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February 2012 Posts: Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, late FebruaryWednesday 29 February 2012 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of F&SF, Asimov's, Analog, and Tor.com
New Books : 28 FebruaryTuesday 28 February 2012 | Monitor
Released today: Tobias S. Buckell's Arctic Rising and titles by Benson, Brandon, Cooper, Douglas, Dyachenko & Dyachenko, Estep, Ford, Harper, Henry, Holm, Jacka, McKenna, Pang, Peikoff, Rawn, Smith, and Wells
This Week's BestsellersMonday 27 February 2012 | Monitor
Anne Rice's The Wolf Gift debuts at #3.
Notable New UK Books : FebruarySunday 26 February 2012 | Monitor
Margo Lanagan's The Brides of Rollrock Island, Brian Aldiss' An Exile on Planet Earth: Articles and Reflections, and titles by James Barclay, Raymond E. Feist, and Sarah Pinborough
Graham Sleight's Yesterday's Tomorrows: Samuel R. DelanySaturday 25 February 2012 | Reviews
From the February 2012 issue of Locus Magazine
Dhalgren is the last book from which one might want to extract a "lesson" or a "moral." The difficulty of the style is, as always with Delany, a necessary part of the expression of the whole. Dhalgren is a book without real successors. If SF hasn't fully absorbed its worth, that's SF's loss. Classic Reprints: FebruaryFriday 24 February 2012 | Monitor
A 50th anniversary edition of Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time, a new edition of Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle, a collection of early stories by Daphne du Maurier, new editions of books by Keith Laumer & Rosel George Brown, Dan Simmons, and Peter Straub, plus - Creature from the Black Lagoon
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, mid-FebruaryThursday 23 February 2012 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of Electric Velocipede, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Journal of Unlikely Entomology
Adrienne Martini reviews Kage BakerWednesday 22 February 2012 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2012 issue
The Best of Kage Baker makes me mad — not in a "reading this was a waste of time" way but in a "she had so many stories left" way. New Books : 21 FebruaryTuesday 21 February 2012 | Monitor
Released today: Robert Jackson Bennett's The Troupe, and titles by Aric Davis, Melissa Marr, and Elizabeth Moon; earlier, Michael Bishop's The Door Gunner and Other Perilous Flights of Fancy, and a critical study of Margaret Atwood's fiction
This Week's BestsellersMonday 20 February 2012 | Monitor
Robin Hobb's City of Dragons and Eowyn Ivey's The Snow Child debut.
Paul Di Filippo reviews Tom Knox's The Lost GoddessSunday 19 February 2012 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Knox's tale is mainly concerned with dark and dangerous mysteries out of mankind's deep past, discernible only by a combination of detective and scientific methods. In a way, it's almost Lovecraftian, insofar as HPL focused on creepy human activities lost in mythic prehistory. Print Periodicals: mid-FebruarySaturday 18 February 2012 | Monitor
What's in new issues of Dreams and Nightmares, Jupiter, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Neo-Opsis
Faren Miller reviews John Shirley's Everything Is BrokenFriday 17 February 2012 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2012 issue
The tsunami doesn't just provide excuses for political satire. Shirley dives headlong into disaster-epic mode: fast-paced, brutal, heavily-armed and compulsively readable. New in Paperback: FebruaryThursday 16 February 2012 | Monitor
China Miéville's Embassytown, Hannu Rajaniemi's The Quantum Thief, and other titles by Britain, Deas, Englehart, Flint & Wentworth, Frost, Kittredge, Lee, Martinez, Matheson, Moon, Orullian, Sniegoski, Valente, Vaughn, and Weber
Claude Lalumière & Camille Alexa review ChronicleWednesday 15 February 2012 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
As soon as the teenagers get superpowers, the film gets supercharged and goes on to develop as perhaps my favourite live-action superhero film ever. New Books : 14 FebruaryTuesday 14 February 2012 | Monitor
Released today: Elizabeth Hand's Available Dark, Anne Rice's The Wolf Gift, Walter Jon Williams' The Fourth Wall, anthologies of Mexican short stories and about robots and AI, and titles by Kittredge, Marmell, Marshall, Meyer, Nevill, and Schroeder; earlier, titles by Baggott, Brenchley, Ramsey, and Vivelo
This Week's BestsellersMonday 13 February 2012 | Monitor
Robert Harris' The Fear Index, and titles by Patricia Briggs and William C. Dietz, debut.
