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October -- News Posts
October 2012 Posts:
Wednesday 31 October 2012
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Reviews
Reviews of stories in the latest issues of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Interzone, Strange Horizons, Electric Velocipede, Kaleidotrope, Tor.com, Lightspeed, and Black Gate
Tuesday 30 October 2012
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Monitor
Karin Tidbeck's collection Jagannath, other collections by Elizabeth Bear and Robert Shearman, Mark Z. Danielewski's The Fifty Year Sword, and other novels by Brom, Card, Chan, Cobley, Griffin, Hawk, Henry, Hurley, Jeter & Jones, Kent, Long, Painter, Shepherd, and Williams, and an anthology from Ekaterina Sedia
Monday 29 October 2012
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Monitor
Justin Cronin's The Twelve, Mark Z. Danielewski's The Fifty Year Sword, and Gregory Benford & Larry Niven's Bowl of Heaven debut
Sunday 28 October 2012
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Monitor
What's new with Albedo One, Dreams and Nightmares, and Eclipse Online
Saturday 27 October 2012
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Reviews
Despite its ostensible virtues, the film is not quite the masterpiece that its creators wished it to be, as even sympathetic audiences and reviewers harboring the same wish must ultimately acknowledge. And the reasons why this is the case are, appropriately enough, rather complicated.
Friday 26 October 2012
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Perspectives
After I did the first photo of Michael Swanwick he called lots of people like Ben Bova and Joe Haldeman and said "you should have this guy stop by your house, he’ll make your office look great"...
Thursday 25 October 2012
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Monitor
H. Rider Haggard's When the World Shook, Philip K. Dick's Time Out of Joint and five other titles, George R.R. Martin's first two novels, Robert Silverberg's 7th volume of Collected Stories, and Tolkien anthology After the King
Wednesday 24 October 2012
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Reviews
From Locus Magazine's October 2012 issue
Trust me that when the imagination that devised both "The Phantom of Kansas" and "Press Enter [ ]" digs into some of the genre's oldest perennial questions (What will we do when the lights go out and things fall apart?), the results are just as gripping, terrifying, and convincing.
Tuesday 23 October 2012
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Monitor
Released today: Stephen Jones' The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: 23. Other titles from recent weeks: Lois Lowry's Son, anthologies from John Joseph Adams and Stephen Jones, a collection by Mike Resnick, and novels by Eads, Rucker, Sagara, Sanderson, Stephens, Travers, and Trent
Monday 22 October 2012
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Monitor
Kim Harrison's Into the Woods, and Iain M. Banks' The Hydrogen Sonata, debut on print lists.
Sunday 21 October 2012
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Reviews
Reviews of stories in the latest issue of F&SF and in anthologies Magic, edited by Jonathan Oliver, and After, edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
Saturday 20 October 2012
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Monitor
New in paperback this past month, Margaret Atwood's In Other Worlds, Jack McDevitt's Firebird, John C. Wright's Count to a Trillion, and other titles by Brennan, Crichton & Preston, Datlow, Drake & Lambshead, Lackey, McIntosh, Modesitt, Moore, Morgan, Mullen, Niven & Barnes, and White
Friday 19 October 2012
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Reviews
Special to Locus Online
John Park's quietly effective exercise in eerie world-building and conspiracy mind games satisfies our appetites for strong-meat, offbeat material the Big Six publishing houses tend to ignore.
Thursday 18 October 2012
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Monitor
Hannu Rajaniemi's The Fractal Prince, Terry Pratchett's A Blink of the Screen: Collected Short Fiction, Peter F. Hamilton's Great North Road, Iain M. Banks' The Hydrogen Sonata, and other titles by Bradbury, Erikson, Hunt, McLeod, Polansky, and Pullman
Wednesday 17 October 2012
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Reviews
From Locus Magazine's October 2012 issue
A fusion of the Arab Spring with djinn lore and a thoroughly modern thriller plot, Wilson's novel just might be the debut of the year.
Tuesday 16 October 2012
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Monitor
Released today: Gregory Benford & Larry Niven's Bowl of Heaven, Justin Cronin's The Twelve, and other titles by Banks, Bennett, Block, Brown, Chan, Drake, Furukawa, and Litore
Monday 15 October 2012
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Monitor
Karen Traviss' Halo: The Thursday War and titles by Jasper Fforde, Mercedes Lackey, and David Weber & Jane Lindskold debut.
