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Nina Kiriki Hoffman: Young at HeartWednesday 30 December 2009 | Magazine; Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's December Issue interview.
The commercial way to write adult fiction seems to involve catastrophic blah blah blah, and maybe multiple viewpoints, but that's not what I do. I have a mental age that's in the younger camp. Michael Dirda: Dashing International Man of Mystery and Sophisticated BoulevardierMonday 28 December 2009 | Magazine; Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's December Issue interview.
The books we can't make sense of, that knock us off-kilter, that we don't accept readily, will often be the books that matter most to the next generation. Faren Miller reviews Kit WhitfieldMonday 28 December 2009 | Reviews; Magazine
From Locus Magazine's December 2009 Issue
A superb fantasy that substitutes merfolk for werewolves and employs both historic figures and her own variations on the mindsets of late-medieval England to great effect. Graham Sleight's Yesterday's Tomorrows: Brian AldissTuesday 22 December 2009 | Reviews; Magazine
From Locus Magazine's December 2009 Issue
Aldiss has always had an instinct — rarer and rarer as bloat has set into SF over the last few decades — that a story should keep revealing itself right up to the end. Locus Magazine Bestsellers, DecemberThursday 17 December 2009 | Magazine; 2009 Posts
Locus Magazine Bestsellers are led by S.M. Stirling's The Sword of the Lady, Patricia Briggs' Hunting Ground, Austen & Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and titles by Troy Denning and Karen Traviss.
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, DecemberSunday 13 December 2009 | Magazine; 2009 Posts
December New and Notable books, selected by Locus Magazine editors, include Jeff VanderMeer's Finch, Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan, Theodore Sturgeon's Slow Sculpture, and other titles by Adams, Elizabeth Bear, Greg Bear, Blaylock, Brusen, Datlow, Kelly & Kessel, Strahan, and Whitfield.
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Daryl GregorySunday 13 December 2009 | Reviews; Magazine
From Locus Magazine's December 2009 Issue
Daryl Gregory continues to be amongst the most interesting of the newer writers to emerge in the past decade, and he's rapidly becoming one of the most unpredictable... Forthcoming Books: Selected Titles, through September 2010Wednesday 2 December 2009 | Resources
Selected titles from Locus Magazine's December issue listings are arranged here by month.
December Issue Table of ContentsTuesday 1 December 2009 | Magazine
The December issue features interviews with Michael Dirda and Nina Kiriki Hoffman, forthcoming books listings through September 2010, reports and photos from World Fantasy Con, reviews of new books by Margaret Atwood, Terry Pratchett, Iain M. Banks, Jack McDevitt, Robert McCammon, Daryl Gregory, and Graham Sleight on Brian Aldiss.
Paul Witcover reviews The Secret History of Science FictionSaturday 28 November 2009 | Reviews; Magazine
From Locus Magazine's November 2009 Issue, a review of the anthology edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel
As I read these stories... I became convinced that there really are substantial differences between genre speculative fiction of literary ambition and what is written outside the genre, even if it contains speculative elements. And I think these stories prove it: that is the secret history of The Secret History. Jack Skillingstead: WatchmakerFriday 27 November 2009 | Magazine; Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's November Issue interview.
I learned by doing. In my early twenties I tried to take stories apart like watches. I would find a story I kind of liked (but not one that I was in love with) and I would type it up so I could see what it looked like as it came out of the typewriter... Russell Letson reviews Larry NivenMonday 23 November 2009 | Reviews; Magazine
From Locus Magazine's November 2009 Issue
An absorbing mix of problems and puzzles and conflicts, space battles and interrogations and negotiations, shot through with fresh takes on familiar tropes and themes. Cory Doctorow: Riding the WaveFriday 20 November 2009 | Magazine; Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's November Issue interview.
This mythological Edenic period in which all you do is write and the world ceases to hammer at your door never emerged, nor I think will it ever. I don't know what I would write about if I didn't have all this other stuff going on in my life. Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, NovemberThursday 12 November 2009 | Magazine; 2009 Posts
November New and Notable books, selected by Locus Magazine editors, include art books by James Gurney and Claus Brusen, anthologies by Ellen Datlow, Hartwell & Cramer, Peter Straub, and Gordon Van Gelder, and novels and collections by Margaret Atwood, Lester del Rey, Jonathan Lethem, and others.
Locus Magazine Bestsellers, NovemberThursday 12 November 2009 | Magazine; 2009 Posts
Locus Magazine Bestsellers are led by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson's The Winds of Dune, Patricia Briggs' Hunting Ground, Austen & Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and titles by Troy Denning and R.A. Salvatore.
Cory Doctorow: Teen SexFriday 6 November 2009 | Magazine; Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's November Issue.
