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May 2017 -- News Posts May 2017 Posts: Periodicals: late MayWednesday 31 May 2017 | Monitor
New issues of Black Static, Interzone, and Into the Ruins, plus May content at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Daily Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
New Books : 30 MayTuesday 30 May 2017 | Monitor
Kit Reed's Mormama and titles by Andrews, Black, Brennan, and Hough
This Week's BestsellersMonday 29 May 2017 | Monitor
Stephen King & Richard Chizmar's Gwendy's Button Box debuts on four lists.
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Claire NorthSunday 28 May 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's April 2017 issue
With its fragmented structure and occasionally self-consciously meditative prose, The End of the Day might puzzle some who enjoyed the thriller plotting of The Sudden Appearance of Hope, but at its best it reaffirms the passion and ambition that have made North such a consistently intriguing writer. Comments from the 2017 Locus Poll and SurveySaturday 27 May 2017 | Magazine
Here are comments, presented anonymously, submitted by voters in this year's Locus Poll and Survey. Results of the poll will be published in the magazine's July issue; survey results will appear in August issue.
Adrienne Martini reviews Robert Charles WilsonFriday 26 May 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's April 2017 issue
The past, it has been said, is another country. If you're August Kemp in Robert Charles Wilson's Last Year, that other country is one you can monetize. Stefan Dziemianowicz reviews Powers of DarknessThursday 25 May 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's April 2017 issue
Question: When is Bram Stoker's Dracula not Bram Stoker's Dracula? Answer: When it's Makt Myrkranna, a book whose title translates from the Icelandic as Powers of Darkness and which, in the early twentieth century, was published as the Icelandic-language edition of Stoker's vampire classic. New Books : 23 MayTuesday 23 May 2017 | Monitor
Michael Crichton's Dragon Teeth, Stephen King & Richard Chizmar's Gwendy's Button Box, and titles by Baldwin, Clare, Gailey, and Higgins
This Week's BestsellersMonday 22 May 2017 | Monitor
Robin Hobb's Assassin's Fate and Sherrilyn Kenyon's Deadmen Walking debut; Amazon.com debuts "Amazon Charts"
Periodicals: mid-MaySunday 21 May 2017 | Monitor
New issues of Aphelion, Aurealis, and The Dark
Contractual Obligations: A Review of Alien: Covenant
Saturday 20 May 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Unquestionably, Alien: Covenant fulfills its contractual obligations: so, if you have been longing to watch scene after scene of lunging aliens latching on the faces of intended victims and gruesomely slaughtering every one of them, this film represents the answer to your prayers. The very open question is whether anyone without that fervent yearning will want to sit through two hours and three minutes of this otherwise lamentable movie. Faren Miller reviews Brian StaveleyFriday 19 May 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's April 2017 issue
Over the course of killings and adventures, Skullsworn explores deeper issues love and death, humanity and Other without becoming ponderously profound... Stavely pulls it all off with style. Gary K. Wolfe reviews John KesselThursday 18 May 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's April 2017 issue
The Moon and the Other brilliantly balances character, social commentary, and hard SF in a novel of surprising density and depth of feeling. Paul Di Filippo reviews Robert Jackson BennettWednesday 17 May 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
The rest of the book is a hurdle across many venues, a cat-and-mouse game in which Sigrud and his allies have to stay one step ahead of Nokov to frustrate his plans for world domination. Finished pretty much with any fresh worldbuilding that activity was executed sufficiently in the first two books Bennett can now use his well-established venues and cultures as stagesets for incredible action. New Books : 16 MayTuesday 16 May 2017 | Monitor
Nebula Awards Showcase 2017, edited by Julie E. Czerneda, and titles by Campbell, Golden, MacLeod, Rossi, Smale, Turner, and Wallace
This Week's BestsellersMonday 15 May 2017 | Monitor
Sarah J. Maas' A Court of Wings and Ruin debuts prominently on two lists.
