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January 2015 Posts: Paul Di Filippo reviews Neal AsherSaturday 31 January 2015 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
What Asher delivers here is state-of-the-art SF on so many levels. This type of SF is really the litmus test for separating serious readers from, say, media fans who might groove to Guardians of the Galaxy but blanch at A.E. van Vogt or John Wright, flavors of both of whom season Asher’s book. Periodicals: late JanuaryFriday 30 January 2015 | Monitor
New issues of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Farrago's Wainscot, and Uncanny, plus what's new this month at Daily Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Terraform, and Tor.com
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, late JanuaryThursday 29 January 2015 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, Tor.com, Unlikely Story, Kaleidotrope, Shimmer, and Farrago's Wainscot, with recommendations of stories by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, Michael Andre-Driussi, and Megan E. O'Keefe
Russell Letson reviews Elizabeth BearWednesday 28 January 2015 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's January 2015 issue
Karen Memory is a delight, a tour-de-force of historical reimagining and character creation, and a ripping yarn full of surprises, and despite Karen’s opening line, I can't imagine anyone not liking what she has to tell us. New Books : 27 JanuaryTuesday 27 January 2015 | Monitor
Walter Mosley's Inside a Silver Box and titles by Cole, Dietz, Shannon, Shearin, Sykes, and Van Eekhout
This Week's BestsellersMonday 26 January 2015 | Monitor
Dean Koontz's Saint Odd debuts at #1.
Lauren Beukes: Shining GirlSunday 25 January 2015 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's January Issue interview
Actual serial killers are not diabolical Hannibal Lecters. They're not super smart. Some of them can be charming and functional, but many of them are pathetic lonesome losers who feel powerless in the world. ... They're not monsters; they're vile opportunists. New Books : January SupplementalSaturday 24 January 2015 | Monitor
The Collectors' Book of Virgil Finlay and titles by Strayhorn, Sykes, and Williams
Spotlight On: David Pomerico, Editorial DirectorFriday 23 January 2015 | Perspectives
My vision is to help continue the great science fiction and fantasy tradition at Harper Voyager. Voyager has been doing such an amazing job in terms of fantasy. I think one area that I'm really excited about is expanding our list a bit, specifically in terms of science fiction.
Classic Reprints: JanuaryThursday 22 January 2015 | Monitor
A collection of Harlan Ellison's award-winning short fiction, two novels by Greg Egan, and the first novel of Jacqueline Carey
Paul Di Filippo reviews Michael MoorcockWednesday 21 January 2015 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Up until page 35 of Michael Moorcock's brilliant new fabulaic book, The Whispering Swarm, you assume you are reading a straightforward roman a clef, a subtly transmogrified autobiographical memoir of a young fellow named Michael Moorcock... But then onto the mundane scene comes one Friar Isadore, a strange humble little chap who is a member of the secretive order known as the White Friars. New Books : 20 JanuaryTuesday 20 January 2015 | Monitor
The final volume in Dean Koontz' Odd Thomas series, Saint Odd, plus titles by Files, Fine, Hocking, O'Flaherty, Powers, and Pratchett/Stewart/Cohen
This Week's BestsellersMonday 19 January 2015 | Monitor
Brandon Sanderson's Firefight debuts.
