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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
Kirsten Gong-Wong
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Edward Bryant
Mark R. Kelly
Russell Letson
Tom Maddox
Scott Winnett
Gary K. Wolfe
SPECIAL PROJECTS
William G. Contento
PHOTOGRAPHERS
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
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Contents copyright © 1993 by Locus Publications.
Second class postage paid at Oakland, California.
Postmaster: Send address changes to Locus Publications,
P.O. Box 13305, Oakland, CA 94661.
MAIN STORIES
ConFrancisco Report……………………………………. 5
1993 Hugo Awards W inners…………………………..5
Nebula Awards Weekend 1994 ……………………….6
The Preiss/Bester Connection……………………….. 6
Delany Back in P rin t…………………………………….. 6
HWA Changes………………………………………………6
1992 Chesley Awards Winners……………………….6
Bidding War for Paramount……………………………7
Battle of the Fantasy Encyclopedias………………. 7
Fantasy Shop Helps AIDS F u n d ……………………. 9
SPECIAL FEATURES
Complete Hugo Voting…………………………………36
1993 Hugo Awards Ceremony……………………… 38
Locus Silver Anniversary Letters…………………. 40
THE DATA FILE
Stephen King First Edition Online…………………. 7
St. Martin’s/Tor Switches ID Distribution……….7
Court Cases…………………………………………………..7
Rushdie Update…………………………………………….7
Publishing News…………………………………………….7
Announcements………………………………………….. 69
Book News…………………………………………………..69
Magazine N ews…………………………………………… 72
Bookstore News………………………………………….. 72
Awards News……………………………………………….72
Rights & Options………………………………………… 72
Worldcon Update……………………………………….. 72
Publications Received…………………………………..72
Fall Audio Cassettes……………………………………. 73
INTERVIEWS
Michael Moorcock: An Ongoing Dialog…………..4
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People and Publishing…………………………………… 8
Reports from the Electronic Frontier,
Tom Maddox……………………………………………11
Locus Letters……………………………………………….68
Michael Bishop; Virgil Utter; Neal Barrett, Jr.;
Pamela Sargent; Robert J. Sawyer; Jennifer
Roberson.
Editorial Matters…………………………………………. 69
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Distillations: Short Fiction Reviews
by Mark R. Kelly:…………………………………….. 13
Interzone 9/93; Analog 11/93; Amazing 10/93;
F&SF 9/93; F&SF 10-11/93; Asimov’s 10/93;
Asimov’s 11/93; Omni 10/93.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe:……………………………17
The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North
American Science Fiction, 1960-1990, Ursula K.
Le Guin & Brian Attebery, eds.; Chimera, Mary
Rosenblum; Core, Paul Preuss; A Tupolev Too
Far, Brian Aldiss; SHORT TAKES: Argyll: A
Memoir, Theodore Sturgeon; The Rediscovery
of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of
Cordwainer Smith, Cordwainer Smith.
Reviews by Russell Letson:…………………………..21
The Mind Pool, Charles Sheffield; More Than
Fire, Philip Jose Farmer; The Sea’s Furthest
End, Damien Broderick.
Reviews by Faren M iller…………………………….. 23
Green Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson; Brother
Termite, Patricia Anthony; Lasher, Anne Rice; A
Shadow on the Skin, Keren Gilfoyle; The
Innkeeper’s Song, Peter S. Beagle; Is, Joan Aiken;
SHORT TAKES: Conscience of the Beagle,
Patricia Anthony.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman:……………. 27
Guilty Pleasures, Laurell K. Hamilton; Blood
Pact, Tanya Huff; Healer, Kris Jensen; Dancing
Jack, Laurie J. Marks; The Chronicles of Pern:
First Fall, Anne McCaffrey; Windleaf, Josepha
Sherman; The Fabulist, John Vornholt; Earth
Saver, Catherine Wells; Here There Be Dragons,
Jane Yolen.
Reviews by Edward Bryant:…………………………..29
Nightmares and Dreamscapes, Stephen King;
Making Love, Melanie Tem & Nancy Holder;
Monsters in Our Midst, Robert Bloch, ed.; Virtual
Light, William Gibson; SHORT TAKES:
The Night of the Living Dead: A 25th Anniversary
Tribute, Bob Morrish, Peter Enfantino, &
John Scoleri, eds.; Dark Whispers, Ed Gorman.
Short Reviews by Scott Winnett:…………………..33
Suckers, Anne Billson; The Rising of the Moon,
Flynn Connolly; Into the Green, Charles de Lint;
Ravenloft: I, Strahd, P.N. Elrod; Red Death, P.N.
Elrod; Guilty Pleasures, Laurell K. Hamilton.
