Table of Contents, April 1997
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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
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
April 1997 Issue 435 Vol. 38 No. 4
30th Year of Publication 18-Time Hugo Winner
MAIN STORIES
1996 Tiptree Awards/8 Bryant Illness/8
Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot/8
New SF Specialty Publisher/8
BSFA Awards Nominations/8
’96 Book Sales Rose, But Growth Slowed/9
Musicland Still in Difficulties/9
THE DATA FILE
Announcements/9 Readings & Signings/9
Worldcon Update/9 Award News/9 Publishing News/9
Financial News/9 Book News/58 Rights & Options/58
Online News/58 Publications Received/58
Multi-Media Received/58 Catalogs Received/58
INTERVIEWS
Poul Anderson: Fifty Years of Science Fiction/4
Garth Nix:The Midden and the River/6
PHOTO STORIES
When Brits Blitzed Burbank/59
Huss at Galerie Morpheus/59
OBITUARIES
Floyd C. Gold/56 Vsevolod Aleksandrovich Revich/56
Andrej Donatovich Sinyavskij/56 Erin Louisa Card/56
LISTINGS
Magazines Received: February/32
Books Received: February/33 British Books: January/49
Bestsellers/54 Photo Listing/66 Index to Ads/66
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People & Publishing/10 Locus Letters/56 Editorial Matters/56
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Distillations: Short Fiction
Reviews by Mark R. Kelly /1 3
tomorrowsf v1 n5 (webzine); Omni Fiction Salon
(webzine); F&SF3/97; Realms of Fantasy 2/ 97; SF Age
3/97; Interzone 2/97; Bending the Landscape: Fantasy,
Nicola Griffith & Stephen Pagel, eds.; Asimov’s
5/97; Analog 5/97.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe /1 7
The Family Tree, Sheri S. Tepper; The Sparrow, Mary
Doria Russell; The Calcutta Chromosome, Amitav
Ghosh; The Prestige, Christopher Priest; Foundation’s
Fear, Gregory Benford; Isaac Asimov: The Foundations
of Science Fiction, Revised Edition, James
Gunn; Killdozer! Volume lll:The Complete Stories of
Theodore Sturgeon, Paul Williams, ed.; Reflections
and Refractions: Thoughts on Science-Fiction, Science,
and Other Matters, Robert Silverberg.
Reviews by Faren Miller / 21
Blueheart, Alison Sinclair; The Family Tree, Sheri S.
Tepper; Jovah’s Angel, Sharon Shinn; The Stars Dispose,
Michaela Roessner; Love in Vein II, Poppy Z.
Brite & Martin H. Greenberg, eds.; SHORT TAKES: A
Son of the Rock, Jack Deighton; Map of Power, Tess
Williams.
Reviews by Russell Letson / 23
City on Fire, Walter Jon Williams; The Fortunate Fall,
Raphael Carter; Patton’s Spaceship, John Barnes.
Reviews by Edward Bryant / 25
Sole Survivor, Dean Koontz; The Dealings of Daniel
Kesserich, Fritz Leiber; Saguaro Riptide, Norman
Partridge; The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum; SHORT
TAKES: Blood Brothers, Richard Chizmar; Between
Floors, Thomas F. Monteleone.
Reviews by Shira Daemon / 27
The Stars Dispose, Michaela Roessner; Interface
Masque, Shariann Lewitt; Bijapur, Kara Dalkey;
Assassin’s Quest, Robin Hobb; SHORT TAKE: Stalking
Darkness, Lynn Flewelling.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman/ 29
Ring of Intrigue, Jane S. Fancher; The Seventh Heart,
Marina Fitch; The Howling Stones, Alan Dean Foster;
Blood Debt, Tanya Huff; Emerald House Rising,
Peg Kerr; The Blackgod, J. Gregory Keyes; The
Mageborn Traitor, Melanie Rawn; Final Diagnosis,
James White; Promised Land, Connie Willis & Cynthia
Felice; Fool’s War, Sarah Zettel.
LOCUS April 1997/3
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. E-mail:
Locus@Locusmag.com. Individual subscriptions in the
US: $43.00 for 12 issues, $80.00 for 24 issues via periodical
mail. In Canada: $48.00 for 12 issues, $90.00 for
24 issues via periodical 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 o r South America
via air mail are $70.00 for 12 issues, $120.00 for 24 issues.
Individual subscriptions to A ustralia, Asia, or Africa
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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
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is that of the last issue on your present subscription. If
you change your address, please notify us immediately.
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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, O hta-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. ©1997 by Locus
Publications. We take no responsibility for unsolicited submissions.
