Table of Contents, December 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
JONATHAN STRAHAN
Visiting Editor
WILLIAM G. CONTENTO
Special Projects
BETH GWINN
Photographer
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
December 1997 Issue 443 Vol. 39 No. 6
30th Year of Publication 19-Time Hugo Winner
MAIN STORIES
World Fantasy Awards Winners/7 King’s New Profit-Sharing Venture/8
New French SF Prize: La Tour Eiffel/8 Dune Prequels Draw $3 Million/8
British Fantasy Awards Winners/9 1997 Aurora Awards/9
THE DATA FILE
Print on Demand/9 Announcements/9 Readings & Signings/9
Bookselling News/9 Financial News/84 Legal News/84
Online News/84 Market Report/84 Multi-Media Update/84
Rights & Options/84 Book News /84 Multi-Media Received/84
Publications Received/84 Catalogs Received/85
INTERVIEWS
Gardner Dozois: Genre Hothouse/4
Boris Strugatsky: Nothing to Hide/57
INTERNATIONAL
2nd Annual Russian SF Writers Conference/51
SPECIAL FEATURE
A Canticle for Miller; or How I Met Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman
but not Walter M. Miller, Jr. by Terry Bisson/33
OBITUARIES
G. Harry Stine/78 G. Harry Stine: An Appreciation by Rick Cook/78
Conrad H. Ruppert/78 George Hay/79 H.B. Fyfe/79
Margaret Aldiss/79 Ross Pavlac/79
Bill Rotsler: An Appreciation by Elizabeth A. Lynn/79 Bill Rotsler: A Remembrance
by Tim Powers/82 Rotsler by Gregory Benford/82 Rotsler Gallery/80
LISTINGS
Forthcoming Books/36 British Forthcoming Books/46
Magazines Received: October/58 Books Received: October/59
British Books: September/71 Bestsellers/76
Photo Listing/86 Index to Ads/86
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People & Publishing/10 Locus Letters/82 Editorial Matters/83
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Distillations: Short Fiction
Reviews by Mark R. Kelly / 13
SF Age 11/97; Interzone 10/97; Omni Online 9/97;
Asimov’s 1/98.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe / 17
Mississippi Blues, Kathleen Ann Goonan; Cosm,
Gregory Benford; Secret Passages, Paul Preuss; Child
of the River, Paul J. McAuley; Earthling, Tony Daniel.
Reviews by Faren Miller / 21
Maximum Light, Nancy Kress; Darker Angels, S.P.
Somtow; The Mines of Behemoth, Michael Shea;
Black Mist and Other Japanese Futures, Orson Scott
Card & Keith Ferrell, eds.
Reviews by Russell Letson / 23
Einstein’s Bridge, John Cramer; Cosm, Gregory
Benford; Secret Passages, Paul Preuss; A King of
Infinite Space, Allen Steele.
Reviews by Edward Bryant / 25
Running With the Demon, Terry Brooks; Things Left
Behind, Gary Braunbeck; Leavings, P.D. Cacek;
SHORT TAKES: Black Walls, Red Glass, Jeffrey Thomas;
Doughnuts, James Blaylock; Website, Ray
Garton.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 29
Imposter, Valerie J. Freireich; Prisoner of Conscience,
Susan R. Matthews; The Masterharper of
Pern, Anne McCaffrey; Circle of Magic: Sandry’s
Book, Tamora Pierce; The Mind Reader, Jan Slepian;
The Changling Prince, Vivian Vande Velde; The Merro
Tree, Katie Waitman.
Short Reviews by Jonathan Strahan / 31
The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche and other
odd acquaintances, Peter S. Beagle; Cosm, Gregory
Benford; Circuit of Heaven, Dennis Danvers; Neil
Gaiman and Charles Vess’s Stardust, 1 of 4, Neil
Gaiman & Charles Vess; Beyond the Veil of Stars,
Robert Reed; Beneath the Gated Sky, Robert Reed;
Carlucci’s Heart, Richard Paul Russo.
LOCUS December 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
JONATHAN STRAHAN
Visiting Editor
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, PO.
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.
Individual subscriptions to A ustralia, Asia, o r 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 periodical
mail 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.
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
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, SlowGlassBooksG.RO. Box2708X, Melbourne,
Victoria, 3001, Australia. Bookseller discounts available.
Display advertising rates on request. ©1997 by Locus
Publications. We take no responsibility for unsolicited submissions.
