Table of Contents, April 1991

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Table of Contents
A c e ………………………………………… 2,28
Avon…………………………………………..14
Baen ………………………………………… 10
Bantam ……………………………… 30,31
Bridge ……………………………………… 68
Classifieds……………………………….. 51
PHOTO CREDITS: (BG) Beth Gwinn, (CNB) C. N. Brown, (SRC) Shelly Rae Clift, (F) furnished, (JJ) Jane Jewell,
(NKH) Nina Kiriki Hoffman, (NLW) N. Lee Wood, (RA) R. Audemard, (CP) Christine Poutout, (SM) Shinji Maki, (NM)
Noriko Maki, (RD) Roberto de Sousa Causo, (GL) Gerson Lodi-Rubeiro.
ISSUE #363, VOL 26 NO. 4, April 1991, Mailing Date: March 27,1991
LOCUS April 1991/3
MAIN STORIES
Avon Celebrates 50 Y e a rs …………………………………..4
1990 B estsellers…………………………………………………..6
Merril Library R eprieved…………………………………… 6
Hugo Nominations Ballots…………………………………..6
Waldenbooks Club Reaches 3.7 Million ……………. 6
Star Wars Sequels…………………………………………………6
Crook Award Nominations ……………………………….. 7
ConFrancisco Expands………………………………………..7
SF Encyclopedia Update Postponed …………………. 7
THE DATA FILE
Cyberbooks Coming……………………………………………. 7
Publishing News………………………………………………….. 7
Bookstore News………………………………………………….. 7
Court Cases ……………………………………………………… 58
Awards …………………………………………………………….. 58
Magazine News …………………………………………………58
Announcements………………………………………………… 59
SF/Fantasy T h ea te r……………………………………………59
Rights & Options……………………………………………….59
Audio News ……………………………………………………… 59
Publications Received………………………………………. 59
Catalogs Received……………………………………………..59
INTERVIEWS
Ben Bova: Living in an SF W o rld ………………………. 4
Gordon R. Dickson: Mountains A h e ad ……………… 5
SPECIAL FEATURES
British Book Summary: 1990 ……………………………… 6
Locus Index: 1990 …………………………………………….. 61
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People & Publishing ……………………………………………8
Agent’s Corner, Richard Curtis ………………………. 11
Moons & Stars & Stuff, Fritz Leiber ……………….. 13
Editorial M a tte rs……………………………………………….56
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Reviews by Faren Miller: …………………………………. 15
Xenocide, Orson Scott Card; Sexual Chemistry,
Brian M. Stableford; When the Music’s Over,
Lewis Shiner, ed.; Ecce and Old Earth, Jack
Vance; Outside the Dog Musuem, Jonathan
Carroll; Another Way to Travel, Cats Laughing

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Reviews by Russell Letson: ……………………………… 17
Full Spectrum 3, Lou Aronica, Amy Stout, &
Betsy Mitchell, eds.; Future on Fire, Orson Scott
Card, ed.; Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF
Stories #22 (1960), Isaac Asimov & Martin H.
Greenberg, eds..
Reviews by Dan Chow:……………………………………… 19
Science-Fiction: The Early Years, Everett F.
Bleiler; Life on the Moon in 1768: Ten Fantasy
Engravings of the 18th Century, Filippo
Morghen; The Im m o rta l Sto rm , Sam
Moskowitz; Death Qualified: A Mystery of
Chaos, Kate Wilhelm; Young Bleys, Gordon R.
Dickson.
Reviews by Edward Bryant:……………………………… 21
The Exile Kiss, George Alec Effinger; Dusk,
Ron Dee; Clive Barker, Illustrator, Clive
Barker & Fred Burke; Obsessions, Gary Raisor,
ed.
Reviews by Carolyn Cushman: ………………………… 23
Blood Price, Tanya Huff; The Sorceress and the
Cygnet, Patricia A. McKillip; Spirit Crossings,
Claudia A Peck; The Initiate Brother, Sean
Russell. SHORT TAKES: Ara’s Field, Laurie J.
Marks; TekLords, William Shatner; The Magic
of Reduce, L. E. Modesitt, Jr.; A Call to Arms,
Alan Dean Foster.
Reviews by Tom Whitmore: ……………………………. 25
The Dark Between the Stars, Frank M. Robinson;
The Exile Kiss, George Alec Effinger; The
Sorceress and the Cygnet, Patricia A. McKillip;
The Seeress of Kell, David Eddings; The Illegal
Rebirth of Billy the Kid, Rebecca Ore; The
Magic of Reduce, L. E. Modesitt, Jr.; Dragon
Cauldron, Laurence Yep. SHORT TAKES: A
Day with Wilbur Robinson, William Joyce.
Short Reviews by Scott Winnett: ……………………..27
Beggars in Spain, Nancy Kress; Blind Justice,
S. N. Lewitt; Generation Warriors, Anne
McCaffrey & Elizabeth Moon; Chung Kuo
Book 2: The Broken Wheel, David Wingrove;
Cyrus Cyrus, Adam Zameenzad; IASFM 4/91;
Worlds o f Wonder

