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The June 2009 issue of Locus Magazine features:
T a b l e o f C o n t e n t s
June 2009 • Issue 581 • Vol. 62 No. 6
I N T E R V I E W S
Robert Charles Wilson: The Cosmic and the Intimate / 6
Kay Kenyon: No Apologies / 72
P E O P L E & P U B L I S H I N G
/ 8
Notes on milestones, awards, books sold, etc., with news this issue about Eric Flint, Cormac McCarthy, Terry Pratchett, Elizabeth Hand, Kim Harrison, Charlaine Harris, Jane Yolen & Midori Snyder, Robert J. Sawyer, and many others
M A I N S T O R I E S
/ 5 & 10
2009 Nebula Awards Weekend • MacLeod Wins Clarke • Ness and Shawl Win Tiptree • Sturgeon Award Finalists • Amazon Expands Again • Google Search Settlement Suspect
T H E D A T A F I L E
/ 11
Spectra Switches • Norton Lawsuit Finally Ends • Salmon of Doubt on the Radio • Heinlein Prize Trust Winner • Harlequin Teen • Source Interlink Goes Private • B&N Launches Audiobook Store • Worldcons News • Announcements • Book News • Awards News • Magazine News • Publishing News • Financial News • International Rights
F O R T H C O M I N G B O O K S
US Forthcoming Books / 36
British Forthcoming Books / 46
L I S T I N G S
Magazines Received: April / 52
Books Received: April / 53
British Books Received: March / 62 Bestsellers / 64
O B I T U A R I E S
/ 69
Tom Deitz • Appreciation by Brad Strickland • Jack Owen Jardine • Hans Holzer • Jonathan Bayliss • A. Langley Searles • Appreciation of Ken Rand by Kevin J. Anderson • Forrest J Ackerman Memorial by John De Chancie (Page 9)
L O C U S L E T T E R S
/ 70
David G. Hartwell
E D I T O R I A L M A T T E R S
/ 71
Locus Family News • Barbecue • Visitors • Books • Subterranean Press • Subscription Rates • This Issue • Looking Ahead
L O C U S L O O K S A T B O O K S
Gardnerspace: Short Fiction Column by Gardner Dozois
/ 13
F&SF 6-7/09; Asimov’s 6/09; Analog 1-2/09; Lone Star Stories 2/09; Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show 3/09; The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny: Volume One: Threshold, Roger Zelazny; The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny: Volume Two: Power & Light, Roger Zelazny; The Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson: Volume 1: Call Me Joe, Poul Anderson; The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet, Vandana Singh.
Short Fiction Reviews by Richard Horton
/ 15
This Is the Summer of Love: Postscripts #18, Peter Crowther & Nick Gevers, eds.; F&SF 6-7/09; Analog 6/09; Asimov’s 6/09; Interzone 3-4/09; Black Gate Spring ’09; Beneath Ceaseless Skies 4/9/09; Beneath Ceaseless Skies 4/23/09; Tor.com 3/09; Tor.com 4/09; Farrago’s Wainscot 4/09; Subterranean Winter ’09, Spring ’09; Everland and Other Stories, Paul Witcover; New Ceres Nights, Alisa Krasnostein & Tehani Wessely, eds.; The New Yorker 4/23/09.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe
/ 17
The Best of Gene Wolfe, Gene Wolfe; Firebirds Soaring: An Anthology of Original Speculative Fiction, Sharyn November, ed.; Canary Fever: Reviews, John Clute; SHORT TAKE: The Fire in the Stone: Prehistoric Fiction from Charles Darwin to Jean M. Auel, Nicholas Ruddick.
Reviews by Faren Miller
/ 21
The City & The City, China Miéville; In Ashes Lie, Marie Brennan; Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson; Best Served Cold, Joe Abercrombie; Green, Jay Lake; SHORT TAKES: The Good Humor Man, Andrew Fox; Centuries Ago and Very Fast, Rebecca Ore.
Reviews by Russell Letson
/ 23
Wireless, Charles Stross; David Falkayn: Star Trader, Poul Anderson; Conspirator, C.J. Cherryh.
Reviews by Adrienne Martini / 25
The Vorkosigan Companion, Lillian Stewart Carl & John Helfers, eds.; Steal Across the Sky, Nancy Kress; Monster, A. Lee Martinez; Planet of Mystery, Terry Bisson; Billy’s Book, Terry Bisson; Norse Code, Greg van Eekhout; Green, Jay Lake.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman
/ 23
The Shadow Queen, Anne Bishop; New Blood, Gail Dayton; Faery Moon, P.R. Frost; Some Girls Bite, Chloe Neill; Bloodhound, Tamora Pierce; The Magic Thief: Lost, Sarah Prineas; The Farwalker’s Quest, Joni Sensel; Storm Glass, Maria V. Snyder; Thirteenth Child, Patricia C. Wrede.
