, while George R.R. Martin retains the #1 slot on two others.
New Books : fourth week AugustMonday 29 August 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Peter S. Beagle & Joe R. Lansdale's The Urban Fantasy Anthology, Terry Goodkind's The Omen Machine, Paula Guran's The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2011 Edition, Daniel Polansky's Low Town, and other titles by Barclay, Cooper, Hoffman, Kollin & Kollin, Millhauser, Monette & Bear, Niven & Barnes, Rawn, Robson, and Vaughn
Russell Letson reviews Kathleen Ann GoonanSunday 28 August 2011 | Reviews; Magazine; 2011 Posts
From Locus Magazine's August 2011 issue
The label "alternate history" does not quite do justice to the book's plot, let alone its thematics or its science fictional operations. Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, late AugustSaturday 27 August 2011 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in Jack Dann & Nick Gevers' anthology Ghosts by Gaslight and in new issues of F&SF, Tor.com, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies
New Books : third week AugustFriday 26 August 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Small press titles by Maria Alexander, Amy Benesch, Braxton A. Cosby, Jim McPherson, Lauri J. Owen, and Jo Ramsey
Graham Sleight's Yesterdays Tomorrows: J.G. BallardThursday 25 August 2011 | Reviews; Magazine; 2011 Posts
From the August 2011 issue of Locus Magazine
Even those who accept all these criticisms would have also to accept that there was something about his work. Right from the start, he was a writer of absolute, transfixing certainty. Classic Reprints: August 2011Wednesday 24 August 2011 | Monitor, Directories
New editions of John Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar, William Gibson & Bruce Sterling's The Difference Engine, Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep, and titles by Chandler, Cook, Howard, and Yolen
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 23 August 2011 | Monitor, Directories
George R.R. Martin's A Dance with Dragons reclaims #1; titles by Lev Grossman, Christie Golden, Neil Gaiman, and Joan D. Vinge debut.
Print Periodicals: early August 2011Monday 22 August 2011 | Monitor; Directories
New issues of Black Static and Realms of Fantasy
Spotlight on: David Langford, Editor and WriterSunday 21 August 2011 | Magazine; Perspectives
I got my start through chronic deafness: the gossip I misheard was generally funnier than the real thing.
Spotlight on: Alisa Krasnostein, PublisherSaturday 20 August 2011 | Magazine; Perspectives
I really believed, and still do, that there is a lot of under-appreciated talent in the Australian writing scene and I wanted to play a part in fostering new talent, helping to nurture emerging talent and promote Australian work to the rest of the world.
Paolo Bacigalupi: The Windup BoyFriday 19 August 2011 | Magazine; Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's August Issue interview.
The success of The Windup Girl makes me wonder whether or not we even know what the term 'science fiction' means to people. Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, mid-AugustThursday 18 August 2011 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of Fantasy Mangazine, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, and On Spec
Locus Magazine Bestsellers, AugustWednesday 17 August 2011 | Magazine; 2011 Posts
Locus Magazine Bestsellers are led by Charlaine Harris' Dead Reckoning, George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones, Aaron Allston's Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Conviction, and Christian Dunn's anthology Warhammer 40,000: The Horus Heresy: Age of Darkness.
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 16 August 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Sherrilyn Kenyon's Retribution debuts; Jim Butcher's Ghost Story slips; George R.R. Martin's A Dance with Dragons maintains
Print Periodicals: early August 2011Monday 15 August 2011 | Monitor; Directories
New issues of Asimov's, Bull Spec, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and The New York Review of Science Fiction
New Books : second week AugustSunday 14 August 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Lev Grossman's The Magician King, first novels by John Hornor Jacobs, Mark Lawrence, and Courtney Schafer, and titles by Caine, Carroll, Harris & Kelner, Lee & Miller, Van Name, and others
New in Paperback: AugustSaturday 13 August 2011 | Monitor, Directories
William Gibson's Zero History, Richard Kadrey's Kill the Dead, Scott Westerfeld's Behemoth, and titles by Brooks, Charlton, Duane, Elliott, Foglio, Malan, Martin & Dozois, Modesitt, Richardson, Ringo & Thomsen, Scholes, Tepper, and Williamson
Faren Miller reviews Mark Charan NewtonFriday 12 August 2011 | Reviews; Magazine; 2011 Posts
From Locus Magazine's August 2011 issue
Nights of Villjamur seems to have slipped under my radar last year... I'll join the enthusiastic chorus for a work that deserves all the favorable notice it can get. Karen Lord: Dual RealityThursday 11 August 2011 | Magazine; Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's August Issue interview.
I believe any kind of storytelling is transformative, but I also think that to do something consciously is not necessarily the best way to produce good work. The only thing I can do is tell a story that clicks for me. Online Periodicals: early August 2011Wednesday 10 August 2011 | Monitor; Directories
What's new online at Apex Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, Fantasy Magazine, GigaNotoSaurus, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Lightspeed, Redstone SF, SF Site, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 9 August 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Jim Butcher's Ghost Story knocks George R.R. Martin's A Dance with Dragons out of first place.
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early AugustMonday 8 August 2011 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of Clarkesworld, Interzone, Realms of Fantasy, GigaNotoSaurus, Redstone SF, and Apex Magazine
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