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Art Reviews by Paul S. Clift:……………………………. 29
Expedition: being an account in words and
artwork of the 2538 AD. voyage to Darwin IV,
Wayne Douglas Barlowe; In the Stream of
Stars: The Soviet/American Space Art Book,
William K. Hartman, Andrei Sokolov, Ron
Miller, & Vitaly Myagkov; Mark Harrison’s
Dreamlands, Mark Harrison; Fantasy Collection
Set I, Jeffrey Jones; Fantasy Collection,
Stephen Fabian.
INTERNATIONAL SF
SF in China………………………………………………………..32
SF in Australia…………………………………………………..32
SF in France……………………………………………………… 33
SF in Japan ……………………………………………………… 34
SF in Brazil……………………………………………………….. 35
SF in the Soviet U n io n …………………………………….. 36
LISTINGS
International Books & Magazines Received…….. 37
Magazines Received—F e b ru a ry ………………………. 39
Books Received—February………………………………40
British Books—January …………………………………… 48
Bestsellers ……………………………………………………….. 55
OBITUARIES
W. Howard B ak e r…………………………………………….. 56
Henry Steeger III………………………………………………. 56
Chad Walsh ……………………………………………………… 56
Harry Shorten ………………………………………………….. 56
Norbert W. Cowan………………………………………….. 56
INDEX TO ADS
Del R e y ……………………………………. 12
Robert G avora…………………………..43
Donald M. G ra n t………………………42
HBJ/Jane Yolen B o o k s …………… 22
Locus ……………………………………… 67
Locus Press …………… 53,54,57,66
Morrigan …………………………………. 50
Murder One ………………………………41
Roc ……………………………………. insert
SF Nexus …………………………………. 49
T o r ……………………………………… 20,24
Warner………………………………………26
Gordon R. Dickson ………….(BG) 1
Ben Bova……………………… (CNB) 1
Ben Bova……………………… (CNB) 4
Mark Gompertz, Liz Perl,
Carolyn Reidy, Bob Mecoy,
John H u b e r………………..(SRC) 4
Gordon R. Dickson ………….(BG) 5
Michael Bishop ………………..(BG) 8
Anne McCaffrey………………..(BG) 8
Raymond Z. Gallun ……………..(F) 8
Alan Dean Foster…………. (SRC) 9
PHOTO LISTING
John Maddox Roberts …….. (JJ) 9
Ashley McConnell ……………… (F) 9
William F. Woo,
William F. W u ……………………. (F) 8
Pulphouse Gang …………. (NKH) 9
Fritz Leiber……………………….. (F) 13
Francis Berthelot………. (NLW) 33
Jacques Goimard ………….(RA) 33
Gerard Klein…………………… (CP) 33
Makoto Shiina ………………..(SM) 34
Shinji Maki,
Takumi Shibano…………… (NM) 34
Naoyuki Kato,
Hisashi Kuroma …………. (NM) 34
Orson Scott C a rd …………. (RD) 35
Ivan Carlos Regina, Henrique
Villabor Flory, Roberto de Sousa
Causo, Jose Carlos Neves (GL) 35
Orson Scott Card, Ivan Carlos
Regina, R.C. Nascimento (RD) 35
Brazilian audience ………… (GL) 35