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The July 2009 issue of Locus Magazine features:
T a b l e o f C o n t e n t s
July 2009 • Issue 582 • Vol. 63 No. 1
I N T E R V I E W S
Tad Williams: Things Go Away, Things Come Back / 6
Deborah Beale: The Arc of Life / 7 Tad Williams & Deborah Beale: Our ExtraOrdinary Farm /
M A I N S T O R I E S
/ 5 & 10
2009 Locus Awards Winners • David Eddings (1931-2009) • 2009 Campbell Award Finalists • 2008 Stoker Awards Winners • Doctorow Publishing Experiment
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 Isaac Asimov, Terry Pratchett, Paul Melko, Larry Niven & Steven Barnes, Philip José Farmer, Joe Haldeman, George R.R. Martin, and many others
T H E D A T A F I L E
/ 10
UC Riverside Position Withdrawn • Magazine Closures • Be-Bop Ban • Tolkien Lawsuit Moves Forward • 979 Is Coming • Fewer Real Books, More POD • BookExpo America 2009 • Awards News • Worldcons News • Book News • Publications Received • Catalogues Received
C O M M E N T A R Y
/ 29
Cory Doctorow: Cheap Facts and the Plausible Premise
I N T E R N A T I O N A L R E P O R T S F R O M C O L O M B I A A N D C H I N A
Encuentro Fractal ’09 by John Kessel & James Patrick Kelly / 30
My China Visit by Jay Lake / 31
C O N V E N T I O N
Wiscon / 33
L O C U S P O L L
/ 34
L I S T I N G S
Magazines Received: May / 42
Books Received: May / 43
British Books Received: April / 52 Bestsellers / 44
E D I T O R I A L M A T T E R S
/ 59
Quiet June • Books • Hail & Farewell • This Issue • Upcoming
O B I T U A R I E S
/ 61
David Eddings • Appreciations by Kuo-Yu Liang and Jaime Levine • Bette Farmer • Robert Louit • James Kirkup • Kaoru Kurimoto • Abigail Frost • Paul O. Williams
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
The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume Three, George Mann, ed.; Clockwork Phoenix 2, Mike Allen, ed.; Strange Horizons 1/09; Strange Horizons 2/09; Strange Horizons 3/09; Abyss & Apex 1stQ 2009; Abyss & Apex 2ndQ 2009; Interzone 3-4/09; The New Yorker 5/4/09.
Short Fiction Reviews by Richard Horton
/ 15
Analog 7-8/09; Asimov’s 7/09; Strange Horizons 5/09; On Spec Spring ’09; Abyss & Apex 2ndQ 2009; Kaleidotrope 4/09; Fantasy Magazine 6/09; Fantasy Magazine 7/09; Beneath Ceaseless Skies 5/21/09; The Women of Nell Gwynne’s, Kage Baker; Clockwork Phoenix 2, Mike Allen, ed.; Firebirds Soaring, Sharyn November, ed.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe
/ 17
The New Space Opera 2, Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan, eds.; Vacancy & Ariel, Lucius Shepard; Wonderful World, Javier Calvo; The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction, Mark Bould, Andrew M. Butler, Adam Roberts, & Sherryl Vint, eds.
Reviews by Faren Miller
/ 19
The Price of Spring, Daniel Abraham; Kings and Assassins, Lane Robins; Wildfire, Sarah Micklem; The Painting and the City, Robert Freeman Wexler; The Magicians, Lev Grossman.
Reviews by Paul Witcover
/ 23
Palimpsest, Catherynne M. Valente; Three Unbroken, Chris Roberson; Steal Across the Sky, Nancy Kress; The Reality Dysfunction, Peter F. Hamilton; Black Glass, John Shirley.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman
/ 25
Diamond Star, Catherine Asaro; Darkwood, M.E. Breen; Rift in the Sky, Julie E. Czerneda; Strange Brew, P.N. Elrod; Dead if I Do, Tate Hallaway; Skin Trade, Laurell K. Hamilton; The Little Secret, Kate Saunders; Stone Voice Rising, C. Lee Tocci.
Reviews by Divers Hands: Stefan Dziemianowicz & Rich Horton
/ 27
Relentless, Dean Koontz; The Witnesses Are Gone, Joel Lane; Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd, Holly Black & Cecil Castellucci, eds.; Philippine Speculative Fiction IV, Dean Francis Alfar & Nikki Alfar, eds.; A Time for Dragons, Vincent Michael Simbulan, ed.
Terry Bisson: This Month in History
/
15, 19, 23, 25
Books reviewed in this issue, listed by author (indicating reviewer) — Abraham, Daniel • The Price of Spring (Faren Miller) Alfar, Dean Francis, & Nikki Alfar, eds. • Philippine Speculative Fiction IV (Rich Horton) Allen, Mike, ed. • Clockwork Phoenix 2: More Tales of Beauty and Strangeness (Gardner Dozois) Allen, Mike, ed. • Clockwork Phoenix 2: More Tales of Beauty and Strangeness (Rich Horton) Asaro, Catherine • Diamond Star (Carolyn Cushman) Baker, Kage • The Women of Nell Gwynne's (Rich Horton) Black, Holly, & Cecil Castellucci, eds. • Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd (Rich Horton) Bould, Mark, & Andrew M. Butler, Adam Roberts & Sherryl Vint, eds. • The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction (Gary K. Wolfe) Breen, M. E. • Darkwood (Carolyn Cushman) Calvo, Javier • Wonderful World (Gary K. Wolfe) Czerneda, Julie E. • Rift in the Sky (Carolyn Cushman) Dozois, Gardner, & Jonathan Strahan, eds. • The New Space Opera 2 (Gary K. Wolfe) Elrod, P. N., ed. • Strange Brew (Carolyn Cushman) Grossman, Lev • The Magicians (Faren Miller) Hallaway, Tate • Dead If I Do (Carolyn Cushman) Hamilton, Laurell K. • Skin Trade (Carolyn Cushman) Hamilton, Peter F. • The Reality Dysfunction (Paul Witcover) Koontz, Dean • Relentless (Stefan Dziemianowicz) Kress, Nancy • Steal Across the Sky (Paul Witcover) Lane, Joel • The Witnesses are Gone (Stefan Dziemianowicz) Mann, George, ed. • The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume Three (Gardner Dozois) Micklem, Sarah • Wildfire (Faren Miller) November, Sharyn, ed. • Firebirds Soaring (Rich Horton) Roberson, Chris • Three Unbroken (Paul Witcover) Robins, Lane • Kings and Assassins (Faren Miller) Saunders, Kate • The Little Secret (Carolyn Cushman) Shepard, Lucius • Vacancy & Ariel (Gary K. Wolfe) Shirley, John • Black Glass (Paul Witcover) Simbulan, Vincent Michael, ed. • A Time for Dragons (Rich Horton) Tocci, C. Lee • Stone Voice Rising (Carolyn Cushman) Valente, Catherynne M. • Palimpsest (Paul Witcover) Wexler, Robert Freeman • The Painting and the City (Faren Miller) |
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