Table of Contents, October 1992
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THE NEWSPAPER OF THE SCIENCE FICTION FIELD
(ISSN-0047-4959)
EDITOR & PUBLISHER
Charles N. Brown
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Faren C. Miller
ASSISTANT EDITORS
Marianne S. Jablon
Carolyn F. Cushman
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
Dorothy A. Taylor
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Edward Bryant
Dan Chow
Mark R. Kelly
Russell Letson
Tom Maddox
Scott Winnett
Gary K. Wolfe
SPECIAL PROJECTS
William G. Contento
CON REPORTERS
Beth Gwinn
Jane Jewell
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Science Fiction Field, is published monthly by LOCUS
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Table of Contents
MAIN STORIES
Fritz Leiber 1910-1992 …………………………………. 4
1992 Hugo Awards Winners………………………….6
MagiCon: 1992 World Science
Fiction Convention………………………………….. 6
Science Fiction Age Launched………………………..7
Lewis “Hoax” Goes On and On…………………….. 7
1991 Chesley Awards Winners………………………7
Pulphouse Slows Production………………………….8
Quantum Quits……………………………………………..8
Hubbard Contest Awards $4000 Prizes…………..8
Clarion West……………………………………………….11
THE DATA FILE
Publishing News……………………………………………8
Bookstore News……………………………………………8
Artists’ Market……………………………………………..8
Rushdie Update…………………………………………. 73
Awards News………………………………………………73
Book News………………………………………………….73
Convention Correction………………………………..73
Court Cases………………………………………………..73
Announcements………………………………………….73
SPECIAL FEATURES
Complete Hugo Voting………………………………..42
1992 Hugo Awards Ceremony…………………….. 44
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People & Publishing…………………………………….. 9
Reports from the Electronic Frontier,
by Tom Maddox……………………………………… 17
Locus Letters………………………………………………67
Editorial Matters………………………………………… 67
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Distillations: Short Fiction Reviews
by Mark R. Kelly:……………………………………. 13
Interzone 8/92; Interzone 9/92; F&SF 9/92; F&SF
10-11/92; Omni Best Science Fiction One, Ellen
Datlow, ed.; Omni 9/92; Pulphouse: A Fiction
Magazine #118/92, Amazing 10/92; Playboy 9/92.
Reviews by Faren Miller……………………………..19
Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson; The Maerlinde
Chronicles, a.k.a. In the Mothers’ Land, Elisabeth
Vonarburg; The Sons of Noah & Other Stories,
Jack Cady; Strange Devices of the Sun and Moon,
Lisa Goldstein; Chronicles of the King’s Tramp
#3: The Last Human, Tom De Haven; SHORT
TAKES: The Gates of Noon, Michael Scott
Rohan; The Way to Babylon, Paul Kearney; The
Small Bang, Jack Fenno.
Reviews by Edward Bryant:………………………….23
Gone South, Robert R. McCammon; Death’s
Door, John Wooley and Ron Wolfe; Afterimage,
Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Kevin J. Anderson;
Summer Sketches, Dan Simmons; SHORT
TAKES: Cold Turkey, Nancy A. Collins; Candles
on the Pond, Sue Ellen Sloca; Still Dead, John
Skipp and Craig Spector, eds.
Reviews by Russell Letson:………………………….27
A Million Open Doors, John Barnes; The Quicksilver
Screen, Don H. DeBrandt; What Might
Have Been? Volume 4: Alternate Americas, Gregory
Benford and Martin H. Greenberg, eds.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe:…………………………..31
The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume
One: Secret Sharers, a.k.a. The Collected
Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume One: Pluto
in the Morning Light and The Collected Stories
of Robert Silverberg, Volume Two: The Secret
Sharer, Robert Silverberg; Speaking in Tongues,
Ian McDonald; Mirror to the Sky , Mark S. Geston;
A Deeper Sea, Alexander Jablokov; Resurrection,
Katharine Kerr.
Reviews by Dan Chow:……………………………….. 35
Mirror to the Sky, Mark S. Geston; Aestival Tide,
Elizabeth Hand; Quarantine, Greg Egan; Odyssey:
The Authorised Biography of Arthur C.
Clarke, a.k.a. Arthur C. Clarke: The Authorized
Biography, Neil McAleer.
