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March 2017 Posts: Periodicals: late MarchFriday 31 March 2017 | Monitor
Fourth issue of new quarterly 'zine Into the Ruins, and March issues and content at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Daily SF, Fireside, Persistent Visions, Strange Horizons, Terraform, and Tor.com
Liz Bourke reviews Lara Elena DonnellyThursday 30 March 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's March 2017 issue
Amberlough isn't a cheerful book, but it has an amazing voice. Its spy-thriller twists and ever-growing tension combine to provide an extraordinarily entertaining ride. And I have to say: if this is her debut? I can't wait to see what Donnelly does next. John Langan reviews Silvia Moreno-GarciaWednesday 29 March 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's March 2017 issue
With Certain Dark Things, Silvia Moreno-Garcia demonstrates that there is always more to be done with familiar figures such as the vampire, and that in the hands of a talented writer, the creatures can rise to new (un)life. New Books : 28 MarchTuesday 28 March 2017 | Monitor
Ian McDonald's Luna: Wolf Moon and titles by Eves, McDermott, Sapkowski, Taylor, and Westerfeld
This Week's BestsellersMonday 27 March 2017 | Monitor
A new edition of Rowling's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140, and Andrzej Sapowski's The Lady of the Lake debut.
Classics In Reprint: MarchSunday 26 March 2017 | Monitor
The seventh volume of Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson, a 50th-anniversary edition of Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby, and new editions of novels by Richard Bowes and Tanith Lee
Mutiny of the Unknown Alien Slime: A Review of Life
Saturday 25 March 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
From one perspective, Life represents yet another example of a recent Hollywood trend that I find heartening — a renewed interest in realistic depictions of humanity's probable future in space. ... Regrettably, however, Life ultimately becomes a conventional, and sometimes silly, horror film. Russell Letson reviews Cory DoctorowFriday 24 March 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's March 2017 issue
For all of its engagement with What's Happenin' Now, Baby, Walkaway feels like good old-fashioned science fiction: part thrill-ride, part warning, part all-night political wrangle with your really smart college roommate. Gary K. Wolfe reviews Cat SparksThursday 23 March 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's March 2017 issue
[Her] fine first novel Lotus Blue, set in a far future Australian wasteland, is as evocative of Terry Dowling's Rynosseros stories, with their neat sandships, or even of David R. Bunch's surreal Moderan stories, as it is of George Miller's monster truck rallies. Paul Di Filippo reviews Caitlín R. KiernanWednesday 22 March 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
The heterogeneous tales assembled in this collection display Kiernan's large but tightly interlocked range of interests. Outsiders, art, the elements, transcendence, sex, love, failure, responsibility. New Books : 21 MarchTuesday 21 March 2017 | Monitor
John Scalzi's The Collapsing Empire, Mishell Baker's Phantom Pains, and titles by Allan, Asher, Clarke, Cornell, Fujii, Lebbon, Strickland & Miller, and Weis & Krammes
This Week's BestsellersMonday 20 March 2017 | Monitor
Patricia Briggs' Silence Fallen, Mohsin Hamid's Exit West, and Anne Bishop's Etched in Bone debut.
Paul Di Filippo reviews Kim Stanley RobinsonSunday 19 March 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
This book is amiable, humorous, good-natured, optimistic, in love with the quotidian and with the crazy quilt adaptive existence that life under stress assumes. Robinson gives us a host of fascinating, interlocking plots, and some of them have global resonance. Periodicals: mid-MarchSaturday 18 March 2017 | Monitor
New issues of Apex, Aphelion, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Perihelion, and Uncanny
New in Paperback: February - MarchFriday 17 March 2017 | Monitor
Robert J. Sawyer's Quantum Night, Allen Steele's Arkwright, and titles by Abercrombie, Brennan, Das, Lawrence, Locke, Oyeyemi, Staveley, Straub, Tremblay, and Valente
Adrienne Martini reviews Carrie VaughnThursday 16 March 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2017 issue
Carrie Vaughn's Martians Abroad clearly shares DNA with Heinlein's juveniles, and is, the author states, and homage to Podkayne of Mars. Paul Di Filippo reviews Paul La FargeThursday 15 March 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Put most simplistically, it's a novel examining the friendship between H. P. Lovecraft and his teenage pal, Robert Barlow, who became HPL's literary executor. But it's also much more than that, as we shall see. New Books : 14 MarchTuesday 14 March 2017 | Monitor
Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140 and titles by Fletcher, Helmreich, Knaak, Murad & Shurin, Neumeier, Newman, and Xue
This Week's BestsellersMonday 13 March 2017 | Monitor
Kristen Britain's Firebrand debuts; George Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo and Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology rank #1 or #2 on four lists.
