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January 2012 Posts: New Books : 31 JanuaryTuesday 31 January 2012 | Monitor
Released today: the US edition of Diana Wynne Jones' last book Earwig and the Witch, and titles by Bestwick, Cole, Del Franco, Maxey, McDermott, Meding, Sullivan, Tallerman, and Tidhar; last week: Will McIntosh's Hitchers and titles by Littlefield and Safrey
This Week's BestsellersMonday 30 January 2012 | Monitor
Orson Scott Card's Shadows in Flight debuts in the top 10.
Print and Online Periodicals: end JanuarySunday 29 January 2012 | Monitor
What's in new issues of Analog, Asimov's, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and (the last) Steam Engine Time
E-Books: JanuarySaturday 28 January 2012 | Monitor
Original titles by Bradley P. Beaulieu & Stephen Gaskell and Linda Nagata, backlist titles from Ash-Tree Press, Infinity Plus singles, and a title by Irene Radford
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, late JanuaryFriday 27 January 2012 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of Asimov's, Analog, Tor.com, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Heroic Fantasy Quarterly
New UK Books : JanuaryThursday 26 January 2012 | Monitor
Alastair Reynolds' Blue Remembered Earth, Paul McAuley's In the Mouth of the Whale, and titles by Beckett, Christopher, Esslemont, Fowler, Fultz, Herter, Hughes, Meaney, Nicholls, Rees, Sebold, Wells, and Whates
Paul Di Filippo reviews Ben Marcus' The Flame AlphabetWednesday 25 January 2012 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
A novel that's full of essential speculative estrangement — the surface narrative — but one which also conceals a multivalent subterranean (in one sense, literally subterranean!) allegory about time, human generations, individualism, interpersonal and societal communications, and nonhuman modes of epistemology and being. New Books : 24 JanuaryTuesday 24 January 2012 | Monitor
Released today: John Shirley's Everything Is Broken, Alan Lightman's Mr. g: A Novel About the Creation, and titles by Duncan, Hodder, and Rusch; earlier, a novella by Fiona Lehn
This Week's BestsellersMonday 23 January 2012 | Monitor
James Luceno's Star Wars: Darth Plagueis debuts in the top 10.
Adrienne Martini reviews The Intergalactic Nemesis: Book One: Target EarthSunday 22 January 2012 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Jason Neulander's creation isn't a play or a musical. What it most resembles is a live-action graphic-novel radio drama and slide show. Think Garrison Keillor's Guy Noir with alien sludge monsters. Classic Reprints: JanuarySaturday 21 January 2012 | Monitor
New editions of Keith Roberts' Pavane, Robert A. Heinlein's Sixth Column, and titles by David Drake, Georges Pellerin, J.-H. Rosny Aîné, Robert J. Sawyer, and Robert Silverberg
Print and Online Periodicals: third week JanuaryFriday 20 January 2012 | Monitor
What's in new issues of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, The Bulletin of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Intergalactic Medicine Show, The New York Review of Science Fiction, SF Site, Star*Line, and Strange Horizons
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Margo LanaganThursday 19 January 2012 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's January 2012 issue
Sea Hearts is a selkie novel, as distinguished from the spate of mermaid novels we've seen in the past couple of years, but as a Lanagan novel it's distinguished in several other ways as well. Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, mid-JanuaryWednesday 18 January 2012 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Shimmer, On Spec, Something Wicked, and in new anthology River
New Books : 17 JanuaryTuesday 17 January 2012 | Monitor
Released today: Orson Scott Card's Shadows in Flight, Glen Cook's A Path to Coldness of Heart, Michael Flynn's In the Lion's Mouth, Ben Marcus' The Flame Alphabet, and titles by Cross, Goss, Lang, and Yamamoto; earlier, Daniel O'Malley's The Rook and titles by Flint & Goodlett and Phillips
This Week's BestsellersMonday 16 January 2012 | Monitor
Greg Bear's Halo: Primordium and Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson's Sisterhood of Dune debut.
Lois McMaster Bujold: TopiasSunday 15 January 2012 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's January Issue interview.