P rinted 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 510-339-8144.
Official L ocus Web Sites. Locus Web Page: http://
w w w .L o c u sm a g .c om ; L o c u s Poll D a ta b a s e :
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
Locusts book reviews, interviews and obituaries from
4/87 to 6 /9 6 : h ttp ://o u rw o rld .c om p u s e rv e .c om /
homepages/carycwt or CompuServe at GOSFLIT,
Library 15, and maybe other places.
This magazine is printed on recycled paper
using soy-based inks.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
December 1997 Issue 443 Vol. 39 No. 6
30th Year of Publication 19-Time Hugo Winner
MAIN STORIES
World Fantasy Awards Winners/7 King’s New Profit-Sharing Venture/8
New French SF Prize: La Tour Eiffel/8 Dune Prequels Draw $3 Million/8
British Fantasy Awards Winners/9 1997 Aurora Awards/9
THE DATA FILE
Print on Demand/9 Announcements/9 Readings & Signings/9
Bookselling News/9 Financial News/84 Legal News/84
Online News/84 Market Report/84 Multi-Media Update/84
Rights & Options/84 Book News /84 Multi-Media Received/84
Publications Received/84 Catalogs Received/85
INTERVIEWS
Gardner Dozois: Genre Hothouse/4
Boris Strugatsky: Nothing to Hide/57
INTERNATIONAL
2nd Annual Russian SF Writers Conference/51
SPECIAL FEATURE
A Canticle for Miller; or How I Met Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman
but not Walter M. Miller, Jr. by Terry Bisson/33
OBITUARIES
G. Harry Stine/78 G. Harry Stine: An Appreciation by Rick Cook/78
Conrad H. Ruppert/78 George Hay/79 H.B. Fyfe/79
Margaret Aldiss/79 Ross Pavlac/79
Bill Rotsler: An Appreciation by Elizabeth A. Lynn/79 Bill Rotsler: A Remembrance
by Tim Powers/82 Rotsler by Gregory Benford/82 Rotsler Gallery/80
LISTINGS
Forthcoming Books/36 British Forthcoming Books/46
Magazines Received: October/58 Books Received: October/59
British Books: September/71 Bestsellers/76
Photo Listing/86 Index to Ads/86
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People & Publishing/10 Locus Letters/82 Editorial Matters/83
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Distillations: Short Fiction
Reviews by Mark R. Kelly / 13
SF Age 11/97; Interzone 10/97; Omni Online 9/97;
Asimov’s 1/98.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe / 17
Mississippi Blues, Kathleen Ann Goonan; Cosm,
Gregory Benford; Secret Passages, Paul Preuss; Child
of the River, Paul J. McAuley; Earthling, Tony Daniel.
Reviews by Faren Miller / 21
Maximum Light, Nancy Kress; Darker Angels, S.P.
Somtow; The Mines of Behemoth, Michael Shea;
Black Mist and Other Japanese Futures, Orson Scott
Card & Keith Ferrell, eds.
Reviews by Russell Letson / 23
Einstein’s Bridge, John Cramer; Cosm, Gregory
Benford; Secret Passages, Paul Preuss; A King of
Infinite Space, Allen Steele.
Reviews by Edward Bryant / 25
Running With the Demon, Terry Brooks; Things Left
Behind, Gary Braunbeck; Leavings, P.D. Cacek;
SHORT TAKES: Black Walls, Red Glass, Jeffrey Thomas;
Doughnuts, James Blaylock; Website, Ray
Garton.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 29
Imposter, Valerie J. Freireich; Prisoner of Conscience,
Susan R. Matthews; The Masterharper of
Pern, Anne McCaffrey; Circle of Magic: Sandry’s
Book, Tamora Pierce; The Mind Reader, Jan Slepian;
The Changling Prince, Vivian Vande Velde; The Merro
Tree, Katie Waitman.
Short Reviews by Jonathan Strahan / 31
The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche and other
odd acquaintances, Peter S. Beagle; Cosm, Gregory
Benford; Circuit of Heaven, Dennis Danvers; Neil
Gaiman and Charles Vess’s Stardust, 1 of 4, Neil
Gaiman & Charles Vess; Beyond the Veil of Stars,
Robert Reed; Beneath the Gated Sky, Robert Reed;
Carlucci’s Heart, Richard Paul Russo.
LOCUS December 1997 /3