There's really only one question: "Why have your characters done something that is likely to upset their parents, and why don't you punish them for doing this?" Now, the answer. November Issue Table of ContentsTuesday 3 November 2009 | Magazine
The November issue features interviews with Cory Doctorow and Jack Skillingstead, a new column by Cory Doctorow, "Teen Sex", a roundtable discussion on A.E. van Vogt, and reviews of new books by Peter Straub, Jeff VanderMeer, Alastair Reynolds, Patrick Ness, Terry Pratchett, Clive Barker, and many others.
Graham Sleight's Yesterday's Tomorrows: A. E. van VogtWednesday 28 October 2009 | Reviews; Magazine
From Locus Magazine's August 2009 Issue
One way of understanding van Vogt is by contrast with the early Heinlein, who was all rationalism and hardheadedness; van Vogt was transcendence and excitement at the expense of realism. Connie Willis: All ClearMonday 26 October 2009 | Magazine; Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's October Issue interview.
All the genres are tools. One of my pet rants for years has been the idea that there's no such thing as a good western, or romance, or any other form. But there is no genre that can't produce great art, and there is no genre so good that it can't produce garbage. David J. Schwartz: Cynics and BelieversSaturday 24 October 2009 | Magazine; Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's October Issue interview.
It's not that I'm a terribly religious or mystical person, but I am mystified by the world; the world is, in many aspects, incomprehensible to me. And that's the point of view I write from: this thing is something I cannot fully grasp, so I want to write around it and try and get a handle on it. Graham Sleight's Yesterday's Tomorrows: Hal ClementSunday 18 October 2009 | Reviews; Magazine
From Locus Magazine's October Issue
Hal Clement's work represents, in remarkably pure form, a particular tradition of writing SF. So to write about him is really to write about the strengths and weaknesses of that whole tradition... Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, OctoberSunday 18 October 2009 | Magazine; 2009 Posts
October New and Notable books, selected by Locus Magazine editors, include Iain M. Banks' Transition, Greg Egan's Oceanic, Robert Holdstock's Avilion, Jack Vance's This Is Me, Jack Vance!, and titles by Adams, Bacigalupi, Ballard, Hardinge, Kiernan, Martin & Dozois, McAuley, Paul, Skillingstead, Strahan, and VanderMeer & VanderMeer.
Locus Magazine Bestsellers, OctoberSunday 18 October 2009 | Magazine; 2009 Posts
Locus Magazine Bestsellers are led by David Weber's By Heresies Distressed, Charles Stross' Saturn's Children, Austen & Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and titles by William Leisner and R.A. Salvatore.
October Issue Table of ContentsWednesday 30 September 2009 | Magazine
The October issue features reports on the 67th World SF Convention, Anticipation, with WFSF Business Meeting results; interviews with Connie Willis and David J. Schwartz, reviews of new books by Jonathan Lethem, Kristin Cashore, Cory Doctorow, Robert Silverberg, and many others, plus Graham Sleight's "Yesterday's Tomorrows" column on Hal Clement.
John Clute: FantastikaSunday 27 September 2009 | Magazine; Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's September Issue interview.
Fantastika begins around the mid-18th century because time begins there, because history begins then, because the contemplation of Ruins and Futurity as a single topos begins then, because the world turns into a planet... Larry Niven: Tell Me a StoryWednesday 23 September 2009 | Magazine; Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's September Issue interview.
The Soviet Union was driven bankrupt by a plan evolved at my house in Tarzana, with Jerry Pournelle in charge. We called ourselves the Citizens' Advisory Council for a National Space Policy... Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, SeptemberThursday 10 September 2009 | Magazine; 2009 Posts
September New and Notable books, selected by Locus Magazine editors, include Patrick Ness' The Ask and the Answer, Kathleen Duey's Sacred Scars, Jack Vance's Wild Thyme and Green Magic, and other titles by Abercrombie, Abraham, Anderson, Baker, Bellairs, Brown, Kadrey, Rambo, Schroeder, and Stross.
Locus Magazine Bestsellers, SeptemberThursday 10 September 2009 | Magazine; 2009 Posts
Locus Magazine Bestsellers are led by Jacqueline Carey's Naamah's Kiss, Tanya Huff's Valor's Trial, Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and titles by Karen Traviss and Joseph Staten.
Forthcoming Books: Selected Titles, through June 2010Thursday 10 September 2009 | Resources
Selected titles from Locus Magazine's September issue listings are arranged here by month.
Cory Doctorow: Special PleadingFriday 4 September 2009 | Magazine; Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's September Issue.
I'd like to return Charles's volley. When your publisher hands you a straight line like that, you'd be nuts to pass it on. September Issue Table of ContentsMonday 31 August 2009 | Magazine
The September issue features tributes to the late Charles N. Brown, a new column by Cory Doctorow, interviews with Larry Niven and John Clute, listings of Forthcoming Books through June 2010, photos from the Hugo Awards ceremony, and reviews of new books by Paolo Bacigalupi, Ken Scholes, Greg Egan, Vanadana Singh, and many others.
