Table of Contents, June 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
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
June 1997 Issue 437 Vol. 38 No. 6
30th Year of Publication 18-Time Hugo Winner
MAIN STORIES
TSR Threatens Bankruptcy/8
Bantam Drops Star Wars Royalties/8
New British SF Magazine Announced/8
Dell Magazine Awards/8
Musicland in Trouble/8
THE DATA FILE
Announcements/9 On the Web/9
Awards News/9 Readings & Signings/9
Financial News/9 Worldcon News /9
Bookstore News/9 Book News/9
Magazine News/69 Rights & Options/69
Publications Received/69
Multi-Media Received/69 Catalogs Received/69
INTERVIEWS
Daniel Keyes: 40 Years of Algernon/4
John Kessel: No More Dr. Nice/6
CONVENTIONS
1997 Nebula Awards Weekend/46
OBITUARIES
Lou Stathis/66 David P. Usher/66
Ingrid Zierhut/66 James M. Carey/66
Sam Moskowitz: An Appreciation by Anne McCaffrey/66
Sam Moskowitz by Gary K. Wolfe/67
Remembering Sam Moskowitz by Marc Russell/67
LISTINGS
Forthcoming Books/32
British Forthcoming Books/42
Magazines Received:April/50 Books Received: April/51
British Books: March/59 Bestsellers/64
Photo Listing/74 Index to Ads/74
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People & Publishing/10 Locus Letters/67 Editorial Matters/68
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Distillations: Short Fiction
Reviews by Mark R. Kelly /1 3
F&SF 5/97; Interzone 4/97; Asimov’s 7/97; Realms of
Fantasy 4/97; Terra Incognita Spring ’97; On Spec
Spring ’97; Omni Online 4/97.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe /1 7
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual
Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed.; Year’s Best SF 2,
David G. Hartwell, ed.; Faraday’s Orphans, N. Lee
Wood; The Gaia Websters, Kim Antieau; The Dazzle
of Day, Molly Gloss.
Reviews by Faren Miller / 21
Revelations, Douglas E. Winter, ed.; Signs of Life, M.
John Harrison; Dogland, Will Shetterly; A Free Man
of Color, Barbara Hambly; The Experience of the
Night, Marcel Bealu; Lord of the Isles, David Drake.
Reviews by Russell Letson / 25
Contraband, George Foy; Destiny’s Road, Larry
Niven; RETRO-REVIEW: Beloved Son, George
Turner.
Reviews by Edward Bryant / 27
Fog Heart, Thomas Tessier; Kiss and Kill, Jeff Gelb
& Michael Garrett, eds.; Bad Karma, Andrew Harper;
SHORT TAKE: Bright Shadow, Elizabeth Forrest.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman/ 29
Lord of the Isles, David Drake; The Still, David
Feintuch; Expendable, James Alan Gardner; Bridge
of Valor, Anne Lesley Groell; The Seeds of Time,
Kay Kenyon; Magelord: The Awakening, Thomas
K. Martin; An Exchange of Hostages, Susan R.
Matthews; The Stone Prince, Fiona Patton; Crown
Duel, Sherwood Smith; Curses, Inc., Vivian Vande
Velde; The Broken Crown, Michelle West; The Duke
of Sumava, Sara J. Wrench; Merlin, Jane Yolen.
LOCUS June 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
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 or South America
via air mail are $70.00 for 12 issues, $120.00 for 24 issues.
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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
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must be drawn on a US bank and include computer encoding
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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
for each returned copy. We keep expired addresses
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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 2706X, 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 Oakland, 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 be sent by e-mail to Locus@Locusmag.com or
by fax to 510-339-6144.
Official Locus Web Sites. Locus Web Page: http://
www.Locusmag.com; Locus Poll Database:
wwwsff.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
4/87 to 6/96: http://home.aol.com/oneirovox or
CompuServe at GOSFLIT, Library 15, and maybe
other places
TABLE OF CONTENTS
June 1997 Issue 437 Vol. 38 No. 6
30th Year of Publication 18-Time Hugo Winner
MAIN STORIES
TSR Threatens Bankruptcy/8
Bantam Drops Star Wars Royalties/8
New British SF Magazine Announced/8
Dell Magazine Awards/8
Musicland in Trouble/8
THE DATA FILE
Announcements/9 On the Web/9
Awards News/9 Readings & Signings/9
Financial News/9 Worldcon News /9
Bookstore News/9 Book News/9
Magazine News/69 Rights & Options/69
Publications Received/69
Multi-Media Received/69 Catalogs Received/69
INTERVIEWS
Daniel Keyes: 40 Years of Algernon/4
John Kessel: No More Dr. Nice/6
CONVENTIONS
1997 Nebula Awards Weekend/46
OBITUARIES
Lou Stathis/66 David P. Usher/66
Ingrid Zierhut/66 James M. Carey/66
Sam Moskowitz: An Appreciation by Anne McCaffrey/66
Sam Moskowitz by Gary K. Wolfe/67
Remembering Sam Moskowitz by Marc Russell/67
LISTINGS
Forthcoming Books/32
British Forthcoming Books/42
Magazines Received:April/50 Books Received: April/51
British Books: March/59 Bestsellers/64
Photo Listing/74 Index to Ads/74
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People & Publishing/10 Locus Letters/67 Editorial Matters/68
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Distillations: Short Fiction
Reviews by Mark R. Kelly /1 3
F&SF 5/97; Interzone 4/97; Asimov’s 7/97; Realms of
Fantasy 4/97; Terra Incognita Spring ’97; On Spec
Spring ’97; Omni Online 4/97.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe /1 7
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual
Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed.; Year’s Best SF 2,
David G. Hartwell, ed.; Faraday’s Orphans, N. Lee
Wood; The Gaia Websters, Kim Antieau; The Dazzle
of Day, Molly Gloss.
Reviews by Faren Miller / 21
Revelations, Douglas E. Winter, ed.; Signs of Life, M.
John Harrison; Dogland, Will Shetterly; A Free Man
of Color, Barbara Hambly; The Experience of the
Night, Marcel Bealu; Lord of the Isles, David Drake.
Reviews by Russell Letson / 25
Contraband, George Foy; Destiny’s Road, Larry
Niven; RETRO-REVIEW: Beloved Son, George
Turner.
Reviews by Edward Bryant / 27
Fog Heart, Thomas Tessier; Kiss and Kill, Jeff Gelb
& Michael Garrett, eds.; Bad Karma, Andrew Harper;
SHORT TAKE: Bright Shadow, Elizabeth Forrest.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman/ 29
Lord of the Isles, David Drake; The Still, David
Feintuch; Expendable, James Alan Gardner; Bridge
of Valor, Anne Lesley Groell; The Seeds of Time,
Kay Kenyon; Magelord: The Awakening, Thomas
K. Martin; An Exchange of Hostages, Susan R.
Matthews; The Stone Prince, Fiona Patton; Crown
Duel, Sherwood Smith; Curses, Inc., Vivian Vande
Velde; The Broken Crown, Michelle West; The Duke
of Sumava, Sara J. Wrench; Merlin, Jane Yolen.
LOCUS June 1997/3
