Table of Contents, May 1997
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
May 1997 Issue 436 Vol. 38 No. 5
30th Year of Publication 18-Time Hugo Winner
MAIN STORIES
1997 Hugo Awards Nominations/7
1996 Nebula Winners/8
1996 Philip K. Dick Award/8
HarperCollins Reorganizes/8
Bram Stoker Awards Nominees/8
Chesley Awards Nominations/8
Spectrum Books Announced/9
Wizards Buys TSR/9
FC2/BIack Ice in Hot Water/9
Internet Bookstore Battle: Part II/9
THE DATA FILE
Small Distributors CIosing/9 Chain Sales Rise Again/9
Announcements/9 On the Web/9 Call for Papers/9
Award News/70 Readings & Signings/70 Financial News/70
Book News/70 Court Cases/70 Rights & Options/70
Market Update/70 Publications Received/ 70 Catalogs Received/71
INTERVIEWS
Dan Simmons: Hyperion Revealed/4
Sean Russell:The World & Its Wonders/6
CONVENTION
1997 Conference on the Fantastic/34
INTERNATIONAL
SF in the Czech Republic in 1996/40 SF in Zimbabwe & Malawi/41
SF in New Zealand: 1996/42
OBITUARIES
Sam Moskowitz/66
Martin Caidin/67 Martin Caidin: An Appreciation by R.M. DiPalma/67
Charles V. De Vet/68 Terry Nation/68 Seth Goldberg/68
LISTINGS
International Books and Magazines Received/42 Convention Listings/45
Magazines Received: March/48 Books Received: March/49
British Books: February/59 Bestsellers/64 Photo Listing/74 Index to Ads/74
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People & Publishing/10 QuotePage/31 Locus Letters/68 Editorial Matters/69
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Distillations: Short Fiction
Reviews by Mark R. Kelly /1 3
Interzone 3/97; Asimov’s 6/97; F&SF 4/97; SF Age 5/97;
Omni Online 3/97.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe /1 7
Nebula Awards 31, Pamela Sargent, ed.; God’s Fires,
Patricia Anthony; Briar Rose, Robert Coover;
neoAddix, Jon Courtenay Grimwood.
Reviews by Faren Miller / 21
God’s Fires, Patricia Anthony; The Dazzle of Day,
Molly Gloss; Going Home Again, Howard Waldrop;
The Plenty Principle, Colin Greenland; The Horns of
Elfland, Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman & Donald G.
Keller, eds.; Tesseracts5, Robert Runte and Yves
Meynard, eds.
Reviews by Edward Bryant / 25
The Bell Witch, Brent Monahan; Love in Vein II, Poppy
Z. Brite, ed.; A Fist Full of Stories (And Articles),
Joe R. Lansdale; Blood, Jay Russell; Shackled, Ray
Garton.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman/ 29
Thirsty, M.T. Anderson; The Would-be Witch, Rita
Boucher; Rage of a Demon King, Raymond E. Feist;
King’s Man and Thief, Christie Golden; The Killing
Dance, Laurell K. Hamilton; Hunting the Corrigan’s
Blood; Holly Lisle; Firewalk, Anne Logston; Acorna:
The Unicorn Girl, Anne McCaffrey & Margaret Ball; A
Completely Different Place, Perry Nodelman; Virtual
War, Gloria Skurzynski.