LISTINGS
Convention Listings……………………………………..46
Magazines Received — August……………………..48
Books Received — August……………………………49
British Books – July……………………………………61
Bestsellers……………………………………………………67
OBITUARIES
Roland Adlerberth………………………………………68
Kurt Mahr………………………………………………….. 68
Hugo Awards Winners…….. (JJ)1
ConFrancisco………………… (DL) 1
Michael Moorcock…………(CNB)4
Chesley Awards Winners…. (JJ)6
Larry Niven……………………(CNB)8
Jane Fancher,
C.J. Cherryh……………… (CNB)8
Nicola Griffith,
Kelley Eskridge……………… (JJ)8
Josepha Sherman……………. (JJ)8
Greg Daniel, Alan Beckstead . (F)9
Janet Wilson Anderson….. (JJ)38
Takumi Shibano,
Dave Clark………………. (CNB)38
Marjii Ellers……………………..(JJ)38
Nicki & Dick Lynch………….(JJ)38
Andrew Porter……………..(CNB)38
Peggy Ranson……………….. (JJ)38
Awards Administrators &
Klingons……………………… (JJ)38
Mike Resnick,
Stanley Schmidt…………..(JJ)38
Poul Anderson…………….(CNB)38
Ray Beam, Catherine
Crook de Camp……………(JJ)38
Josette Sadoul,
Jacques Sadoul…………….(F)42
Julius Schwartz………………. (F)42
Carol &Craig Severance…. (F)42
Charles Sheffield……………..(F)42
Takumi Shibano,
Forrest J Ackerman……….(F)43
Allen Steele………………………(F)43
Michael Swanwick……………(F)43
Joan D. Vinge…………………. (F)44
Vernor Vinge…………………….(F)44
Ian Watson……………………….(F)44
Connie Willis…………………… (F)44
F. Paul Wilson…………………. (F)44
Sheila (Elkin) Gilbert….. (CNB)44
Elsie Wollheim…………….(CNB)45
Betsy Wollheim……………(CNB)45
William F. Wu, Clara Yen…. (F)45
Jane Yolen……………………….(F)45
Poppy Z Brite…………………. (F)45
John Kessel……………………..(F)46
Alicia Austin…………………… (JJ) 71
Joe Haldeman……………….. (JJ)71
Tom Digby………………………(JJ)71
Hugo Awards Winners……..(JJ)71
PHOTO CREDITS: (CNB) Charles N. Brown, (JJ) Jane Jewell, (CFC) Carolyn F. Cushman, (DL) Danny
Low, (F) furnished.
ISSUE #393 VOL 31 NO. 4, October 1993, Mailing Date: September 30,1993
LOCUS October 1993/ 3
Table of Contents
……………
Baen…………………………….. 2,20,30
Bantam…………………………
Bridge…………………………………..25
INDEX TO ADS
Classified Ads……………………… 63
DAW…………………………………….. 56
DC Comics………………………….. 1 2
Del Rey……………………………
Lo cus………………………………….. 74
Locus Back Issues……………….
Tor……………………………… 10,21,75
Unnameable Press……….53
PHOTO LISTING
Vernor Vinge, Tom Whitmore,
Connie Willis……………….. (JJ)39
ConFrancisco Bridge………(JJ)39
James Gurney……………. (CNB)39
Bruce Pelz……………………….(JJ)39
Janet Kagan……………….. (CFC)39
Connie Willis,
Joe Haldeman…………….. (JJ)39
Don Maitz……………………….. (JJ)39
Gardner Dozois……………… (JJ)39
“Mark Twain” ………………….(JJ)39
Abigail Frost…………………….(JJ)39
Guy Gavriel Kay…………..(CNB)39
jan howard finder……………(JJ)39
Judith Moffett……………………(F)40
Michael Moorcock……………(F)40
Sam Moskowitz………………. (F)40
Peter Nicholls…………………. (F)40
Jerry Oltion………………………(F)41
Bill Ransom………………………(F)41
John Maddox Roberts………(F)41
Kristine Kathryn Rusch……..(F)41
Dean Wesley Smith………….(F)41
Fred Saberhagen……………. (F)42
(ISSN-0047-4959)
EDITOR & PUBLISHER
Charles N. Brown
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Faren C. Miller
ASSISTANT EDITORS
Marianne S. Jablon
Carolyn F. Cushman
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
Kirsten Gong-Wong
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Edward Bryant
Mark R. Kelly
Russell Letson
Tom Maddox
Scott Winnett
Gary K. Wolfe
SPECIAL PROJECTS
William G. Contento
PHOTOGRAPHERS
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
Individual copies are $3.95. Individual subscriptions in
the U.S. are $38.00 for 12 issues, $70.00 for 24 issues
via second class mail. Individual subscriptions in
Canada are $43.00 for 12 issues, $80.00 for 24 issues
via second class mail. First class individual subscriptions
in the U.S. or Canada are $50.00 for 12 issues,
$90.00 for 24 issues. Individual overseas subscriptions
are $43.00 for 12 issues, $80.00 for 24 issues via
sea mail. Individual subscriptions to Europe or South
America via air mail are $67.00 for 12 issues, $114.00
for 24 issues. Individual subscriptions to Australia,
Asia, or Africa via air mail are $78.00 for 12 issues,
$130.00 for 24 issues. California nooidonto ploaoo
add 8% oalOG tax. Institutional subscriptions are $3.00
extra per year. Make all checks payable to Locus
Publications. All subscriptions, including Canadian,
are payable directly in U.S. funds only. Overseas
checks must be drawn on a U.S. bank and include
computer encoding numbers at bottom. When converting
from second class to first class delivery, please
convert all remaining issues on your present subscription
($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.
