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November 2014 Posts: Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, late NovemberSunday 30 November 2014 | Reviews
Reviews of stories from Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Tor.com, Analog, and Asimov's
Russell Letson reviews Ann LeckieSaturday 29 November 2014 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's November 2014 issue
Ann Leckie's debut novel, Ancillary Justice, created instant buzz in the field and then took a thoroughly deserved fistful of big awards. To my delight, Ancillary Sword is an even stronger book, though it takes an interestingly different path than the one that made Justice a bit of a magical mystery tour de force. Periodicals: late NovemberFriday 28 November 2014 | Monitor
Terraform debuts; new issues of Beneath Ceaseless Skies and Intergalactic Medicine Show; and what's new this month at Strange Horizons and Tor.com
Paul Di Filippo reviews Mike and Rachel Grinti's Jala's MaskThursday 27 November 2014 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
They have produced a very amiable, engaging, small-scale fantasy, praiseworthy both for its entertaining qualities and its "done in one" remit. Although not technically a YA, the book has an overall texture and tone akin to the best of Andre Norton, a writer whom many adult readers certainly and justifiably esteem. Classic Reprints: NovemberWednesday 26 November 2014 | Monitor
Michael Bishop's Count Geiger's Blues, two early books by Greg Egan, and titles by James Gunn & Jack Williamson, Richard Kadrey, and Charles Sheffield
New Books : 25 NovemberTuesday 25 November 2014 | Monitor
David Nickle's collection Knife Fight and Other Struggles and titles by Estep, Grant, Harris & Kelner, Huff, Johnson, Kent, and Parks
This Week's BestsellersMonday 24 November 2014 | Monitor
Stephen King's Revival is #1.
Linda Nagata: Adventure FirstSunday 23 November 2014 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's November Issue interview
In 1995 there was no self-publishing option for a career, and of course things have changed incredibly since then. I hesitate to give career advice, because everybody's career is going to go in a different direction, but I'd say, consider all your options.
"The Revolution Will Be Televised": A Review of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
Saturday 22 November 2014 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
I have been studying the films of the unfolding Hunger Games saga as a revealingly successful effort to reflect the attitudes and opinions of the teenagers and young adults in their target audience. And, in a manner that is both fascinating and annoying, this new film offers additional insights into the minds of America's future leaders. Periodicals: mid-NovemberFriday 21 November 2014 | Monitor
New issues of Analog, Asimov's, Aurealis, Bastion, Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Perihelion, Shimmer, The Dark, and Uncanny
Paul Di Filippo reviews Brad R. TorgersenThursday 20 November 2014 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
A fix-up or expansion that includes two earlier stories, one of which made the Hugo ballot in 2014, The Chaplain's War is wartime SF with a unique slant, offering moral and ethical complexities, adroit characterization, and plenty of firepower thrills as well. Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, mid-NovemberWednesday 19 November 2014 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in the debut issue of new 'zine Uncanny and in new issues of Interzone, Shimmer, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Lightspeed, and Strange Horizons
New Books : 18 NovemberTuesday 18 November 2014 | Monitor
The Collected Stories of Frank Herbert, Spectrum 21: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, and titles by Cory Doctorow, Peter Dub&3acute;, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., and Sean Wallace
This Week's BestsellersMonday 17 November 2014 | Monitor
Anne Rice's Prince Lestat is #1 at Los Angeles Times.
Faren Miller reviews Gregory Maguire's Egg & SpoonSunday 16 November 2014 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's November 2014 issue
Mingling in-jokes with history and witchcraft, fantastic creatures with disruptions in the weather, Egg & Spoon provides a feast much richer, subtler (and more digestible) than borscht with a side order of breakfast cereal. Gary K. Wolfe reviews Lavie Tidhar's A Man Lies DreamingSaturday 15 November 2014 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's November 2014 issue
No one can accuse Lavie Tidhar of being risk-averse. Tidhar's latest variation on 20th-century history takes us into an alternate 1939 in which Adolf Hitler, having lost the 1933 German election to the Communists, is scraping by as a down-at-the-heels private eye in London. New in Paperback: NovemberFriday 14 November 2014 | Monitor
Andy Weir's The Martian and titles by Anthony, Baxter, Blake, Griffith, Hobb, Martin & Dozois, McDevitt, and Merz
Locus Bestsellers, NovemberThursday 13 November 2014 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Brent Weeks' The Broken Eye, George R.R. Martin's A Dance with Dragons, Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice, and titles by John Jackson Miller and Richard Lee Byers.