Reviews by Carolyn Cushman:……………………..37
Mostly Harmless, Douglas Adams; The
Outskirter’s Secret, Rosemary Kirstein; Shadow-
Maze, Jonathan Wylie; Gatherer of Clouds, Sean
Russell; SHORT TAKES: Child of the Phoenix,
Barbara Erskine; The Emancipator, Book 3: The
Orpheus Machine, Ray Aldridge; Castle Spellbound,
John DeChancie; All Hallow’s Eve: Tales
of Love and the Supernatural, Mary Elizabeth
Allen, ed.; Ardent Apparitions, Ellen Fitzgerald.
Short Reviews by Scott Winnett: ………………….39
Mrs. Vargas and the Dead Naturalist, Kathleen
Alcala; Conglomeros, Jesse Browner; Doctor
Watson and the Invisible Man, Noel Downing;
668: The Neighbor of the Beast, Lionel Fenn;
Gregory, Maw, and the Mean One, David Gifaldi;
Negrophobia, Darius James; A Little Time in
Texas, Joan Johnston; Winds of Change,
Mercedes Lackey; Lady of the Forest, Jennifer
Roberson; Moonrunner. Under the Shadow, Jane
Toombs; The Guns of the South, Harry Turtledove;
Amazon, Barbara G. Walker, Briar Rose,
Jane Yolen.
CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES
Magicon: 1992 World Science
Fiction Convention……………………………………6
LISTINGS
Magazines Received – August……………………….46
Books Received — August………………………….. 47
British Books – July……………………………………..59
Bestsellers………………………………………………….. 65
OBITUARIES
Fritz Leiber…………………………………………………. 4
Appreciations by:
Robert Bloch………………………………………….69
Stephen King………………………………………….70
Ramsey Campbell………………………………….. 71
Frederik Pohl………………………………………….71
Edward Bryant……………………………………….71
Poul Anderson………………………………………..71
Michael Moorcock…………………………………. 72
Roger Zelazny………………………………………..72
Rosemary Sutcliff………………………………………..66
Appreciation by Cecelia Holland………………66
Mary Norton……………………………………………… 66
Robert Peak………………………………………………. 66
Millea Kenin………………………………………………. 66
Richard Bums……………………………………………. 66
Gordon D. McBain III…………………………………66
Horst Grimm……………………………………………… 66
Barbara Comyns………………………………………….66
Benson Herbert…………………………………………..66
Daniel Da Cruz……………………………………………66
Alan E. Nourse: An Appreciation
by Harry Harrison……………………………………66
A c e……………………. 10,26,38,75
Avon……………………………….. 20
Baen……………………….28,30,49
Bantam…………..18,22,34,40,41
Classifieds………………………..61
Charnel H ouse………………… 51
PHOTO CREDITS: (CNB) Charles N. Brown, (BG) Beth Gwinn, (JJ) Jane Jewell, (F) furnished, (CFC)
Carolyn F. Cushman.
ISSUE #381, VOL 29 NO. 4, October 1992, Malting Date: Sept. 30,1992
LOCUS October 1992 /3
INDEX TO ADS
DAW………………………………….2
Dell…………………………………..12
D e l Rey………………………. 32,36
Robert Gavora………………… 48
Locus………………………………..74
Morpheus International…….53
Revenant Books………………. 24
Richard Curtis Associates…..5
T o r …………………………14,16,76
Warner Questar………………. 64
Fritz L eiber………………. (BG)1
1992 Hugo Awards
Winners………………… (BG)1
Fritz Leiber………………. (BG)4
1992 Hugo Awards
PHOTO LISTING
Winners…………………… (JJ)6
1991 Chesley Awards
Winners………………. (CFCY7
Hubbard Awards Winners (F)8
Christopher Schelling.. (CFC)9
Judith T a rr………………….. (JJ)9
Jerry Poumelle,
Charles Sheffield………..(F)9
Continued on page 73
(ISSN-0047-4959)
EDITOR & PUBLISHER
Charles N. Brown
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Faren C. Miller
ASSISTANT EDITORS
Marianne S. Jablon
Carolyn F. Cushman
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
Dorothy A. Taylor
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Edward Bryant
Dan Chow
Mark R. Kelly
Russell Letson
Tom Maddox
Scott Winnett
Gary K. Wolfe
SPECIAL PROJECTS
William G. Contento
CON REPORTERS
Beth Gwinn
Jane Jewell
Locus, (ISSN-0047-4959), The Newspaper of the
Science Fiction Field, is published monthly by LOCUS
PUBLICATIONS Editorial address: 34 Ridgewood
Lane, Oakland, CA 94611. Please send all mail to Locus
Publications, P.O. Box 13305, Oakland, CA 94661.
