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 October 2015 -- News Posts   
October 2015 Posts: Periodicals: late OctoberSaturday 31 October 2015 | Monitor
New issues of Analog, Asimov's, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and what's new this month at Daily SF, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
Faren Miller reviews Nancy Jane MooreFriday 30 October 2015 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's August 2015 issue
The Weave, a first novel by Nancy Jane Moore, is science fiction that thoroughly deserves its advance praise by Vonda N. McIntyre and Michael Bishop. Rather than simply chronicle the first human expedition to a solar system beyond our own, First Contact with sentient aliens, and the ensuing war, Moore shows a future Earth and that alien world as experienced by two protagonists – one human, one alien – in plotlines that intertwine throughout the book... Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, late OctoberThursday 29 October 2015 | Reviews
Reviews of stories from Analog, Asimov's, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Tor.com, with recommendations for Rebecca Campbell, Greg Egan, Robert Reed, Yoon Ha Lee, and Maria Dahvana Headley
Paul Di Filippo reviews Matthew De AbaituaWednesday 28 October 2015 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
This is the kind of post-apocalypse, after-it-all-changed novel — with clever codicils — that the Brits do with so much more classy, idiosyncratic style than anyone else. It is full of magisterial weirdness, logical surrealism, melancholy joy and hopeful terror. If I begin to toss out names like Adam Roberts, Brian Aldiss, Keith Roberts, and J. G. Ballard, I will not be lavishing undue praise. New Books : 27 OctoberTuesday 27 October 2015 | Monitor
Gregory Maguire's After Alice, Ellen Datlow's anthology The Monstrous, and titles by Bickle, Bowen, Carr, Clarke, Correia, Danielewski, Gerritsen, Kressel, Mitchell, Pillsworth, and Shepherd
This Week's BestsellersMonday 26 October 2015 | Monitor
David Weber's Hell's Foundations Quiver debuts on three lists.
Classic Reprints: September - OctoberSunday 25 October 2015 | Monitor
Collections by Kelley Armstrong, Charles Beaumont, Nancy Kress, and Clifford D. Simak, an anthology from Audrey Niffenegger, and new editions of novels by Greg Bear, Ursula K. Le Guin, Michael Moorcock, and William Sloane
Faren Miller reviews Ken ScholesSaturday 24 October 2015 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's August 2015 issue
While the titles in Ken Scholes's Psalms of Isaak sequence for Tor seem as monumental as Bach oratorios (Lamentation, Canticle, Antiphon, Requiem and the forthcoming Hymn), his collections have longer, more offbeat yet deliberately chosen names. In November 2008 (issue #574) I reviewed Long Walks, Last Flights, and Other Strange Journeys. Though I missed the sequel, I'm back for his third collection, Blue Yonders, Grateful Pies and Other Fanciful Feasts. Ysabeau Wilce reviews Marguerite ReedFriday 23 October 2015 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's September 2015 issue
Though Archangel, Marguerite Reed’s debut SF novel, may begin with the warning "This is not Eden," the planet Ubastis certainly seems that way to those not privileged enough to live there. Paul Di Filippo reviews William R. ForstchenThursday 22 October 2015 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Forstchen's braiding of these four chords is deft and exciting and symphonic. In the midst of battle, Matherson has a moment to contemplate his daughter's condition. In the midst of a community pig roast, he is formulating strategy. The organic feel of the story replicates the blended nature of real life, where at any one moment we are all juggling a dozen different issues. Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, mid-OctoberWednesday 21 October 2015 | Reviews
Reviews of stories from Kaleidotrope, Apex, Unlikely Story, On Spec, and Strange Horizons
New Books : 20 OctoberTuesday 20 October 2015 | Monitor
Gene Wolfe's A Borrowed Man, Catherynne M. Valente's Radiance, and titles by Cameron, Card, Danvers, Howard, Joshi, Karpyshyn, Kaufman & Kristoff, Lovett, Mamatas & Washington, Newman, Riddle, and Wallace
This Week's BestsellersMonday 19 October 2015 | Monitor
George R.R. Martin's A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Brandon Sanderson's Shadows of Self, and John Sandford & Ctein's Saturn Run debut on print lists.
