Table of Contents, June 1996
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
June 1996 Issue 425 Vol. 36 No. 6
29th Year of Publication 17-Time Hugo Winner
CHARLES N. BROWN
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
MARIANNE S. JABLON
Managing Editor
FAREN C. MILLER
CAROLYN F. CUSHMAN
Editors
KIRSTEN GONG-WONG
Assistant Editor
EDWARD BRYANT
SHIRA DAEMON
MARK R. KELLY
RUSSELL LETSON
GARY K. WOLFE
Contributing Editors
WILLIAM G. CONTENTO
Special Projects
BETH GWINN
Photographer
Locus, The Newspaper of the Science Fiction Field (ISSN
0047-4959), is published monthly, at $4.50 per copy,
by Locus Publications, 34 Ridgewood Lane, Oakland
CA 94611. Please send all mail to: Locus Publications,
P.O. Box 13305, Oakland CA 94661. Telephone (510)
339-9196 ; (510) 339-9198. FAX (510) 339-8144. Email:
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145, Japan; Australian Subscription Agent: Justin
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Melbourne, Victoria, 3001, Australia. Bookseller discounts
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°1996 by Locus Publications. We take no responsibility
for unsolicited submissions. Printed in the United States.
Second class postage paid at Oakland, California. POSTMASTER:
Send address changes to Locus Publications,
P.O. Box 13305, Oakland CA 94661.
Letters, information, and credit card subscriptions
can be sent by E-mail to locusmag@aol.com or by
fax to 510-339-8144.
MAIN STORIES
3001: The Final Odyssey/8 Gilman Joins Roc/8 Omni Internet Relaunch/8
Dell Magazine Awards/8 1996 Nebula Awards Juries/9 Hugo Notes/9
THE DATA FILE
Contest News/9 Announcements/9 Publishing News/9
Readings & Signings/9 Awards News/9 Convention News/81
Financial News/81 Magazine News/82 Court Cases/82
On-Line News/82 Multi-Media News/82 Rights & Options/82
Publications Received/82 Multi-Media Received/83 Catalogs Received/83
INTERVIEWS
William Tenn: SF Riffs/4
K.W. Jeter: Arguments with a Ghost/6
CONVENTION
1996 Nebula Weekend/52
OBITUARIES
David Lasser/78 Frank Riley/78 P.L. Travers/78
Vera Chapman/78 Redd Boggs/79
Redd Boggs : An Appreciation by Arthur Jean Cox/79
Willis Conover/79 Christopher Robin Milne/79
Stirling Silliphant/79 William Keith Everson/80
LISTINGS
Forthcoming Books/34 British Forthcoming Books/46
Magazines Received: April/56 Books Received: April/57
British Books: March/71 Bestsellers/76
Photo Listing/86 Index to Ads/86
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People & Publishing/10 Locus Letters/80 Editorial Matters/80
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Distillations: Short Fiction
Reviews by Mark R. Kelly / 13
Interzone 4/96; Asimov’s 7/96; SF Age 5/96.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe /1 5
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual
Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed.; Year’s Best Science
Fiction, David G. Hartwell, ed.; The Year’s Best Fantasy
and Horror, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds.;
Best New Horror 6, Stephen Jones, ed.; Walking the
Labyrinth, Lisa Goldstein.
Reviews by Faren Miller / 19
A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin; The Winter
King, Bernard Cornwell; Winter Rose, Patricia A.
McKillip; The Hunger and Ecstacy of Vampires, Brian
Stableford; Blameless in Abaddon, James Morrow;
Cold Shoulder Road, Joan Aiken.
Reviews by Russell Letson / 23
Blue Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson; Yesterday’s Men,
George Turner; Ancient Shores, Jack McDevitt.
Reviews by Edward Bryant / 27
The Green Mile #3: Coffey’s Hands, Stephen King;
Serial Killer Days, David Prill; Killjoy, Elizabeth Forrest;
SHORT TAKE: Noirotica, Thomas S. Roche, ed.
Reviews by Shira Daemon / 29
Cosmic Thunder, William John Watkins; Wind From
a Foreign Sky, Katya Reimann; Blue Apes, Phyllis
Gotlieb; Panda Ray, Michael Kandel.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 31
Drum Warning, Jo Clayton; The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
and Science Fiction Art Techniques, John Grant
& Ron Tiner; The Glass Mountains, Cynthia Kadohata;
The Waterborn, J. Gregory Keyes; Night Calls,
Katharine Eliska Kimbriel; Guardian’s Key, Anne
Logston; Black Horses for the King, Anne McCaffrey;
Wind From a Foreign Sky, Katya Reimann; Glory in
Death, J.D. Robb; Honor Among Enemies, David
Weber; Shade and Shadow, Francine G. Woodbury.
More Short Reviews by Monica Simmons / 69
Murder in the Solid State, Wil McCarthy; Fall of Angels,
L.E. Modesitt, Jr.; The Higher Space, Jamil Nasir;
Witch-Light, Melanie Tem & Nancy Holder; Time
Burial, Howard Wandrei.