Telephone (510) 339-9196
FAX (510) 339-8144
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$85.00 for 24 issues. Individual overseas subscriptions
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sea mail. Individual subscriptions to Europe or South
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Asia, or Africa via air mail are $75.00 for 12 issues,
$125.00 for 24 issues. California Residents please
add 8% sales tax. Institutional subscriptions are $3.00
extra per year. Make all checks payable to Locus
Publications. All subscriptions, including Canadian,
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($1.00 per issue). The number after your name on
the mailing label is that of the last issue on your
present subscription. If you change your address,
please notify us immediately. Second class mail is not
usually forwarded. It is either returned or destroyed.
We subtract one issue from your subscription for each
returned copy. We keep expired addresses on file for
one year, so tell us if your subscription is a renewal or
completely new.
British Subscription Agent: Fantast (Medway) Ltd.
P.O. Box 23, Upwell Wisbech, CAMBS PE14 9BU
Japanese Subscription Agent: Takumi Shibano
700 Ninomiya Ninomiya-machi
Naka-gun Kanagawa-ken, 259-01 Japan
Subscriptions accepted at current exchange rate.
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available. For information call (510) 339-9198.
FAX (510) 339-8144
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Contents copyright ©1992 by Locus Publications.
Second class postage paid at Oakland, California.
Postmaster: Send address changes to Locus Publications,
P.O. Box 13305, Oakland, CA 94661.
Table of Contents
MAIN STORIES
Fritz Leiber 1910-1992 …………………………………. 4
1992 Hugo Awards Winners………………………….6
MagiCon: 1992 World Science
Fiction Convention………………………………….. 6
Science Fiction Age Launched………………………..7
Lewis “Hoax” Goes On and On…………………….. 7
1991 Chesley Awards Winners………………………7
Pulphouse Slows Production………………………….8
Quantum Quits……………………………………………..8
Hubbard Contest Awards $4000 Prizes…………..8
Clarion West……………………………………………….11
THE DATA FILE
Publishing News……………………………………………8
Bookstore News……………………………………………8
Artists’ Market……………………………………………..8
Rushdie Update…………………………………………. 73
Awards News………………………………………………73
Book News………………………………………………….73
Convention Correction………………………………..73
Court Cases………………………………………………..73
Announcements………………………………………….73
SPECIAL FEATURES
Complete Hugo Voting………………………………..42
1992 Hugo Awards Ceremony…………………….. 44
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People & Publishing…………………………………….. 9
Reports from the Electronic Frontier,
by Tom Maddox……………………………………… 17
Locus Letters………………………………………………67
Editorial Matters………………………………………… 67
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Distillations: Short Fiction Reviews
by Mark R. Kelly:……………………………………. 13
Interzone 8/92; Interzone 9/92; F&SF 9/92; F&SF
10-11/92; Omni Best Science Fiction One, Ellen
Datlow, ed.; Omni 9/92; Pulphouse: A Fiction
Magazine #118/92, Amazing 10/92; Playboy 9/92.
Reviews by Faren Miller……………………………..19
Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson; The Maerlinde
Chronicles, a.k.a. In the Mothers’ Land, Elisabeth
Vonarburg; The Sons of Noah & Other Stories,
Jack Cady; Strange Devices of the Sun and Moon,
Lisa Goldstein; Chronicles of the King’s Tramp
#3: The Last Human, Tom De Haven; SHORT
TAKES: The Gates of Noon, Michael Scott
Rohan; The Way to Babylon, Paul Kearney; The
Small Bang, Jack Fenno.
Reviews by Edward Bryant:………………………….23
Gone South, Robert R. McCammon; Death’s
Door, John Wooley and Ron Wolfe; Afterimage,
Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Kevin J. Anderson;
Summer Sketches, Dan Simmons; SHORT
TAKES: Cold Turkey, Nancy A. Collins; Candles
on the Pond, Sue Ellen Sloca; Still Dead, John
Skipp and Craig Spector, eds.
Reviews by Russell Letson:………………………….27
A Million Open Doors, John Barnes; The Quicksilver
Screen, Don H. DeBrandt; What Might
Have Been? Volume 4: Alternate Americas, Gregory
Benford and Martin H. Greenberg, eds.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe:…………………………..31
The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume
One: Secret Sharers, a.k.a. The Collected
Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume One: Pluto
in the Morning Light and The Collected Stories
of Robert Silverberg, Volume Two: The Secret
Sharer, Robert Silverberg; Speaking in Tongues,
Ian McDonald; Mirror to the Sky , Mark S. Geston;
A Deeper Sea, Alexander Jablokov; Resurrection,
Katharine Kerr.