Yesterday's Tomorrows: Graham Sleight
/ 29
Bloodchild and Other Stories, Octavia E. Butler; Patternmaster, Octavia E. Butler; Kindred, Octavia E. Butler; Dawn, Octavia E. Butler.
Reviews by Divers Hands: Richard A. Lupoff, Stefan Dziemianowicz, & Amelia Beamer
/ 31
From the Pen of Paul: The Fantastic Images of Frank R. Paul, Frank R. Paul; The Big Book of Necon, Bob Booth, ed.; Powers: Secret Histories: A Bibliography, John Berlyne, ed.
Terry Bisson: This Month in History
/
15, 17, 21, 25
Books reviewed in this issue, listed by author (indicating reviewer) — Abercrombie, Joe • Best Served Cold (Faren Miller) Abercrombie, Joe • Best Served Cold (Faren Miller) Anderson, Poul • The Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson, Volume 1: Call Me Joe (Gardner Dozois) Anderson, Poul • David Falkayn: Star Trader (Russell Letson) Berlyne, John • Powers: Secret Histories: A Bibliography (Amelia Beamer) Bishop, Anne • The Shadow Queen (Carolyn Cushman) Bisson, Terry • Billy's Book (Adrienne Martini) Bisson, Terry • Planet of Mystery (Adrienne Martini) Booth, Bob • The Big Book of Necon (Stefan Dziemianowicz) Brennan, Marie • In Ashes Lie (Faren Miller) Butler, Octavia E. • Bloodchild and Other Stories (Graham Sleight) Butler, Octavia E. • Dawn (Graham Sleight) Butler, Octavia E. • Kindred (Graham Sleight) Butler, Octavia E. • Patternmaster (Graham Sleight) Carl, Lillian Stewart, & Martin H. Greenberg • The Vorkosigan Companion: The Universe of Lois McMaster Bujold (Adrienne Martini) Cherryh, C. J. • Conspirator (Russell Letson) Clute, John • Canary Fever: Reviews (Gary K. Wolfe) Crowther, Peter, & Nick Gevers, eds. • This is the Summer of Love: Postscripts #18 (Rich Horton) Dayton, Gail • New Blood (Carolyn Cushman) Fox, Andrew • The Good Humor Man, Or, Calorie 3501 (Faren Miller) Frost, P. R. • Faery Moon (Carolyn Cushman) Krasnostein, Alisa, & Tehani Wessely, eds. • New Ceres Nights (Rich Horton) Kress, Nancy • Steal Across the Sky (Adrienne Martini) Lake, Jay • Green (Adrienne Martini) Lake, Jay • Green (Faren Miller) Martinez, A. Lee • Monster (Adrienne Martini) Miéville, China • The City & the City (Faren Miller) Miéville, China • The City & the City (Faren Miller) Neill, Chloe • Some Girls Bite (Carolyn Cushman) November, Sharyn, ed. • Firebirds Soaring (Gary K. Wolfe) Ore, Rebecca • Centuries Ago and Very Fast (Faren Miller) Paul, Frank R. • From the Pen of Paul: The Fantastic Images of Frank R. Paul (Richard A. Lupoff) Pierce, Tamora • Bloodhound (Carolyn Cushman) Prineas, Sarah • The Magic Thief: Lost (Carolyn Cushman) Ruddick, Nicholas • The Fire in the Stone: Prehistoric Fiction from Charles Darwin to Jean M. Auel (Gary K. Wolfe) Sanderson, Brandon • Warbreaker (Faren Miller) Sensel, Joni • The Farwalker's Quest (Carolyn Cushman) Singh, Vandana • The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet (Gardner Dozois) Snyder, Maria V. • Storm Glass (Carolyn Cushman) Stross, Charles • Wireless (Russell Letson) van Eekhout, Greg • Norse Code (Adrienne Martini) Witcover, Paul • Everland and Other Stories (Rich Horton) Wolfe, Gene • The Best of Gene Wolfe (Gary K. Wolfe) Wrede, Patricia C. • Thirteenth Child (Carolyn Cushman) Zelazny, Roger • The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny, Volume 1: Threshold (Gardner Dozois) Zelazny, Roger • The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny, Volume 2: Power & Light (Gardner Dozois) |
June 2009 Issue
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