Ellen Klages: Magic in the MixSunday 14 May 2017 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's May Issue interview
I love short stories. Imagine holding a small carved bowl, its weight and shape and size a perfect fit for two cupped hands. The grain of the wood flows with the bowl's curves. The interplay of light and dark pleases the eye. The texture is silken against your skin. You turn it, admiring the craft, the artistry, and the detail. "It’s lovely," you say, handing it back to its creator. Then you say, "Now when are you going to make something real, like furniture?" New in Paperback: MaySaturday 13 May 2017 | Monitor
Guy Gavriel Kay's Children of Earth and Sky, Blake Crouch's Dark Matter, Neil Gaiman's The View from the Cheap Streets, and titles by Andrews, Bear, Coe, DeLillo, Green, Lockwood, Maas, Niven & Barnes, and Ryan
Paul Di Filippo reviews Bud SparhawkFriday 12 May 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Sparhawk offers us unflashy, solid tales which nonetheless often extend SF's remit. He never neglects either real technological novums nor humanistic story-telling values. He does not privilege message over entertainment, nor vice versa, but rather tries to keep both in balance. And in the end, he's all about the art and the history and traditions of the genre, not self-aggrandizing grandstanding. Gary K. Wolfe reviews Elizabeth HandThursday 11 May 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's March 2017 issue
PM Press's ongoing series of chapbook miscellanies of "outspoken authors" basically appetizer-size collections of fiction, non-fiction, and interviews can at their best convey a sense of meeting an old radical friend in a bar, sharing a few memories, and catching up on things. Elizabeth Hand's Fire, the series' 18th volume, offers a cross-section of Hand's work as both author and critic. Paul Di Filippo reviews Eric Flint & Mike ResnickWednesday 10 May 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Flint and Resnick deliver an outstanding, madcap, goofball adventure, with plenty of surprises and not a dull moment. If you want some points of comparison, I would adduce Ron Goulart, Keith Laumer, James Schmitz and a fellow who has unfortunately dropped off the publishing map that master of surreal japes, Philip Palmer. New Books : 9 MayTuesday 9 May 2017 | Monitor
Gregory Benford's The Berlin Project, Ellen Klages' Wicked Wonders, and titles by Hardinge, Hobb, Kenyon, Khaw, Kroese, Rustad, and White
This Week's BestsellersMonday 8 May 2017 | Monitor
Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale ranks #1 on two paperback lists.
Paul Tremblay: AftermathSunday 7 May 2017 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's May Issue interview
That's why the emotional lives of characters in books are so interesting to me. I want to know why people react in certain ways to different situations, and what decisions they're going to make after that. In the best horror stories, the horror happens somewhere in the middle. The interesting part for me is the aftermath: "What are people going to do now?" Periodicals: early MaySaturday 6 May 2017 | Monitor
New issues of Apex, Clarkesworld, Forever, Galaxy's Edge, GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Shimmer, and Uncanny
Locus Bestsellers, MayFriday 5 May 2017 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by V.E. Schwab's A Conjuring of Light, Patricia Briggs' Fire Touched, Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life and Others, and Claudia Gray's Star Wars: Bloodline.
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, MayThursday 4 May 2017 | Magazine
May New and Notable books include Ian McDonald's Luna: Wolf Moon and titles by Armstrong, Asher, Britain, Chokshi, Kessel, Lafferty, Matthews, Moon, Robinson, Scalzi, and Silverberg
Cory Doctorow: Weaponized NarrativeWednesday 3 May 2017 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's May Issue.
Walkaway is a utopian disaster novel. It's a novel about people doing right for one another under conditions of adversity. It's a deliberate, tactical rebuttal of the science fiction stories (including my own) that resort to the easy, lazy trope of having civilization erupt into violence, rape, and chaos the minute that technology fails. New Books : 2 MayTuesday 2 May 2017 | Monitor
Sharon Lee & Steve Miller's 20th Liaden novel The Gathering Edge, and titles by Bennett, Bennis, Carey, Danker, Douglas, Flint & Resnick, Gaiman & Srinivasan, Hoyt, Hunter, Koch, Kushner, Maas, McLean, Meadows, Ochse, Patel, Rhodes, Wells, and Zahn
This Week's BestsellersMonday 1 May 2017 | Monitor
Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale rises in the rankings.
May 2017 Table of ContentsMonday 1 May 2017 | Magazine
The May issue features interviews with Ellen Klages and Paul Tremblay, a column by Cory Doctorow, coverage of the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts and other conventions, and reviews of short fiction and books by Jonathan Strahan, Jeff VanderMeer, Ian McDonald, Clive Barker, Marie Brennan, and many others.
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