Printed in the United States. Periodicals postage
paid at Oakland, California and additional mailing
offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Locus
Publications, P.O. Box 13305, Oakland CA 94661.
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can be sent by E-mail to Locus@Locusmag.com or
by fax to 510-339-8144.
Official Locus Web Sites. Locus Web Page: h ttp://
www.Locusmag.com (still under co nstruction); Locus
Poll Database: www.sff.net/locus/poll/index.html;
Locus index to Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror
1984-1996: http://www.sff.net/locus/. U nofficial Web
Site: Index to Locus’s book reviews, interviews and
obituaries from 4/87 to 6/96: http://home.aol.com/
oneirovox or CompuServe at GOSFLIT, L ibrary 15,
and maybe other places.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
April 1997 Issue 435 Vol. 38 No. 4
30th Year of Publication 18-Time Hugo Winner
MAIN STORIES
1996 Tiptree Awards/8 Bryant Illness/8
Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot/8
New SF Specialty Publisher/8
BSFA Awards Nominations/8
’96 Book Sales Rose, But Growth Slowed/9
Musicland Still in Difficulties/9
THE DATA FILE
Announcements/9 Readings & Signings/9
Worldcon Update/9 Award News/9 Publishing News/9
Financial News/9 Book News/58 Rights & Options/58
Online News/58 Publications Received/58
Multi-Media Received/58 Catalogs Received/58
INTERVIEWS
Poul Anderson: Fifty Years of Science Fiction/4
Garth Nix:The Midden and the River/6
PHOTO STORIES
When Brits Blitzed Burbank/59
Huss at Galerie Morpheus/59
OBITUARIES
Floyd C. Gold/56 Vsevolod Aleksandrovich Revich/56
Andrej Donatovich Sinyavskij/56 Erin Louisa Card/56
LISTINGS
Magazines Received: February/32
Books Received: February/33 British Books: January/49
Bestsellers/54 Photo Listing/66 Index to Ads/66
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People & Publishing/10 Locus Letters/56 Editorial Matters/56
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Distillations: Short Fiction
Reviews by Mark R. Kelly /1 3
tomorrowsf v1 n5 (webzine); Omni Fiction Salon
(webzine); F&SF3/97; Realms of Fantasy 2/ 97; SF Age
3/97; Interzone 2/97; Bending the Landscape: Fantasy,
Nicola Griffith & Stephen Pagel, eds.; Asimov’s
5/97; Analog 5/97.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe /1 7
The Family Tree, Sheri S. Tepper; The Sparrow, Mary
Doria Russell; The Calcutta Chromosome, Amitav
Ghosh; The Prestige, Christopher Priest; Foundation’s
Fear, Gregory Benford; Isaac Asimov: The Foundations
of Science Fiction, Revised Edition, James
Gunn; Killdozer! Volume lll:The Complete Stories of
Theodore Sturgeon, Paul Williams, ed.; Reflections
and Refractions: Thoughts on Science-Fiction, Science,
and Other Matters, Robert Silverberg.
Reviews by Faren Miller / 21
Blueheart, Alison Sinclair; The Family Tree, Sheri S.
Tepper; Jovah’s Angel, Sharon Shinn; The Stars Dispose,
Michaela Roessner; Love in Vein II, Poppy Z.
Brite & Martin H. Greenberg, eds.; SHORT TAKES: A
Son of the Rock, Jack Deighton; Map of Power, Tess
Williams.
Reviews by Russell Letson / 23
City on Fire, Walter Jon Williams; The Fortunate Fall,
Raphael Carter; Patton’s Spaceship, John Barnes.
Reviews by Edward Bryant / 25
Sole Survivor, Dean Koontz; The Dealings of Daniel
Kesserich, Fritz Leiber; Saguaro Riptide, Norman
Partridge; The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum; SHORT
TAKES: Blood Brothers, Richard Chizmar; Between
Floors, Thomas F. Monteleone.
Reviews by Shira Daemon / 27
The Stars Dispose, Michaela Roessner; Interface
Masque, Shariann Lewitt; Bijapur, Kara Dalkey;
Assassin’s Quest, Robin Hobb; SHORT TAKE: Stalking
Darkness, Lynn Flewelling.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman/ 29
Ring of Intrigue, Jane S. Fancher; The Seventh Heart,
Marina Fitch; The Howling Stones, Alan Dean Foster;
Blood Debt, Tanya Huff; Emerald House Rising,
Peg Kerr; The Blackgod, J. Gregory Keyes; The
Mageborn Traitor, Melanie Rawn; Final Diagnosis,
James White; Promised Land, Connie Willis & Cynthia
Felice; Fool’s War, Sarah Zettel.
LOCUS April 1997/3