Display advertising rates on request. Booksellers discounts
available. For information call (510) 339-9198.
FAX (510) 339-8144
We take no responsibility for unsolicited submissions.
Contents copyright © 1993 by Locus Publications.
Second class postage paid at Oakland, California.
Postmaster: Send address changes to Locus Publications,
P.O. Box 13305, Oakland, CA 94661.
MAIN STORIES
ConFrancisco Report……………………………………. 5
1993 Hugo Awards W inners…………………………..5
Nebula Awards Weekend 1994 ……………………….6
The Preiss/Bester Connection……………………….. 6
Delany Back in P rin t…………………………………….. 6
HWA Changes………………………………………………6
1992 Chesley Awards Winners……………………….6
Bidding War for Paramount……………………………7
Battle of the Fantasy Encyclopedias………………. 7
Fantasy Shop Helps AIDS F u n d ……………………. 9
SPECIAL FEATURES
Complete Hugo Voting…………………………………36
1993 Hugo Awards Ceremony……………………… 38
Locus Silver Anniversary Letters…………………. 40
THE DATA FILE
Stephen King First Edition Online…………………. 7
St. Martin’s/Tor Switches ID Distribution……….7
Court Cases…………………………………………………..7
Rushdie Update…………………………………………….7
Publishing News…………………………………………….7
Announcements………………………………………….. 69
Book News…………………………………………………..69
Magazine N ews…………………………………………… 72
Bookstore News………………………………………….. 72
Awards News……………………………………………….72
Rights & Options………………………………………… 72
Worldcon Update……………………………………….. 72
Publications Received…………………………………..72
Fall Audio Cassettes……………………………………. 73
INTERVIEWS
Michael Moorcock: An Ongoing Dialog…………..4
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People and Publishing…………………………………… 8
Reports from the Electronic Frontier,
Tom Maddox……………………………………………11
Locus Letters……………………………………………….68
Michael Bishop; Virgil Utter; Neal Barrett, Jr.;
Pamela Sargent; Robert J. Sawyer; Jennifer
Roberson.
Editorial Matters…………………………………………. 69
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Distillations: Short Fiction Reviews
by Mark R. Kelly:…………………………………….. 13
Interzone 9/93; Analog 11/93; Amazing 10/93;
F&SF 9/93; F&SF 10-11/93; Asimov’s 10/93;
Asimov’s 11/93; Omni 10/93.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe:……………………………17
The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North
American Science Fiction, 1960-1990, Ursula K.
Le Guin & Brian Attebery, eds.; Chimera, Mary
Rosenblum; Core, Paul Preuss; A Tupolev Too
Far, Brian Aldiss; SHORT TAKES: Argyll: A
Memoir, Theodore Sturgeon; The Rediscovery
of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of
Cordwainer Smith, Cordwainer Smith.
Reviews by Russell Letson:…………………………..21
The Mind Pool, Charles Sheffield; More Than
Fire, Philip Jose Farmer; The Sea’s Furthest
End, Damien Broderick.
Reviews by Faren M iller…………………………….. 23
Green Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson; Brother
Termite, Patricia Anthony; Lasher, Anne Rice; A
Shadow on the Skin, Keren Gilfoyle; The
Innkeeper’s Song, Peter S. Beagle; Is, Joan Aiken;
SHORT TAKES: Conscience of the Beagle,
Patricia Anthony.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman:……………. 27
Guilty Pleasures, Laurell K. Hamilton; Blood
Pact, Tanya Huff; Healer, Kris Jensen; Dancing
Jack, Laurie J. Marks; The Chronicles of Pern:
First Fall, Anne McCaffrey; Windleaf, Josepha
Sherman; The Fabulist, John Vornholt; Earth
Saver, Catherine Wells; Here There Be Dragons,
Jane Yolen.
