Table of Contents, February 1998
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CHARLES N. BROWN
Publi sher & Editor-in-Chief
MARIANNE S. JABLON
Managing Editor
FAREN C. MILLER
CAROLYN F. CUSHMAN
KIRSTEN GONG-WONG
Edi tors
EDWARD BRYANT
MARK R. KELLY
RUSSELL LETSON
GARY K. WOLFE
Contributing Editors
JONATHAN STRAHAN
Visiting Editor
WILLIAM G. CONTENTO
Spec ial Projects
BETH GWINN
Photographer
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
February 1998 Issue 445 Vol. 40 No. 2
31 st Year of Publication 19-Time Hugo Winner
MAIN STORIES
Analog, Asimov’s Change Format a Little/8 Clarke Knighted/8
1997 Clarke Award Nominees/8 SFWA Forms Byline Ethics Committee/8
1997 Philip K. Dick Award Nominees/8 1997 Nebula Preliminary Ballot/8
Hugo Nominating Ballot Available/9 1997 Chain Bestsellers/9
1998 World Fantasy Awards Judges/9
THE DATA FILE
Rushdie Redux/9 Announcements/9 Call For Papers/9
Readings & Signings/9 Legal Matters/73 Financial News/73
Publishing News/73 Awards News/73 Contest News/74
Book News/74 Magazine News/74 Convention Notes/74
Rights & Options/74 Online Update/74 Multi-Media Received/74
Publications Received/74 Catalogs Received/75
INTERVIEWS
Vonda N. McIntyre: To Hollywood and Beyond/4
Vincent Di Fate: The Art of the Future/6
1997: THE YEAR IN REVIEW
Recommended Reading by: Charles N. Brown/28 Gary K. Wolfe/29
Faren Miller/33 Russell Letson/33 John Clute/36
Edward Bryant/36 Carolyn Cushman/38 Jonathan Strahan/40
Gardner Dozois/40 Mark R. Kelly/41
1997 Recommended Reading List/42
1997 Book Summary/45
1997 Magazine Summary/48
PHOTO STORY
This is the Book(s),This is the Cover…/74
OBITUARIES
Shin’ichi Hoshi/72 Kjell Borgstrom/72
LISTINGS
Magazines Received: December/51
Books Received: December/54 British Books: November/64
Bestsellers/70 Photo Listing/82 Index to Ads/82
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People & Publishing/10 Locus Letters/72 Editorial Matters/72
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Distillations: Short Fiction
Reviews by Mark R. Kelly /1 3
Playboy 1 /98; Interzone 12/97; Omni Online 12/97; John
Kessel, The Pure Product; Analog 2/98; SF Age 1/98;
F&SF 1/98; Asimov’s 3/98.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe /1 5
A Scientific Romance, Ronald Wright; The Troika,
Stepan Chapman; Jack Faust, Michael Swanwick;
Prayer-Cushions of the Flesh, Robert Irwin; The
Moon Maid and Other Fantastic Adventures, R.
Garcia y Robertson.
Reviews by Faren Miller /1 7
Dying For It, Gardner Dozois, ed.; Where the Children
Cry, Jenny Jones; In the Garden of Iden, Kage
Baker; Ports of Call, Jack Vance; The Claus Effect,
David Nickle & Karl Schroeder.
Reviews by Russell Letson /1 9
Dinosaur Summer, Greg Bear; Maximum Light,
Nancy Kress.
Reviews by Edward Bryant / 21
One Day Closer to Death, Bradley Denton; Fear Nothing,
Dean Koontz; Hot Blood: Crimes of Passion,
Jeff Gelb & Michael Garrett, eds.; Terminal Frights,
Ken Abner, ed.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 23
Voices of Chaos, A.C. Crispin & Ru Emerson; Shards
of a Broken Crown, Raymond E. Feist; Commitment
Hour, James Alan Gardner; Hand of Prophecy, Severna
Park; Illegal Alien, Robert J. Sawyer; The Godmother’s
Web, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough; Iron Dawn, Matthew
Woodring Stover; Empire of the Ants, Bernard Werber.
Short Reviews by Jonathan Strahan / 25
The Fear Principle, B.A. Chepaitis; Signal to Noise,
Eric S. Nylund; Kirinyaga, Mike Resnick; The Arbitrary
Placement of Walls, Martha Soukup; Polymorph,
Scott Westerfeld
LOCUS February 1998 / 3
Publi sher & Editor-in-Chief
MARIANNE S. JABLON
Managing Editor
FAREN C. MILLER
CAROLYN F. CUSHMAN
KIRSTEN GONG-WONG
Edi tors
EDWARD BRYANT
MARK R. KELLY
RUSSELL LETSON
GARY K. WOLFE
Contributing Editors
JONATHAN STRAHAN
Visiting Editor
WILLIAM G. CONTENTO
Spec ial Projects
BETH GWINN
Photographer
Locus, The Newspaper of the Science Fiction Field (ISSN
0047-4959), is published monthly, at $4.95 per copy, by
Locus Publications, 34 Ridgewood Lane, Oakland CA
9461 1. Please send all mail to: Locus Publications, P.O.