Jane Yolen: Accidental NovelistSunday 12 March 2017 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's March Issue interview
Children's books and young-adult books and fantasy have this in common: the best are written like poems. They have metaphor, they have astonishing lyrical prose, and they work on multiple levels. They are a gateway drug to beautiful literature, and shouldn't be dismissed.
Bungle in the Jungle: A Review of Kong: Skull Island
Saturday 11 March 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Kong: Skull Island actually begins quite promisingly, as we are introduced to a diverse and generally appealing cast of characters, and they gather together to journey to the mysterious Skull Island and confront the enormous, and initially hostile, King Kong. ... Unfortunately, the film devolves into an iterative, and increasingly unpleasant, series of variations on the two basic set pieces observed in all giant monster movies: humans vs. monster, and monster vs. monster. Locus Magazine's Forthcoming Books: Selected Titles through December 2017Friday 10 March 2017 | Resources
Titles from Locus Magazine's March issue listings of Selected Forthcoming Books by Author are arranged here by month.
Locus Bestsellers, MarchThursday 9 March 2017 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by James S.A. Corey's Babylon's Ashes, Patrick Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind, Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life and Others, and James Luceno's Star Wars: Catalyst.
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Ken LiuWednesday 8 March 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2017 issue
The Wall of Storms is a far more complex and rewarding novel than The Grace of Kings — unusual for the middle book in a series, and equally unusual is that it can be appreciated largely as a standalone. New Books : 7 MarchTuesday 7 March 2017 | Monitor
Paul La Farge's The Night Ocean, Ada Palmer's Seven Surrenders, Jaroslav Kalfar's Spaceman of Bohemia, Cat Sparks' Lotus Blue, and titles by Bailey & Schmidt, Bishop, Bledsoe, Briggs, Butler, Christopher, Claycomb, Fortune, Hamilton, Henderson, Maresca, McClellan, McGuire, Rieder, and Wells
Langan reviews Pinborough: They Say a Girl Died Here OnceMonday 6 March 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's March 2017 issue
The family at the heart of They Say a Girl Died Here Once, Sarah Pinborough's excellent new novel, is in retreat. Three years prior to the book's opening, Anna, its teenaged protagonist, was slipped a date-rape drug at a party.... This Week's BestsellersMonday 6 March 2017 | Monitor
V.E. Schwab's A Conjuring of Light and Chuck Wendig's Empire's End: Aftermath debut; George Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo and Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology rank #1 and #2 on three lists.
John Joseph Adams: The Stars His DestinationSunday 5 March 2017 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's March Issue interview
Having read The Stars My Destination, I went on a quest to find more books like it, and ultimately that's what led to me becoming an editor — to driving myself to find things that would challenge me as a reader and change the way I read. Periodicals: early MarchSaturday 4 March 2017 | Monitor
New issues of Aurealis, Clarkesworld, Forever, Galaxy's Edge, GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, Mythis Delirium, Nightmare, and Shimmer
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, MarchFriday 3 March 2017 | Magazine
March New and Notable books include Mur Lafferty's Six Wakes and titles by Bond, Brust & White, Datlow, Delany, Dyer, Hand, Matthews, McGuire, Okorafor, Stross, and Vaughn
Cory Doctorow: The Jubilee: Fill Your BootsThursday 2 March 2017 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's March Issue.
Technology hints at another model, one that hybridizes the pre-industrial rhythms of work and play and the super-modern ability to use computers to solve otherwise transcendentally hard logistics and coordination problems. March 2017 Table of ContentsWednesday 1 March 2017 | Magazine
The March issue features interviews with Jane Yolen and John Joseph Adams, listings of forthcoming books through December 2017, a column by Cory Doctorow, an obituary with appreciations for Edward Bryant, and reviews of short fiction and books by Kim Stanley Robinson, Cory Doctorow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Lara Elena Donnelly, Henry Kuttner, Shaun Tan, and many others.
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