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The December 2009 issue of Locus Magazine features:
T a b l e o f C o n t e n t s
December 2009 • Issue 587 • Vol. 63 No. 6
I N T E R V I E W S
Michael Dirda: Dashing International Man of Mystery
and Sophisticated Boulevardier / 6
Nina Kiriki Hoffman: Young at Heart / 76
M A I N S T O R I E S
/ 5 & 10
World Fantasy Awards Winners • Sci Fi Wire Cancels Columns • Amazon’s Best of 2009 • 200 Waldenbooks to Close • PW’s Best Books of 2009
W O R L D F A N T A S Y C O N V E N T I O N
/ 5
World Fantasy Convention
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 Joe Haldeman, Harlan Ellison, Dean Koontz, Charlaine Harris, Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Michael Moorcock, and many others
T H E D A T A F I L E
/ 11
Google Books Settlement Revision • Clarion Datamancer Keyboard Project • Parallel Import Decision • E-Reader Round-Up • Book View Cafe • E-book News • Expresso Expansion • Teen Reading Survey • Announcements • Publishing News • Potter News • Book News • Bookstore News • Contest News • Worldcons News • Awards News • Financial News • Foreign Rights • Other Rights
F O R T H C O M I N G B O O K S
US Forthcoming Books / 32
British Forthcoming Books / 48
L I S T I N G S
Magazines Received: October / 52
Books Received: October / 53
British Books Received: September / 64 Bestsellers / 66
L O C U S L E T T E R S
/ 73
Dean Koontz • Phil Harbottle • Lou Anders • Dennis Lien • Jonathan Strahan
O B I T U A R I E S
/ 74
Louise Cooper • Don Ivan Punchatz • Dean Ellis • Death Reported: Herbert A. Goldstone • Appreciation for Ben Indick by Barry N. Malzberg
E D I T O R I A L M A T T E R S
/ 75
World Fantasy Convention • Cakes • E-books • Visitors • This Issue/Next Issue
L O C U S L O O K S A T B O O K S
Gardnerspace: Short Fiction Column by Gardner Dozois
/ 12
F&SF 12/09; Asimov’s 10-11/09; Subterranean Summer ’09; Tor.com; The Push, David Hutchinson.
Short Fiction Reviews by Richard Horton
/ 13
Lovecraft Unbound, Ellen Datlow, ed.; Eclipse Three, Jonathan Strahan, ed.; Sky Whales and Other Wonders, Vera Nazarian, ed.; F&SF 12/09; Postscripts #19, Peter Crowther, ed.; Ars Memoriae, Beth Bernobich; Shadow Unit 2.06.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe
/ 15
The Devil’s Alphabet, Daryl Gregory; The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood; Transition, Iain M. Banks; SHORT TAKE: The Martian Chronicles: The Complete Edition, Ray Bradbury.
Reviews by Faren Miller
/ 17
Unseen Academicals, Terry Pratchett; In Great Waters, Kit Whitfield; Avilion, Robert Holdstock; Heart’s Blood, Judith Marillier; By the Mountain Bound, Elizabeth Bear.
Reviews by Russell Letson
/ 19
Time Travelers Never Die, Jack McDevitt.
Reviews by Adrienne Martini / 21
Lifelode, Jo Walton; Transition, Iain M. Banks; Not Less Than Gods, Kage Baker; Eclipse Three, Jonathan Strahan, ed.
Reviews by Stefan Dziemianowicz / 23
Mister Slaughter, Robert McCammon; R.I.P., Terry Lamsley; The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One, Ellen Datlow, ed.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman
/ 25
Going Bovine, Libba Bray; Child of Fire, Harry Connolly; The Runaway Dragon, Kate Coombs; The Shifter, Janice Hardy; Nice Girls Don’t Date Dead Men, Molly Harper; Once a Witch, Carolyn MacCullough; Bride of Tranquility, Tracy S. Morris; Doppelgangster, Laura Resnick; The Blue Shoe, Roderick Townley; Fables: Peter & Max, Bill Willingham.
Yesterday's Tomorrows: Graham Sleight
/ 27
Galaxies Like Grains of Sand, Brian Aldiss; Non-Stop, Brian W. Aldiss; Hothouse, Brian W. Aldiss; Barefoot in the Head: A European Fantasia, Brian W. Aldiss; Best SF Stories, Brian W. Aldiss; Helliconia, Brian Aldiss.
Terry Bisson: This Month in History
/
13, 15, 19, 21
Books reviewed in this issue, listed by author (indicating reviewer) — Aldiss, Brian W. • Barefoot in the Head: A European Fantasia (Graham Sleight) Aldiss, Brian W. • Best Science Fiction Stories of Brian W. Aldiss (Graham Sleight) Aldiss, Brian W. • Galaxies Like Grains of Sand (Graham Sleight) Aldiss, Brian W. • Helliconia (Graham Sleight) Aldiss, Brian W. • Hothouse (Graham Sleight) Aldiss, Brian W. • Non-Stop (Graham Sleight) Atwood, Margaret • The Year of the Flood (Gary K. Wolfe) Baker, Kage • Not Less than Gods (Adrienne Martini) Banks, Iain M. • Transition (Adrienne Martini) Banks, Iain M. • Transition (Gary K. Wolfe) Bear, Elizabeth • By the Mountain Bound (Faren Miller) Bernobich, Beth • Ars Memoriae (Rich Horton) Bradbury, Ray • The Martian Chronicles: The Complete Edition (Gary K. Wolfe) Bray, Libba • Going Bovine (Carolyn Cushman) Connolly, Harry • Child of Fire (Carolyn Cushman) Coombs, Kate • The Runaway Dragon (Carolyn Cushman) Crowther, Peter, ed. • Postscripts #19 (Rich Horton) Datlow, Ellen, ed. • The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One (Stefan Dziemianowicz) Datlow, Ellen, ed. • Lovecraft Unbound (Rich Horton) Gregory, Daryl • The Devil's Alphabet (Gary K. Wolfe) Hardy, Janice • The Shifter (Carolyn Cushman) Harper, Molly • Nice Girls Don't Date Dead Men (Carolyn Cushman) Holdstock, Robert • Avilion (Faren Miller) Hutchinson, David • The Push (Gardner Dozois) Lamsley, Terry • R. I. P. (Stefan Dziemianowicz) MacCullough, Carolyn • Once a Witch (Carolyn Cushman) Marillier, Juliet • Heart's Blood (Faren Miller) Marillier, Juliet • Heart's Blood (Faren Miller) McCammon, Robert • Mister Slaughter (Stefan Dziemianowicz) McDevitt, Jack • Time Travelers Never Die (Russell Letson) Morris, Tracy S. • Bride of Tranquility (Carolyn Cushman) Nazarian, Vera, ed. • Sky Whales and Other Wonders (Rich Horton) Pratchett, Terry • Unseen Academicals (Faren Miller) Resnick, Laura • Doppelgangster (Carolyn Cushman) Strahan, Jonathan, ed. • Eclipse Three (Adrienne Martini) Strahan, Jonathan, ed. • Eclipse Three (Rich Horton) Townley, Roderick • The Blue Shoe (Carolyn Cushman) Walton, Jo • Lifelode (Adrienne Martini) Whitfield, Kit • In Great Waters (Faren Miller) Willingham, Bill • Fables: Peter & Max (Carolyn Cushman) |
December 2009 Issue
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