Sunday 14 October 2012
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Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Rucker accomplishes a significant feat by mashing up Greg Bear-level speculations with a kind of On the Road vibe, full of slang-laden hipster contempt for the Establishment and a desire to break free of stifling conventions.
Saturday 13 October 2012
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Monitor
New issues of Analog, Asimov's, Black Static, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Interzone, Neo-Opsis, and The New York Review of Science Fiction
Friday 12 October 2012
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Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's October Issue interview.
While, in one sense, I'm proud to keep Analog as hard science fiction, I also sometimes wish that term would go away. So many people use it in a way that they think is what I mean by it, and it's completely different from what I really mean.
Thursday 11 October 2012
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Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by George R.R. Martin's A Dance with Dragons and A Game of Thrones, Ernest Cline's Ready Player One, Timothy Zahn's Star Wars: Choices of One, and R.A. Salvatore's Neverwinter.
Wednesday 10 October 2012
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Reviews
From Locus Magazine's October 2012 issue
We've seldom seen SF that can achieve the sort of sheer lyrical grace of Harrison's prose at its best — let alone SF that also cheerfully takes an epigraph from A.E. van Vogt, that relishes its moments of grotesque, percussive violence, and that at times is extremely funny.
Tuesday 9 October 2012
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Monitor
Released today: Iain M. Banks' The Hydrogen Sonata, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling's After, and titles by Barnhill, Clarke, Cummings, Gramazio, Harrison, Park, Rabuzzi, and Siegel; earlier, Neal Barrett Jr.'s Other Seasons, Lavie Tidhar's The Apex Book of World SF 2, and titles Holm, Rambo, and Turzillo
Monday 8 October 2012
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Monitor
Terry Pratchett's Dodger debuts on children's lists; associational titles by Rowling, Chabon, and Díaz dominate fiction lists.
Sunday 7 October 2012
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Reviews
Reviews of stories in Jonathan Strahan's upcoming anthology Edge of Infinity and in issues of Nightmare, Eclipse Online, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Clarkesworld, Apex, and GigaNotoSaurus
Saturday 6 October 2012
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Monitor
John Joseph Adams' new horror 'zine Nightmare debuts, Black Gate begins posting fiction online; plus, new issues of Apex, Arc, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, GigaNotoSaurus, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Lightspeed, SF Site, and Subterranean
Friday 5 October 2012
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Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Point of Knives: A Novella of Astreiant fills the gap between Point of Hopes and Point of Dreams. This return to Astreiant is very welcome, but it may not entirely eliminate fan frustration...
Thursday 4 October 2012
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Magazine
October New and Notable books include Brian & Wendy Froud's Trolls, Edward James & Farah Mendlesohn's The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature, and other titles by Barzak, Carson, Doctorow & Stross, Egan, Ford, Harrison, Jones, Kadrey, Lawrence, Leslie, Phillips, and Sedia.
Wednesday 3 October 2012
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Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's October Issue interview.
If I tell you a really horrific thing in pretty language, you get to the end of it and suddenly you're like, 'Wait, wait! What was that? Did that guy get stabbed in the guts?' It's interesting when you have a conflict between voice and content.
Tuesday 2 October 2012
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Monitor
Released today: Cory Doctorow's Pirate Cinema, Catherynne M. Valente's The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There, Max Gladstone's first novel Three Parts Dead, and other titles by Bein, Buehlman, Campbell, Carey, Connolly, Drake, Fforde (two), Flint & Gannon, Hendee, Hunter, Jerome, Lackey, Lebbon, Lindqvist, Myers, and Weber & Lindskold; earlier, Patricia A. McKillip's Wonders of the Invisible World and titles by Bray, Healey, and Wilkins & Berman
Monday 1 October 2012
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Monitor
David Weber's Midst Toil and Tribulation debuts at #10 on two lists.
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Charles N. Brown, 1937-2009
— Appreciations —
is published in Oakland, CA, by editor-in-chief Liza Groen Trombi and a staff of editors, including Kirsten Gong-Wong, Amelia Beamer, Tim Pratt, and Carolyn Cushman.
is published in Los Angeles, CA, by editor and webmaster Mark R. Kelly, with News posts and Roundtable oversight by the Locus Office staff in Oakland.
compiled by Mark R. Kelly, includes listings, indexes, summaries, and statistics on nearly 100 SF, fantasy, and horror awards from 1949 through 2009
compiled by William Contento, indexes books and magazines seen by Locus Magazine, by title, author, and contents.
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Combined Index published on CD ROM.
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