Reviews by Edward Bryant:…………………………..29
Nightmares and Dreamscapes, Stephen King;
Making Love, Melanie Tem & Nancy Holder;
Monsters in Our Midst, Robert Bloch, ed.; Virtual
Light, William Gibson; SHORT TAKES:
The Night of the Living Dead: A 25th Anniversary
Tribute, Bob Morrish, Peter Enfantino, &
John Scoleri, eds.; Dark Whispers, Ed Gorman.
Short Reviews by Scott Winnett:…………………..33
Suckers, Anne Billson; The Rising of the Moon,
Flynn Connolly; Into the Green, Charles de Lint;
Ravenloft: I, Strahd, P.N. Elrod; Red Death, P.N.
Elrod; Guilty Pleasures, Laurell K. Hamilton.
LISTINGS
Convention Listings……………………………………..46
Magazines Received — August……………………..48
Books Received — August……………………………49
British Books – July……………………………………61
Bestsellers……………………………………………………67
OBITUARIES
Roland Adlerberth………………………………………68
Kurt Mahr………………………………………………….. 68
Hugo Awards Winners…….. (JJ)1
ConFrancisco………………… (DL) 1
Michael Moorcock…………(CNB)4
Chesley Awards Winners…. (JJ)6
Larry Niven……………………(CNB)8
Jane Fancher,
C.J. Cherryh……………… (CNB)8
Nicola Griffith,
Kelley Eskridge……………… (JJ)8
Josepha Sherman……………. (JJ)8
Greg Daniel, Alan Beckstead . (F)9
Janet Wilson Anderson….. (JJ)38
Takumi Shibano,
Dave Clark………………. (CNB)38
Marjii Ellers……………………..(JJ)38
Nicki & Dick Lynch………….(JJ)38
Andrew Porter……………..(CNB)38
Peggy Ranson……………….. (JJ)38
Awards Administrators &
Klingons……………………… (JJ)38
Mike Resnick,
Stanley Schmidt…………..(JJ)38
Poul Anderson…………….(CNB)38
Ray Beam, Catherine
Crook de Camp……………(JJ)38
Josette Sadoul,
Jacques Sadoul…………….(F)42
Julius Schwartz………………. (F)42
Carol &Craig Severance…. (F)42
Charles Sheffield……………..(F)42
Takumi Shibano,
Forrest J Ackerman……….(F)43
Allen Steele………………………(F)43
Michael Swanwick……………(F)43
Joan D. Vinge…………………. (F)44
Vernor Vinge…………………….(F)44
Ian Watson……………………….(F)44
Connie Willis…………………… (F)44
F. Paul Wilson…………………. (F)44
Sheila (Elkin) Gilbert….. (CNB)44
Elsie Wollheim…………….(CNB)45
Betsy Wollheim……………(CNB)45
William F. Wu, Clara Yen…. (F)45
Jane Yolen……………………….(F)45
Poppy Z Brite…………………. (F)45
John Kessel……………………..(F)46
Alicia Austin…………………… (JJ) 71
Joe Haldeman……………….. (JJ)71
Tom Digby………………………(JJ)71
Hugo Awards Winners……..(JJ)71
PHOTO CREDITS: (CNB) Charles N. Brown, (JJ) Jane Jewell, (CFC) Carolyn F. Cushman, (DL) Danny
Low, (F) furnished.
ISSUE #393 VOL 31 NO. 4, October 1993, Mailing Date: September 30,1993
LOCUS October 1993/ 3
Table of Contents
……………
Baen…………………………….. 2,20,30
Bantam…………………………
Bridge…………………………………..25
INDEX TO ADS
Classified Ads……………………… 63
DAW…………………………………….. 56
DC Comics………………………….. 1 2
Del Rey……………………………
Lo cus………………………………….. 74
Locus Back Issues……………….
Tor……………………………… 10,21,75
Unnameable Press……….53
PHOTO LISTING
Vernor Vinge, Tom Whitmore,
Connie Willis……………….. (JJ)39
ConFrancisco Bridge………(JJ)39
James Gurney……………. (CNB)39
Bruce Pelz……………………….(JJ)39
Janet Kagan……………….. (CFC)39
Connie Willis,
Joe Haldeman…………….. (JJ)39
Don Maitz……………………….. (JJ)39
Gardner Dozois……………… (JJ)39
“Mark Twain” ………………….(JJ)39
Abigail Frost…………………….(JJ)39
Guy Gavriel Kay…………..(CNB)39
jan howard finder……………(JJ)39
Judith Moffett……………………(F)40
Michael Moorcock……………(F)40
Sam Moskowitz………………. (F)40
Peter Nicholls…………………. (F)40
Jerry Oltion………………………(F)41
Bill Ransom………………………(F)41
John Maddox Roberts………(F)41
Kristine Kathryn Rusch……..(F)41
Dean Wesley Smith………….(F)41
Fred Saberhagen……………. (F)42