Joe Haldeman: Art & ScienceSunday 12 February 2012 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's February Issue interview.
In my SF from the past decades, when I tried for realism it was like a kind of controlled cynicism – about politics and religion and things like that. This century is pretty much the way I predicted it, in terms of negative aspects. None of what are now current events have proven me wrong. Paul Di Filippo reviews The Emergence of Latin American Science FictionSaturday 11 February 2012 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
This book-length study will open even more eyes in those English-speaking countries unfortunately separated from their SF cousins by language barriers. In crisp, clear prose, with immense scholarly depth, Ferreira establishes both the differences and consanguinities between Northern SF and its southern partners. Periodicals: early FebruaryFriday 10 February 2012 | Monitor
What's in new issues of Apex Magazine, Clarkesworld, GigaNotoSaurus, Interzone, Lightspeed, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Redstone SF, SF Site, Something Wicked, Star*Line, and Vector
Locus Bestsellers, FebruaryThursday 9 February 2012 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Terry Pratchett's Snuff, George R.R. Martin's A Storm of Swords, Max Brooks' World War Z, Drew Karpyshyn's Star Wars: The Old Republic: Revan, and Karen Traviss' Halo: Glasslands
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early FebruaryWednesday 8 February 2012 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of Interzone, Clarkesworld, GigaNotoSaurus, Flurb, Redstone SF, Something Wicked, and Apex Magazine
New Books : 7 FebruaryTuesday 7 February 2012 | Monitor
Released today: Saladin Ahmed's first novel Throne of the Crescent Moon, Matt Ruff's 11-9 novel The Mirage, John Joseph Adams' anthology Under the Moons of Mars, and titles by Caine, Daniel, Deas, Greenberg & Hughes, Hallaway, Hobb, Kerr, and Lackey et al; earlier, Bruce Sterling's Gothic High-Tech, Robert Harris' The Fear Index, Eowyn Ivey's The Snow Child, Tom Knox's The Lost Goddess, and titles by Martin, Meyer, Straub, and Willis
This Week's BestsellersMonday 6 February 2012 | Monitor
Téa Obreht's The Tiger's Wife is still high on trade paperback lists.
Jeff VanderMeer's Dozen of the Best from 2011Sunday 5 February 2012 | Reviews
Jeff VanderMeer selects novels by Cisco, Durham, Hurley, Kasai, Martin, Miéville, Oyeyemi, Swanwick, Tidhar, Valentine, Walton, and Whitehead.
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, FebruarySaturday 4 February 2012 | Magazine
February New and Notable books include John C. Wright's Count to a Trillion, Stephen King's 11/22/63, Neil Gaiman's Annotated Sandman, and other titles by Kage Baker, Ramsey Campbell, Cathy & Arnie Fenner, Theodora Goss, R.A. MacAvoy, Robert McCammon, Jason Stoddard, and Catherynne M. Valente, plus an anthology celebrating Stanislaw Lem.
February Issue Table of ContentsFriday 3 February 2012 | Magazine
The February issue is the annual year-in-review, with the 2011 Recommended Reading List, the 2012 Locus Poll & Survey ballot, essays by Locus editors and reviewers on the year's best books and stories, and summaries of the year's book and magazine publications. Plus: an interview with Joe Haldeman, reviews of new books by Tim Powers, Kim Westwood, Clive Barker, and many others, and Graham Sleight's "Yesterday's Tomorrows" column on Samuel R. Delany.
2012 Locus Poll & SurveyThursday 2 February 2012 | Magazine
From Locus Magazine's February 2012 issue. Deadline for voting: April 15, 2012.
2011 Recommended Reading ListWednesday 1 February 2012 | Magazine
From Locus Magazine's February 2012 issue
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