History and Fantasy: A RoundtableFriday 28 August 2009 | Magazine; Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's August Issue roundtable.
Cecelia's idea of historical fiction is closer to science fiction, and Guy's idea is closer to fantasy... Mary Robinette Kowal: PuppetmasterThursday 27 August 2009 | Magazine; Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's August Issue interview.
One of the things that pulled me to both puppetry and writing speculative fiction is the world building. Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, AugustMonday 17 August 2009 | Magazine; 2009 Posts
August New and Notable books, selected by Locus Magazine editors, include Farah Mendlesohn's The Inter-Galactic Playground: A Critical Study of Children's and Teens' Science Fiction, Robert Charles Wilson's Julian Comstock, collections by Buckell, Dick, Silverberg, and Zelazny, anthologies by Dozois Strahan, and other titles by Booth, Langford, Micklem, Morrow & Evenson, Swanwick, and Williams.
Locus Magazine Bestsellers, AugustMonday 17 August 2009 | Magazine; 2009 Posts
Locus Magazine Bestsellers are led by Charlaine Harris' Dead and Gone, John Scalzi's Zoe's Tale, Brian Ruckley's Fall of Thanes, Alan Dead Foster's Star Trek, and Joseph Staten's Halo: Contact Harvest.
August Issue Table of ContentsWednesday 5 August 2009 | Magazine
The August issue features a report on the Science Fiction Awards Weekend in Seattle, results of this year's Locus Survey, an interview with Mary Robinette Kowal and a historical roundtable with Guy Gavriel Kay and Cecelia Holland, and an obituary of Locus co-founder and publisher Charles N. Brown. Also, reviews of new books by Kim Stanley Robinson & Jack Vance, Kage Baker, and others, plus Graham Sleight on A.E. van Vogt.
Tad Williams: Things Go Away, Things Come BackTuesday 28 July 2009 | Magazine; Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's July Issue interview.
I'm not afraid of complexity, and there are probably times when some readers just throw my books across the room. To them it feels like self-indulgence, and to me it's how I want to tell the story. Deborah Beale: The Arc of LifeTuesday 28 July 2009 | Magazine; Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's July Issue interview.
From the start, I didn't want to be a writer; I wanted to write, and there's a crucial difference. Locus Magazine Bestsellers, JulyMonday 13 July 2009 | Magazine; 2009 Posts
Locus Magazine Bestsellers are led by Jim Butcher's Turn Coat, Karen Chance's Curse the Dawn, Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and titles by Timothy Zahn and Nick Kyme & Lindsey Priestly.
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, JulyMonday 13 July 2009 | Magazine; 2009 Posts
July New and Notable books, selected by Locus Magazine editors, include John Crowley's Four Freedoms, William J. Burling's Kim Stanley Robinson Maps the Unimaginable, John Clute's Canary Fever: Reviews, China Miéville's The City & the City, and other titles by Adams, Anderson, Baxter, Cherryh, Datlow/Windling, Etchison, Gilman, Hartwell/Cramer, Hoffman, Lake, and Rucker.
Cory Doctorow: Cheap Facts and the Plausible PremiseSunday 5 July 2009 | Magazine; Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's July Issue.
The market for facts has crashed. That means that the two literatures — how-to and fiction — have effectively merged into one master story, the "plausible premise." July Issue Table of ContentsWednesday 1 July 2009 | Magazine
The July issue features Locus Awards winners and complete Locus Poll results, interviews with Tad Williams and Deborah Beale, a new column by Cory Doctorow, and reviews of new books by Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan, Daniel Abraham, Catherynne M. Valente, Dean Koontz, and many others.
Kay Kenyon: No ApologiesTuesday 30 June 2009 | Magazine; Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's June Issue interview.
Science fiction is always apologizing for itself. We have to stop that. Like Janis Ian said, SF is the jazz of literature. It takes delight in its topics and its narratives, and when we start talking about it having a purpose, it's like apologizing. Robert Charles Wilson: The Cosmic and the IntimateWednesday 24 June 2009 | Magazine; Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's June Issue interview.
It can be hard to address scientific or cosmological questions in a way that speaks to people who aren't immersed in science fiction or in the sciences. But that's a problem every writer has: who are you talking to? Who's your audience? The nice thing about the science fiction genre is we have an expansive space in which all these things can coexist. Gary K. Wolfe reviews Robert Charles WilsonWednesday 24 June 2009 | Reviews; Magazine
From Locus Magazine's May Issue, a review of Julian Comstock
A fascinating example of SF's ongoing negotiations with ideas of history and identity, and a good deal more complex than its faux-naif narrative voice and boys'-book adventure plotting would seem to suggest... Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, JuneMonday 22 June 2009 | Magazine; 2009 Posts
June New and Notable books, selected by Locus Magazine editors, include Michael Cobley's The Seed of Earth, Stephen Deas' The Adamantine Palace, Jo Graham's Hand of Isis, Gwyneth Jones' The Buonarotti Quartet, and other titles by Datlow, Gevers & Lake, Le Guin, Marr, Monette, Moorcock, Redick, Robins, Sawyer, Stross, and Williams.