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, mid-JanuarySunday 18 January 2015 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of Clarkesworld, Uncanny, and Aoex, and in the debut issue of Straeon
New in Paperback: JanuarySaturday 17 January 2015 | Monitor
Joe Haldeman's Work Done for Hire, Stephen King's Mr. Mercedes, Allen Steele's V-S Day, and titles by Cook, Friedman, Hendee & Hendee, Modesitt, Spoor, Tregillis, Weber, and Wright
Paul Di Filippo reviews Greg van Eekhout's Pacific FireFriday 16 January 2015 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Van Eekhout's scrupulously crafted language continues to flaunt that Zelazny-esque balance of demotic and poetic. He is very kind to his readers by putting lots of background info up front to bring newbies up to speed. But really, this sequel is merely the second half of a single long narrative... Periodicals: mid-JanuaryThursday 15 January 2015 | Monitor
New issues of Apex, Aphelion, Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Galaxy's Edge, Kaleidotrope, Mythic Delirium, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and Perihelion
Gary K. Wolfe reviews James MorrowWednesday 14 January 2015 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's January 2015 issue
I can think of few authors who would try to cast a deeply intellectual psychomachia in the form of a wildly comic picaresque tall tale, and fewer still who could get away with it and have so much fun in the process. New Books : 13 JanuaryTuesday 13 January 2015 | Monitor
James Morrow's Galapágos Regained, Michael Moorcock's The Whispering Swarm, Jo Walton's The Just City, and titles by Black, Carey, Grahame-Smith, Larke, Rusch, and Staveley
This Week's BestsellersMonday 12 January 2015 | Monitor
Highest ranking paperbacks this week are Haruki Murakami's The Strange Library and Andy Weir's The Martian.
Robert Jackson Bennett: SubrealitySunday 11 January 2015 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's January Issue interview
I've always loved the Cold War and spy novels. I love the idea that there's something fake and transient about those lives. These people are ghosts. They go from hotel room to hotel room. They exist in this interstitial realm in urban society. I found that really interesting, the idea that spies live in a subreality of our own... Faren Miller reviews Alaya Dawn JohnsonSaturday 10 January 2015 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's January 2015 issue
Blending elements of mainstream YA, dystopian SF, and political thriller, Love Is the Drug manages to fascinate, wherever and whenever it may go. Spotlight On: An Owomoyela, Writer and EditorFriday 9 January 2015 | Perspectives
When it comes to hard SF, a lot of my interest is rooted in the fact that science is absolutely wonderful. Once you start catching glimpses of it, it's hard not to let it capture your imagination and shake up your thinking patterns.
Locus Bestsellers, JanuaryThursday 8 January 2015 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Patrick Rothfuss' The Slow Regard of Silent Things, Mercedes Lackey's Bastion, Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice, and titles by Kirsten Beyer and R.A. Salvatore.
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early JanuaryWednesday 7 January 2015 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of Asimov's, Analog, Interzone, and Lightspeed
New Books : 6 JanuaryTuesday 6 January 2015 | Monitor
Karen Lord's The Galaxy Game, Pierce Brown's Golden Son, Pete Terrin's The Guard, and titles by Aaronovitch, Asher, Benson, Campbell, Coe, Gordon, Green, Harper, Hendee & Hendee, Hines, Kristjansson, Lee, Love, Merz, Older, Ringo, Sanderson, and Shepherd
This Week's BestsellersMonday 5 January 2015 | Monitor
Highest ranking titles again this week are Stephen King's Revival and Andy Weir's The Martian.
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, JanuarySunday 4 January 2015 | Magazine
January New and Notable books include Jack McDevitt's Coming Home and titles by Allen, Brissett, Finn & Cramer, Fleskes, Grant, Herbert, Jones, King, Klima, Rice, Sherman, and Williams.
Periodicals: early JanuarySaturday 3 January 2015 | Monitor
New issues of Analog, Asimov's, Clarkesworld, Fireside, GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Quantum Muse, and Shimmer
Cory Doctorow: A New Deal for CopyrightFriday 2 January 2015 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's January Issue.
Last November, I published a book-length essay about how copyright is failing to serve artists, and how it has come to present a clear and present danger to wider society. The book is called Information Doesn't Want to Be Free, and it is composed of three snappy arguments... January Issue Table of ContentsThursday 1 January 2015 | Magazine
The January issue has interviews with Lauren Beukes and Robert Jackson Bennett, a column by Cory Doctorow, spotlights on David Pomerico and Randy & Jean-Marc Lofficier, reports from Cheryl Morgan and Tobias S. Buckell, and reviews of short fiction and books by James Morrow, John Twelve Hawks, Elizabeth Bear, Ramsey Campbell, David Mitchell, and many others.
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