Box 13305, Oakland CA 94661. Telephone (510) 339-
9196; (510) 339 -9 19 8 . FAX (510) 339 -8 14 4 . 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
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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 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. Periodical postage
paid at Oakland, California. POSTMASTER: Send address
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CA 94661.
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Science Fiction, Fantasy. A Horror 19B4-1996 http /
‘«ww sti nel/locus/. Unofficial Web Site’ Index to
Locus’b book reviews, interviews and obituaries from
4/87 to 6/96: hltp://home aol.com/oneirovox or
CompuServe at GOSFLIT. Library 15, and maybe
other places.
This magazine is printed on recycled paper
using soy-based inks.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
February 1998 Issue 445 Vol. 40 No. 2
31 st Year of Publication 19-Time Hugo Winner
MAIN STORIES
Analog, Asimov’s Change Format a Little/8 Clarke Knighted/8
1997 Clarke Award Nominees/8 SFWA Forms Byline Ethics Committee/8
1997 Philip K. Dick Award Nominees/8 1997 Nebula Preliminary Ballot/8
Hugo Nominating Ballot Available/9 1997 Chain Bestsellers/9
1998 World Fantasy Awards Judges/9
THE DATA FILE
Rushdie Redux/9 Announcements/9 Call For Papers/9
Readings & Signings/9 Legal Matters/73 Financial News/73
Publishing News/73 Awards News/73 Contest News/74
Book News/74 Magazine News/74 Convention Notes/74
Rights & Options/74 Online Update/74 Multi-Media Received/74
Publications Received/74 Catalogs Received/75
INTERVIEWS
Vonda N. McIntyre: To Hollywood and Beyond/4
Vincent Di Fate: The Art of the Future/6
1997: THE YEAR IN REVIEW
Recommended Reading by: Charles N. Brown/28 Gary K. Wolfe/29
Faren Miller/33 Russell Letson/33 John Clute/36
Edward Bryant/36 Carolyn Cushman/38 Jonathan Strahan/40
Gardner Dozois/40 Mark R. Kelly/41
1997 Recommended Reading List/42
1997 Book Summary/45
1997 Magazine Summary/48
PHOTO STORY
This is the Book(s),This is the Cover…/74
OBITUARIES
Shin’ichi Hoshi/72 Kjell Borgstrom/72
LISTINGS
Magazines Received: December/51
Books Received: December/54 British Books: November/64
Bestsellers/70 Photo Listing/82 Index to Ads/82
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People & Publishing/10 Locus Letters/72 Editorial Matters/72
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Distillations: Short Fiction
Reviews by Mark R. Kelly /1 3
Playboy 1 /98; Interzone 12/97; Omni Online 12/97; John
Kessel, The Pure Product; Analog 2/98; SF Age 1/98;
F&SF 1/98; Asimov’s 3/98.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe /1 5
A Scientific Romance, Ronald Wright; The Troika,
Stepan Chapman; Jack Faust, Michael Swanwick;
Prayer-Cushions of the Flesh, Robert Irwin; The
Moon Maid and Other Fantastic Adventures, R.
Garcia y Robertson.
Reviews by Faren Miller /1 7
Dying For It, Gardner Dozois, ed.; Where the Children
Cry, Jenny Jones; In the Garden of Iden, Kage
Baker; Ports of Call, Jack Vance; The Claus Effect,
David Nickle & Karl Schroeder.
Reviews by Russell Letson /1 9
Dinosaur Summer, Greg Bear; Maximum Light,
Nancy Kress.
Reviews by Edward Bryant / 21
One Day Closer to Death, Bradley Denton; Fear Nothing,
Dean Koontz; Hot Blood: Crimes of Passion,
Jeff Gelb & Michael Garrett, eds.; Terminal Frights,
Ken Abner, ed.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 23
Voices of Chaos, A.C. Crispin & Ru Emerson; Shards
of a Broken Crown, Raymond E. Feist; Commitment
Hour, James Alan Gardner; Hand of Prophecy, Severna
Park; Illegal Alien, Robert J. Sawyer; The Godmother’s
Web, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough; Iron Dawn, Matthew
Woodring Stover; Empire of the Ants, Bernard Werber.
Short Reviews by Jonathan Strahan / 25
The Fear Principle, B.A. Chepaitis; Signal to Noise,
Eric S. Nylund; Kirinyaga, Mike Resnick; The Arbitrary
Placement of Walls, Martha Soukup; Polymorph,
Scott Westerfeld
LOCUS February 1998 / 3