Hannu Rajaniemi: Posthuman UtopiasWednesday 12 November 2014 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's November Issue interview
Real science is an infinite source of fascinating ideas. You can come up with these interesting connections: the very reason the first book is called The Quantum Thief is that I started wondering what a futuristic gentleman thief would actually steal in a post-scarcity society. What is there to be stolen? New Books : 11 NovemberTuesday 11 November 2014 | Monitor
Stephen King's Revival, Cixin Liu's The Three-Body Problem, Small Beer Press collections by Delia Sherman and Ysabeau S. Wilce, Stephen Jones' 25th Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, and titles by Neal Asher and Jessica Leake
This Week's BestsellersMonday 10 November 2014 | Monitor
Titles by Patrick Rothfuss, Anne Rice, William Gibson, and National Book Award finalist Emily St. John Mandel debut on print lists.
Periodicals: early NovemberSunday 9 November 2014 | Monitor
New issues of Apex, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, Galaxy's Edge, GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, and Nightmare
"2014: A Grand Ole Odyssey": A Review of Interstellar
Saturday 8 November 2014 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
It requires considerable courage to make a film that, as I will argue, undertakes to both emulate and refute 2001: A Space Odyssey; and while I ultimately found its argument unpersuasive, the film is still provocative and, one might say, intelligently misguided in ways that are unfortunately rare in today’s filmmaking marketplace. Paul Di Filippo reviews Steven EriksonFriday 7 November 2014 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Now comes Steven Erikson's rendition of a Star Trek homage-cum-dismantling. Erikson's version is Monty Python by way of Steve Aylett, a mad, sometimes surreal running amok of pure Id, Libido, Irreverence and Anti-authoritarianism... Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early NovemberThursday 6 November 2014 | Reviews
Reviews of stories from hard SF anthology Carbide Tipped Pens and from issues of Clarkesworld and Apex, with recommendations of stories by Gregory Benford and Robert Reed
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, NovemberWednesday 5 November 2014 | Magazine
November New and Notable books include Ellen Datlow's anthology Nightmare Carnival and titles by Abercrombie, Bacigalupi, Belcher, Bennett, Clarke, Gould, Leckie, Morgan, Nix, Powers, Pratchett, Strahan, and Szarlan.
New Books : 4 NovemberTuesday 4 November 2014 | Monitor
Harry Harrison! Harry Harrison!, Steven Erikson's Willful Child, Jack McDevitt's Coming Home, and titles by Baxter, Bedford, Brenchley, Brennan, Card, Carriger, Clark, Czerneda, Green, Grinti & Grinti, Marillier, Martin & Snodgrass, Metzl, Niven et al, Shinn, and Williams
This Week's BestsellersMonday 3 November 2014 | Monitor
The World of Ice & Fire enters the USA Today list; still selling well at Amazon
Cory Doctorow: Stories Are a Fuggly HackSunday 2 November 2014 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's November Issue.
Storytelling is a fuggly (funky and ugly — that is, cool but also really weird and inefficient) hack to get you to feel stuff — make up a story about imaginary people in order to trick your naive empathy into believing that they exist so that you empathize with them and then feel some cool and difficult emotions. November Issue Table of ContentsSaturday 1 November 2014 | Magazine
The November issue features interviews with authors Hannu Rajaniemi and Linda Nagata, a new column by Cory Doctorow, a special R.A. Lafferty Centennial feature, a spotlight on Joe Monti, and reviews of short fiction and books by Lavie Tidhar, Ann Leckie, Stephen King, Gregory Maguire, and others.
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