Reviews by Dan Chow:……………………………….. 35
Mirror to the Sky, Mark S. Geston; Aestival Tide,
Elizabeth Hand; Quarantine, Greg Egan; Odyssey:
The Authorised Biography of Arthur C.
Clarke, a.k.a. Arthur C. Clarke: The Authorized
Biography, Neil McAleer.
Reviews by Carolyn Cushman:……………………..37
Mostly Harmless, Douglas Adams; The
Outskirter’s Secret, Rosemary Kirstein; Shadow-
Maze, Jonathan Wylie; Gatherer of Clouds, Sean
Russell; SHORT TAKES: Child of the Phoenix,
Barbara Erskine; The Emancipator, Book 3: The
Orpheus Machine, Ray Aldridge; Castle Spellbound,
John DeChancie; All Hallow’s Eve: Tales
of Love and the Supernatural, Mary Elizabeth
Allen, ed.; Ardent Apparitions, Ellen Fitzgerald.
Short Reviews by Scott Winnett: ………………….39
Mrs. Vargas and the Dead Naturalist, Kathleen
Alcala; Conglomeros, Jesse Browner; Doctor
Watson and the Invisible Man, Noel Downing;
668: The Neighbor of the Beast, Lionel Fenn;
Gregory, Maw, and the Mean One, David Gifaldi;
Negrophobia, Darius James; A Little Time in
Texas, Joan Johnston; Winds of Change,
Mercedes Lackey; Lady of the Forest, Jennifer
Roberson; Moonrunner. Under the Shadow, Jane
Toombs; The Guns of the South, Harry Turtledove;
Amazon, Barbara G. Walker, Briar Rose,
Jane Yolen.
CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES
Magicon: 1992 World Science
Fiction Convention……………………………………6
LISTINGS
Magazines Received – August……………………….46
Books Received — August………………………….. 47
British Books – July……………………………………..59
Bestsellers………………………………………………….. 65
OBITUARIES
Fritz Leiber…………………………………………………. 4
Appreciations by:
Robert Bloch………………………………………….69
Stephen King………………………………………….70
Ramsey Campbell………………………………….. 71
Frederik Pohl………………………………………….71
Edward Bryant……………………………………….71
Poul Anderson………………………………………..71
Michael Moorcock…………………………………. 72
Roger Zelazny………………………………………..72
Rosemary Sutcliff………………………………………..66
Appreciation by Cecelia Holland………………66
Mary Norton……………………………………………… 66
Robert Peak………………………………………………. 66
Millea Kenin………………………………………………. 66
Richard Bums……………………………………………. 66
Gordon D. McBain III…………………………………66
Horst Grimm……………………………………………… 66
Barbara Comyns………………………………………….66
Benson Herbert…………………………………………..66
Daniel Da Cruz……………………………………………66
Alan E. Nourse: An Appreciation
by Harry Harrison……………………………………66
A c e……………………. 10,26,38,75
Avon……………………………….. 20
Baen……………………….28,30,49
Bantam…………..18,22,34,40,41
Classifieds………………………..61
Charnel H ouse………………… 51
PHOTO CREDITS: (CNB) Charles N. Brown, (BG) Beth Gwinn, (JJ) Jane Jewell, (F) furnished, (CFC)
Carolyn F. Cushman.
ISSUE #381, VOL 29 NO. 4, October 1992, Malting Date: Sept. 30,1992
LOCUS October 1992 /3
INDEX TO ADS
DAW………………………………….2
Dell…………………………………..12
D e l Rey………………………. 32,36
Robert Gavora………………… 48
Locus………………………………..74
Morpheus International…….53
Revenant Books………………. 24
Richard Curtis Associates…..5
T o r …………………………14,16,76
Warner Questar………………. 64
Fritz L eiber………………. (BG)1
1992 Hugo Awards
Winners………………… (BG)1
Fritz Leiber………………. (BG)4
1992 Hugo Awards
PHOTO LISTING
Winners…………………… (JJ)6
1991 Chesley Awards
Winners………………. (CFCY7
Hubbard Awards Winners (F)8
Christopher Schelling.. (CFC)9
Judith T a rr………………….. (JJ)9
Jerry Poumelle,
Charles Sheffield………..(F)9
Continued on page 73