Locus Magazine Bestsellers, JuneMonday 22 June 2009 | Magazine; 2009 Posts
Locus Magazine Bestsellers are led by David Weber's Storm from the Shadows, Jim Butcher's Small Favor, Iain M. Banks' Matter, and titles by Christopher L. Bennett and Tobias S. Buckell
June Issue Table of ContentsSaturday 23 May 2009 | Magazine
The June issue features Forthcoming Books through March 2010, interviews with Robert Charles Wilson and Kay Kenyon, coverage of the 2009 Nebula Awards Weekend, reviews of new books by Gene Wolfe, China Miéville, Charles Stross, Terry Bisson, Jay Lake, and others, and Graham Sleight's "Yesterday's Tomorrows" column on Octavia E. Butler.
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, MayWednesday 13 May 2009 | Magazine
May New and Notable books, selected by Locus Magazine editors, include Javier Calvo's Wonderful World, Christopher Miller's The Cardboard Universe, The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction, and other titles by Clare, de Lint, Furey, Hamilton, Hunt, Irvine, November, Priest, Schweitzer, Shepard, and Steele.
Locus Magazine Bestsellers, MayWednesday 13 May 2009 | Magazine
Locus Magazine Bestsellers are led by Patricia Briggs' Bone Crossed, Elizabeth Moon's Victory Conditions, Iain M. Banks' Matter, and titles by Reaves and Buckell.
May Issue Table of ContentsThursday 30 April 2009 | Magazine
A special Urban Fantasy issue includes interviews with Kim Harrison, Patricia Briggs, and Marjorie M. Liu, and commentary by Charlaine Harris, Kelley Armstrong, and others. Also: an obituary and appreciation of J.G. Ballard, and reviews of new books by Robert Charles Wilson, Greer Gilman, Peter S. Beagle, Roger Zelazny, Rudy Rucker, and many others.
Ekaterina Sedia: Secret HistoryWednesday 29 April 2009 | Perspectives/Interviews, Magazine
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's April Issue interview.
People say, 'There should be rules to magic.' Why? It's magic. I understand you shouldn't be able to do anything you want, necessarily, but it shouldn't be like the laws of physics laid on magic. Graham Joyce: Ghost WritingSaturday 25 April 2009 | Perspectives/Interviews, Magazine
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's April Issue interview.
I don't much buy into this idea that you should only write what you know. I always thought that as a writer it was part of your job to do exactly that. Empathy. Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, AprilWednesday 22 April 2009 | Monitor, Directories
April New and Notable books, selected by Locus Magazine editors, include Jane Frank's Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary, the first two volumes of The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny, Farah Mendlesohn's On Joanna Russ, and titles by Beagle, Berry, Holland, Kiernan, Mann, McDevitt, McDonald, Melko, Pratt, Scholes, Simmons, Sterling, and Valente.
Adrienne Martini reviews Adam RobertsWednesday 15 April 2009 | Reviews/Books, Magazine
From Locus Magazine's April issue, Adrienne Martini reviews Adam Roberts' latest novel Yellow Blue Tibia.
To answer the most obvious question first, "yellow blue tibia" is the English phrase that sounds like the Russian words for "I love you." By the end of Adam Roberts's Yellow Blue Tibia, it all makes sense. Or, at least, the title does. Stefan Dziemianowicz reviews Richard MathesonWednesday 15 April 2009 | Reviews/Books, Magazine
From Locus Magazine's February issue, Stefan Dziemianowicz reviews a tribute anthology to Richard Matheson edited by Christopher Conlon.
To the extent that Stephen King has acknowledged Matheson as the single most important influence on his own writing, you could say that contemporary horror publishing is one huge tribute volume to Matheson's impact on the field. Locus Magazine Bestsellers, AprilWednesday 8 April 2009 | Magazine/Bestsellers
Locus Magazine Bestsellers are led by Simon R. Green's Just Another Judgement Day, Charles Stross' The Atrocity Archives and The Jennifer Morgue, Matthew Stover's Star Wars: Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor, and Tobias S. Buckell's Halo: The Cole Protocol.
April Issue Table of ContentsWednesday 1 April 2009 | Magazine
The April issue of Locus Magazine features interviews with Graham Joyce and Ekaterina Sedia, an obituary and appreciations of Philip José Farmer, reviews of many current books, and Graham Sleight's "Yesterday's Tomorrows" colum about Frank Herbert's Dune.
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