Elizabeth Hand: Sunlit HorrorSunday 18 October 2015 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's October Issue interview
Just because you’re young and really stoned and in a weird creepy place, that doesn't mean something really weird and creepy isn't actually happening. I like the notion, too, that you don't know you've seen a ghost until afterward. I wanted to play with that, the idea of sunlit horror. Most of Wylding Hall takes place during the day. Periodicals: mid-OctoberSaturday 17 October 2015 | Monitor
New issues of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and Perihelion
New in Paperback: OctoberFriday 16 October 2015 | Monitor
William Gibson's The Peripheral and titles by Bova & Johnson, Campbell, Carriger, Grant, Harris, Ing, Krokos, Lackey, Lackey et al, Manieri, and Westerfeld
Faren Miller reviews N.K. JemisinThursday 15 October 2015 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's September 2015 issue
N. K. Jemisin's new novel The Fifth Season starts the Broken Earth, a series "set in a world where apocalypse is routine." We see its devastating impact on a large continent known as The Stillness, an ironic name for land this volatile, periodically beset by Fifth Seasons where great faultlines crack, spawning volcanoes whose smoke can hide the sun for years at a time, while lava obscures most of the previous culture — leaving behind only a mix of rumors and ruins, in the fragments of "stonelore" that endure. Paul Di Filippo reviews Seth DickinsonWednesday 14 October 2015 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Cherryh’s influence can be seen and felt, I think, in the debut novel from Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant. There is the same sense of culture clash mediated through politesse, with deadly stakes, for one major aspect. But another tributary stream flows into the book, and those equally rich waters derive from Samuel Delany’s Return to Nevčr˙on series. New Books : 13 OctoberTuesday 13 October 2015 | Monitor
Stephen R. Donaldson's The King's Justice, Garth Nix's Newt's Emerald, and titles by Barnett, Brewer & Phillips, Gwynne, Moffitt, Monette & Bear, Morris, Parks, Planck, Pratchett, Sage, Slatter, and Weber
This Week's BestsellersMonday 12 October 2015 | Monitor
Jim Butcher's The Aeronaut's Windlass debuts strongly.
Kameron Hurley: On Career-Building: The Marathon in the DesertSunday 11 October 2015 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's October Issue.
There is no happily ever after in life, or in the career you're building. There's no gold medal. No end to the race. There is just the endless marathon through a desert teaming with snakes and jagged rocks and riddled with the bones of exhausted colleagues who have fallen along the way. Periodicals: early OctoberSaturday 10 October 2015 | Monitor
New issues of Apex, Aphelion, Clarkesworld, Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Fireside, Forever, GigaNotoSaurus, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Kaleidotrope, Lightspeed, Mythic Delirium, and Nightmare
Locus Bestsellers, OctoberFriday 9 October 2015 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora, George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones, Andy Weir's The Martian, and titles by David R. George III and R.A. Salvatore
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early OctoberThursday 8 October 2015 | Reviews
Reviews of stories from new issues of F&SF, Clarkesworld, and Lightspeed
Adrienne Martini reviews Max GladstoneWednesday 7 October 2015 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's August 2015 issue
I am an unabashed Max Gladstone fan. His Craft sequence, in which the use of magic is intertwined with the business of insurance, is deeply satisfying. ... Last First Snow [is] the most recently released but also the first title in the sequence. New Books : 6 OctoberTuesday 6 October 2015 | Monitor
Ann Leckie's Ancillary Mercy, George R.R. Martin's A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Joe Hill's The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015, John Sandford & Ctein's Saturn Run, and titles by Bear, Davidson, de Pierres, Fowler, Gannon, Gilman, Golden, Huff, Hurley, Kilpatrick, Knight, Lackey, Moyer, Ness, Parker, Rowland, Sanderson, Sniegoski, Steinmetz, Tingey, Weber/Zahn/Pope, and Wong
This Week's BestsellersMonday 5 October 2015 | Monitor
Andy Weir's The Martian reigns on trade paperback lists.
'A Huge Moment for NASA' ... and Novelists: A Review of The Martian
Sunday 4 October 2015 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Ridley Scott's The Martian is the best film I've seen in a long, long time, and it can be enthusiastically recommended as involving and uplifting entertainment. ... Still, even while sincerely enjoying the film, I also felt a certain sense of ambivalence. For it was clearly and regularly trying to persuade me to believe something that is not true. Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, OctoberFriday 2 October 2015 | Magazine
October New and Notable books are by Stephen Baxter, Jonathan Carroll, Aliette de Bodard, Cecelia Holland, Harry Turtledove, and others.
October Issue Table of ContentsThursday 1 October 2015 | Magazine
The October issue features an interview with Elizabeth Hand, reports on Sasquan including complete Hugo voting results, a new column by Kameron Hurley, and reviews of short fiction and books by Gene Wolfe, Christopher Moore, Ian McDonald, Michael Swanwick, Mercedes Lackey, Paul Tremblay, and many others.
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