3 / LOCUS June 1996
June 1996 Issue 425 Vol. 36 No. 6
29th Year of Publication 17-Time Hugo Winner
CHARLES N. BROWN
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
MARIANNE S. JABLON
Managing Editor
FAREN C. MILLER
CAROLYN F. CUSHMAN
Editors
KIRSTEN GONG-WONG
Assistant Editor
EDWARD BRYANT
SHIRA DAEMON
MARK R. KELLY
RUSSELL LETSON
GARY K. WOLFE
Contributing Editors
WILLIAM G. CONTENTO
Special Projects
BETH GWINN
Photographer
Locus, The Newspaper of the Science Fiction Field (ISSN
0047-4959), is published monthly, at $4.50 per copy,
by Locus Publications, 34 Ridgewood Lane, Oakland
CA 94611. Please send all mail to: Locus Publications,
P.O. Box 13305, Oakland CA 94661. Telephone (510)
339-9196 ; (510) 339-9198. FAX (510) 339-8144. Email:
locusmag @aol.com. Individual subscriptions in the
US: $43.00 for 12 issues, $80.00 for 24 issues via
second class mail. In Canada: $48.00 for 12 issues,
$90.00 for 24 issues via second class mail. First class
individual subscriptions in the US or Canada are $53.00
for 12 issues, $95.00 for 24 issues. Individual overseas
subscriptions are $48.00 for 12 issues, $90.00 for 24
issues via sea mail. Individual subscriptions to Europe or
South America via air mail are $70.00 for 12 issues,
$120.00 for 24 issues. Individual subscriptions to Australia,
Asia, or Africa via air mail are $80.00 for 12 issues,
$135.00 for 24 issues. Lifetime subscriptions are
ten times the one-year rate. Institutional subscriptions
are $3.00 extra per year. Make checks payable to Locus
Publications. All subscriptions payable directly in US
funds only. Overseas checks must be drawn on a US
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, UK. Japanese Subscription Agent: Yoshio
Kobayashi, 3-34-14-301, Kitasenzoku, Ohta-ku, Tokyo,
145, Japan; Australian Subscription Agent: Justin
Ackroyd, Slow Glass Books G.P.O. Box 2708X,
Melbourne, Victoria, 3001, Australia. Bookseller discounts
available. Display advertising rates on request.
°1996 by Locus Publications. We take no responsibility
for unsolicited submissions. Printed in the United States.
Second class postage paid at Oakland, California. POSTMASTER:
Send address changes to Locus Publications,
P.O. Box 13305, Oakland CA 94661.
Letters, information, and credit card subscriptions
can be sent by E-mail to locusmag@aol.com or by
fax to 510-339-8144.
MAIN STORIES
3001: The Final Odyssey/8 Gilman Joins Roc/8 Omni Internet Relaunch/8
Dell Magazine Awards/8 1996 Nebula Awards Juries/9 Hugo Notes/9
THE DATA FILE
Contest News/9 Announcements/9 Publishing News/9
Readings & Signings/9 Awards News/9 Convention News/81
Financial News/81 Magazine News/82 Court Cases/82
On-Line News/82 Multi-Media News/82 Rights & Options/82
Publications Received/82 Multi-Media Received/83 Catalogs Received/83
INTERVIEWS
William Tenn: SF Riffs/4
K.W. Jeter: Arguments with a Ghost/6
CONVENTION
1996 Nebula Weekend/52
OBITUARIES
David Lasser/78 Frank Riley/78 P.L. Travers/78
Vera Chapman/78 Redd Boggs/79
Redd Boggs : An Appreciation by Arthur Jean Cox/79
Willis Conover/79 Christopher Robin Milne/79
Stirling Silliphant/79 William Keith Everson/80
LISTINGS
Forthcoming Books/34 British Forthcoming Books/46
Magazines Received: April/56 Books Received: April/57
British Books: March/71 Bestsellers/76
Photo Listing/86 Index to Ads/86
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People & Publishing/10 Locus Letters/80 Editorial Matters/80
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Distillations: Short Fiction
Reviews by Mark R. Kelly / 13
Interzone 4/96; Asimov’s 7/96; SF Age 5/96.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe /1 5
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual
Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed.; Year’s Best Science
Fiction, David G. Hartwell, ed.; The Year’s Best Fantasy
and Horror, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds.;
Best New Horror 6, Stephen Jones, ed.; Walking the
Labyrinth, Lisa Goldstein.
Reviews by Faren Miller / 19
A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin; The Winter
King, Bernard Cornwell; Winter Rose, Patricia A.
McKillip; The Hunger and Ecstacy of Vampires, Brian
Stableford; Blameless in Abaddon, James Morrow;
Cold Shoulder Road, Joan Aiken.
Reviews by Russell Letson / 23
Blue Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson; Yesterday’s Men,
George Turner; Ancient Shores, Jack McDevitt.
Reviews by Edward Bryant / 27
The Green Mile #3: Coffey’s Hands, Stephen King;
Serial Killer Days, David Prill; Killjoy, Elizabeth Forrest;
SHORT TAKE: Noirotica, Thomas S. Roche, ed.
Reviews by Shira Daemon / 29
Cosmic Thunder, William John Watkins; Wind From
a Foreign Sky, Katya Reimann; Blue Apes, Phyllis
Gotlieb; Panda Ray, Michael Kandel.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 31
Drum Warning, Jo Clayton; The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
and Science Fiction Art Techniques, John Grant
& Ron Tiner; The Glass Mountains, Cynthia Kadohata;
The Waterborn, J. Gregory Keyes; Night Calls,
Katharine Eliska Kimbriel; Guardian’s Key, Anne
Logston; Black Horses for the King, Anne McCaffrey;
Wind From a Foreign Sky, Katya Reimann; Glory in
Death, J.D. Robb; Honor Among Enemies, David
Weber; Shade and Shadow, Francine G. Woodbury.
More Short Reviews by Monica Simmons / 69
Murder in the Solid State, Wil McCarthy; Fall of Angels,
L.E. Modesitt, Jr.; The Higher Space, Jamil Nasir;
Witch-Light, Melanie Tem & Nancy Holder; Time
Burial, Howard Wandrei.
3 / LOCUS June 1996
