Table of Contents, January 1998
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
January 1998 Issue 444 Vol. 40 No. 1
31 st Year of Publication 19-Time Hugo Winner
MAIN STORIES
Publishing Changes Top Spots/8
1998 Nebula Awards Banquet/8
Sawyer & Stevens-Arce Share UPC SF Prize/8
Recommended Lists: 1997/9
THE DATA FILE
Penguin High on Internet/9 Announcements/9 Readings & Signings/9
Financial News/9 Awards News/76 Court Cases/76 Magazine News/76
Market News/76 Book News/76 Multi-Media Update/76
Multi-Media Received/76 Publications Received/76 Catalogs Received/76
INTERVIEWS
Robin Hobb: Behind the Scenes/4
Sarah Zettel: Matters of Faith/6
CONVENTIONS
1997 World Fantasy Convention/30
INTERNATIONAL
SF in Germany/36 SF in Poland/37
SF in the Czech Republic – Bohemiacon 1997/39
SF in Cuba. Not./39 SF in Ethiopia/40
SF in Indonesia/41 SF in Brazil/42 SF in Argentina/43
SF in Ireland, Eurocon 1997/44 SF in Bulgaria, 1996-1997/45
OBITUARIES
Donald R. Bensen/74 Kathy Acker/74 Owen Barfield/74
Daniel Farson/74 Jim Kepner/74
Jean Brust/74 Billie Lindsay Madle/74
LISTINGS
International Books and Magazines Received/48
Convention Listings/52 Magazines Received: November/54
Books Received: November/55 British Books: October/66
Bestsellers/72 Photo Listing/82 Index to Ads/82
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People & Publishing/10 QuotePage/27 Locus Letters/74 Editorial Matters/75
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Distillations: Short Fiction
Reviews by Mark R. Kelly /1 3
Odyssey Sep/Oct 97 (Issue 0); Odyssey Nov/Dec 97
(Issue 1); Analog 1/98; Realms of Fantasy 12/97; Interzone
11 /97; Asimov’s 2/98; F&SF 12/97.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe /1 5
To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis; Diaspora,
Greg Egan; Circuit of Heaven, Dennis Danvers; His
Share of Glory: The Complete Short Science Fiction
of C.M. Kornbluth, C.M. Kornbluth.
Reviews by Faren Miller /1 7
Halfway Human, Carolyn Ives Gilman; War in Heaven,
David Zindell; Icefalcon’s Quest, Barbara Hambly; The
Night Watch, Sean Stewart; Phoenix Cafe, Gwyneth
Jones; The Book of Knights, Yves Meynard.
Reviews by Russell Letson /1 9
Mississippi Blues, Kathleen Ann Goonan; The Siege
of Eternity, Frederik Pohl; Putting Up Roots, Charles
Sheffield.
Reviews by Edward Bryant / 21
Darker Angels, S.P. Somtow; Second Coming Attractions,
David Prill; Robert Bloch’s Psychos, Robert
Bloch, ed.; SHORT TAKE: “Repent, Harlequin!” Said
the Ticktockman, Harlan Ellison, illustrations by Rick
Berry.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 23
In the Garden of Iden, Kage Baker; Prince of Dogs,
Kate Elliott; Ship of Magic, Robin Hobb; Kindred
Rites, Katharine Eliska Kimbriel; Lost Days, Mike
Moscoe; My Son, the Wizard, Christopher Stasheff;
The Arm of the Stone, Victoria Strauss; News from
the Edge: Insanity, Illinois, Mark Sumner; Between
the Rivers, Harry Turtledove; Touched by the Gods,
Lawrence Watt-Evans; Magister, Jonathan Wylie.
Short Reviews by Jonathan Strahan / 25
Dinosaur Summer, Greg Bear; Someplace to be Flying,
Charles de Lint; Hand of Prophecy, Severna Park;
Ghost Seas, Steven Utley; The Resurrected Man,
Sean Williams.