LOCUS May 1997/3
CHARLES N. BROWN
Publ isher & Edi tor-in-Chi ef
MARIANNE S. JABLON
Managing Editor
FAREN C. MILLER
CAROLYN F. CUSHMAN
Editors
KIRSTEN GONG-WONG
Ass i stant Editor
EDWARD BRYANT
MARK R. KELLY
RUSSELL LETSON
GARY K. WOLFE
Contributing Edi t o r s
WILLIAM G. CONTENTO
Speci al Proj e ct s
BETH GWINN
Photogr aphe r
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May 1997 Issue 436 Vol. 38 No. 5
30th Year of Publication 18-Time Hugo Winner
MAIN STORIES
1997 Hugo Awards Nominations/7
1996 Nebula Winners/8
1996 Philip K. Dick Award/8
HarperCollins Reorganizes/8
Bram Stoker Awards Nominees/8
Chesley Awards Nominations/8
Spectrum Books Announced/9
Wizards Buys TSR/9
FC2/BIack Ice in Hot Water/9
Internet Bookstore Battle: Part II/9
THE DATA FILE
Small Distributors CIosing/9 Chain Sales Rise Again/9
Announcements/9 On the Web/9 Call for Papers/9
Award News/70 Readings & Signings/70 Financial News/70
Book News/70 Court Cases/70 Rights & Options/70
Market Update/70 Publications Received/ 70 Catalogs Received/71
INTERVIEWS
Dan Simmons: Hyperion Revealed/4
Sean Russell:The World & Its Wonders/6
CONVENTION
1997 Conference on the Fantastic/34
INTERNATIONAL
SF in the Czech Republic in 1996/40 SF in Zimbabwe & Malawi/41
SF in New Zealand: 1996/42
OBITUARIES
Sam Moskowitz/66
Martin Caidin/67 Martin Caidin: An Appreciation by R.M. DiPalma/67
Charles V. De Vet/68 Terry Nation/68 Seth Goldberg/68
LISTINGS
International Books and Magazines Received/42 Convention Listings/45
Magazines Received: March/48 Books Received: March/49
British Books: February/59 Bestsellers/64 Photo Listing/74 Index to Ads/74
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People & Publishing/10 QuotePage/31 Locus Letters/68 Editorial Matters/69
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Distillations: Short Fiction
Reviews by Mark R. Kelly /1 3
Interzone 3/97; Asimov’s 6/97; F&SF 4/97; SF Age 5/97;
Omni Online 3/97.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe /1 7
Nebula Awards 31, Pamela Sargent, ed.; God’s Fires,
Patricia Anthony; Briar Rose, Robert Coover;
neoAddix, Jon Courtenay Grimwood.
Reviews by Faren Miller / 21
God’s Fires, Patricia Anthony; The Dazzle of Day,
Molly Gloss; Going Home Again, Howard Waldrop;
The Plenty Principle, Colin Greenland; The Horns of
Elfland, Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman & Donald G.
Keller, eds.; Tesseracts5, Robert Runte and Yves
Meynard, eds.
Reviews by Edward Bryant / 25
The Bell Witch, Brent Monahan; Love in Vein II, Poppy
Z. Brite, ed.; A Fist Full of Stories (And Articles),
Joe R. Lansdale; Blood, Jay Russell; Shackled, Ray
Garton.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman/ 29
Thirsty, M.T. Anderson; The Would-be Witch, Rita
Boucher; Rage of a Demon King, Raymond E. Feist;
King’s Man and Thief, Christie Golden; The Killing
Dance, Laurell K. Hamilton; Hunting the Corrigan’s
Blood; Holly Lisle; Firewalk, Anne Logston; Acorna:
The Unicorn Girl, Anne McCaffrey & Margaret Ball; A
Completely Different Place, Perry Nodelman; Virtual
War, Gloria Skurzynski.
LOCUS May 1997/3
CHARLES N. BROWN
Publ isher & Edi tor-in-Chi ef
MARIANNE S. JABLON
Managing Editor
FAREN C. MILLER
CAROLYN F. CUSHMAN
Editors
KIRSTEN GONG-WONG
Ass i stant Editor
EDWARD BRYANT
MARK R. KELLY
RUSSELL LETSON
GARY K. WOLFE
Contributing Edi t o r s
WILLIAM G. CONTENTO
Speci al Proj e ct s
BETH GWINN
Photogr aphe r
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 Australia, Asia, o r A frica
via air mail are $80.00 for 12 issues, $135.00 for 24 issues.
Lifetime subscriptions are ten times the one-year
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must be drawn on a US bank and include computer encoding
numbers at bottom. When converting from periodical
mail to first class delivery, please convert all remaining
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is that of the last issue on your present subscription. If
you change your address, please notify us immediately.
Periodical mail is not usually forwarded; it is either returned
or destroyed. We subtract one issue from your subscription
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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. Box2708X, 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. Periodical postage
paid at O akland, California and additional mailing offices.
POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Locus Publications,
P.O. Box 13305, Oakland CA 94661.
Letters, information, and credit card subscriptions
can De sent by e-mail to Locus@Locusmag.com or
by fax to 510-339-8144.
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www.sff.net/locus/poll/index.html; Locus index to
Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror 1984-1996: http:/
/www.sff.net/locus/. Unofficial Web Site: Index to
Locus’s book reviews, interviews and obituaries from
4 /8 7 to 6 /9 6 : h ttp ://h om e .a o l.c om /o n e iro v o x or
CompuServe at GOSFLIT, L ibrary 15, and maybe
other places.