People often ask me if writing science fiction is any different from writing fantasy. For me, they are a continuum: definitely science fiction on one end, fantasy on the other, and then there's a muddy ground in the middle. But as I approach it, whatever the genre, the writing is the same. New in Paperback: JanuarySaturday 14 January 2012 | Monitor
Jo Walton's Among Others, Gene Wolfe's Home Fires, Frederik Pohl's All the Lives He Led, Michael Swanwick's Dancing with Bear, Martin & Dozois's Songs of the Dying Earth, Deborah Harkness' A Discovery of Witches, and titles by Barnes, Ferrari, Hendee, Hunt, Lackey, Locke, Marmell, McCaffrey & Scarborough, Saberhagen, Taylor & Johnson, and West
Online Periodicals: mid-JanuaryFriday 13 January 2012 | Monitor
What's new online at SF Signal, Tangent, Tor.com, Weird Fiction Review, and World SF Blog
Faren Miller reviews Lev A.C. RosenThursday 12 January 2012 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's January 2012 issue
All Men of Genius makes no attempt to hide its main sources of inspiration: an odd couple of famous comedies, Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. Locus Bestsellers, JanuaryWednesday 11 January 2012 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Neal Stephenson's Reamde, George R.R. Martin's A Storm of Swords, Cherie Priest's Ganymede, Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore's Star Trek: Vanguard: What Judgments Come, and R.A. Salvatore's Neverwinter
New Books : 10 JanuaryTuesday 10 January 2012 | Monitor
Released today: Beth Revis' A Million Suns; plus, first novels by Ayize Jama-Everett and 20-year-old Kyle Chais, nonfiction about J.G. Ballard and the history of virtual reality, a novel banned in China, and other titles by Cox and Preston & Child
This Week's BestsellersMonday 9 January 2012 | Monitor
Dean Koontz' 77 Shadow Street debuts at #1 (bumping King's 11/22/63); Deborah Harkness' A Discovery of Witches debuts in trade paperback.
Claude Lalumière: The Word for YearningSunday 8 January 2012 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's January Issue interview.
One of the worst pieces of advice ever given to writers is, 'Write what you know.' That's terrible, awful! It's very important for me to feel that I'm writing about something other. If I already understand things, why would I want to write about them? Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early JanuarySaturday 7 January 2012 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of Clarkesworld, Tor.com, Apex Magazine, GigaNotoSaurus, Redstone SF, Kaleidotrope, Fantastique Unfettered, and in new Australian anthology Ishtar
Online and Print Periodicals: early JanuaryFriday 6 January 2012 | Monitor
What's in new issues of Abyss & Apex, Apex Magazine, Black Static, Clarkesworld, Daily SF, GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, Quantum Muse, Redstone SF, SF Site, Shimmer, and Subterranean
Russell Letson reviews Joe HaldemanThursday 5 January 2012 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's January 2012 issue
This tour of an unraveling society puts Earthbound squarely in the tradition of postapocalyptic novels, a tradition that seems to be having a mini-revival lately ... Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, JanuaryWednesday 4 January 2012 | Magazine
January New and Notable books include Ian McDonald's Planesrunner, Rudy Rucker's Nested Scrolls, and other titles by Adams, Asaro, Brackett, Cass, Duncan, Gregory, Guran, McDevitt, Monette, Valente, and Whitehead.
New Books : 3 JanuaryTuesday 3 January 2012 | Monitor
Released today: William Gibson’s Distrust That Particular Flavor, Ryan Boudinot’s Blueprints of the Afterlife, John Love’s first novel Faith, and titles by Ashgrove, Berg, Blackmoore, Bova, Fultz, Gonzales, Green, Hendee & Hendee, Herbert & Anderson, Hunter, Rowland, Shufeldt, Steele, Tate, Wells, West, and Zahn; 31 Dec: Kelley Armstrong
This Week's BestsellersMonday 2 January 2012 | Monitor
Stephen King's 11/22/63 is still #1; Karen Russell's Swamplandia ranks on three lists.
Cory Doctorow: A Vocabulary for Speaking about the FutureSunday 1 January 2012 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's January Issue.
Science fiction isn't a literature that tells you what will happen tomorrow. It is a literature that tells you how to prevent the bad tomorrows and usher in the good ones. It is an active and activist literature, with an agenda and a point of view. Earlier posts: December | November | October | September | August | July | June | May | April | March | February | January | December | November | October | September | August | July | June |
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