CHARLES N. BROWN
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
MARIANNE S. JABLON
Managing Editor
FAREN C. MILLER
CAROLYN F. CUSHMAN
KIRSTEN GONG-WONG
Editors
EDWARD BRYANT
MARK R. KELLY
RUSSELL LETSON
GARY K WOLFE
Contribut ing Editors
JONATHAN STRAHAN
Visiting Editor
WILLIAM G. CONTENTO
Special Projects
BETH GWINN
Photographer
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January 1998 Issue 444 Vol. 40 No. 1
31 st Year of Publication 19-Time Hugo Winner
MAIN STORIES
Publishing Changes Top Spots/8
1998 Nebula Awards Banquet/8
Sawyer & Stevens-Arce Share UPC SF Prize/8
Recommended Lists: 1997/9
THE DATA FILE
Penguin High on Internet/9 Announcements/9 Readings & Signings/9
Financial News/9 Awards News/76 Court Cases/76 Magazine News/76
Market News/76 Book News/76 Multi-Media Update/76
Multi-Media Received/76 Publications Received/76 Catalogs Received/76
INTERVIEWS
Robin Hobb: Behind the Scenes/4
Sarah Zettel: Matters of Faith/6
CONVENTIONS
1997 World Fantasy Convention/30
INTERNATIONAL
SF in Germany/36 SF in Poland/37
SF in the Czech Republic – Bohemiacon 1997/39
SF in Cuba. Not./39 SF in Ethiopia/40
SF in Indonesia/41 SF in Brazil/42 SF in Argentina/43
SF in Ireland, Eurocon 1997/44 SF in Bulgaria, 1996-1997/45
OBITUARIES
Donald R. Bensen/74 Kathy Acker/74 Owen Barfield/74
Daniel Farson/74 Jim Kepner/74
Jean Brust/74 Billie Lindsay Madle/74
LISTINGS
International Books and Magazines Received/48
Convention Listings/52 Magazines Received: November/54
Books Received: November/55 British Books: October/66
Bestsellers/72 Photo Listing/82 Index to Ads/82
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People & Publishing/10 QuotePage/27 Locus Letters/74 Editorial Matters/75
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Distillations: Short Fiction
Reviews by Mark R. Kelly /1 3
Odyssey Sep/Oct 97 (Issue 0); Odyssey Nov/Dec 97
(Issue 1); Analog 1/98; Realms of Fantasy 12/97; Interzone
11 /97; Asimov’s 2/98; F&SF 12/97.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe /1 5
To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis; Diaspora,
Greg Egan; Circuit of Heaven, Dennis Danvers; His
Share of Glory: The Complete Short Science Fiction
of C.M. Kornbluth, C.M. Kornbluth.
Reviews by Faren Miller /1 7
Halfway Human, Carolyn Ives Gilman; War in Heaven,
David Zindell; Icefalcon’s Quest, Barbara Hambly; The
Night Watch, Sean Stewart; Phoenix Cafe, Gwyneth
Jones; The Book of Knights, Yves Meynard.
Reviews by Russell Letson /1 9
Mississippi Blues, Kathleen Ann Goonan; The Siege
of Eternity, Frederik Pohl; Putting Up Roots, Charles
Sheffield.
Reviews by Edward Bryant / 21
Darker Angels, S.P. Somtow; Second Coming Attractions,
David Prill; Robert Bloch’s Psychos, Robert
Bloch, ed.; SHORT TAKE: “Repent, Harlequin!” Said
the Ticktockman, Harlan Ellison, illustrations by Rick
Berry.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 23
In the Garden of Iden, Kage Baker; Prince of Dogs,
Kate Elliott; Ship of Magic, Robin Hobb; Kindred
Rites, Katharine Eliska Kimbriel; Lost Days, Mike
Moscoe; My Son, the Wizard, Christopher Stasheff;
The Arm of the Stone, Victoria Strauss; News from
the Edge: Insanity, Illinois, Mark Sumner; Between
the Rivers, Harry Turtledove; Touched by the Gods,
Lawrence Watt-Evans; Magister, Jonathan Wylie.
Short Reviews by Jonathan Strahan / 25
Dinosaur Summer, Greg Bear; Someplace to be Flying,
Charles de Lint; Hand of Prophecy, Severna Park;
Ghost Seas, Steven Utley; The Resurrected Man,
Sean Williams.
CHARLES N. BROWN
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
MARIANNE S. JABLON
Managing Editor
FAREN C. MILLER
CAROLYN F. CUSHMAN
KIRSTEN GONG-WONG
Editors
EDWARD BRYANT
MARK R. KELLY
RUSSELL LETSON
GARY K WOLFE
Contribut ing 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, P.O.
Box 13305, Oakland CA 94661. Telephone (510) 339-
9196; (510) 339-9198. FAX (510) 339-8144. E-mail;
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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
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395.00 for 24 issues. Individual overseas subscriptions
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Yoshio Kobayashi, 3-34-14-301, Kitasenzoku, Ohta-ku,
Tokyo, 145, Japan; Australian Subscription Agent: Justin
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Victoria, 3001, Australia. Bookseller discounts available.
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/www.sff.net/locus/. Unofficial Web Site: Index to
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CompuServe at GOSFLIT, Library 15, and maybe
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