Table of Contents, April 1998
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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
Contributing Editors
WILLIAM G. CONTENTO
Special Projects
BETH GWINN
Photographer
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
April 1998 Issue 447 Vol. 40 No. 4
31 st Year of Publication 19-Time Hugo Winner
MAIN STORIES
Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot/8
1997 Tiptree Awards/8
1998 Philip K. Dick Award Judges/8
Bertelsmann to Sell Books Online/8
Pooh Causes Diplomatic Flap/8
Asimov’s Son Arrested/8
Lauriat’s Files for Bankruptcy/8
THE DATA FILE
Announcements/9 Readings & Signings/9
Awards News/9 Contest News/9
Book News/9 Legal News/9 Financial News/9
Bookstore News/9 Magazine News/72 Rights & Options/72
Online News/72 Publications Received/72
Multi-Media Received/74 Catalogs Received/74
INTERVIEWS
Tanith Lee: Love & Death & Publishers/4
Robert Reed: Beneath Nebraska Skies/6
INTERNATIONAL
SF in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan/32
SF in the Czech Republic/34
SF in Russian/35 SF in Canada/36
SF in Japan/37 SF in Poland/37 SF in Sweden/38
OBITUARIES
Sean A. Moore/70 Sean Moore: An Appreciation by Edward Bryant/70
Peter Nilson/70 Ernst Junger/70
Archie Goodwin/70 Marie-Louise von Franz/70
LISTINGS
International Books and Magazines Received/39
Magazines Received: February/42
Books Received: February/43 British Books: January/63
Bestsellers/68 Photo Listing/78 Index to Ads/78
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People & Publishing/10 Locus Letters/70 Editorial Matters/71
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Distillations: Short Fiction
Reviews by Mark R. Kelly / 13
Asimov’s 5/98; SF Age 3/98; Interzone 2/98; Interzone
3/98; F&SF 3/98; Analog 5/98.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe /1 7
Nebula Awards 32, Jack Dann, ed.; Slippage, Harlan
Ellison; 253, Geoff Ryman; Secret Realms, Tom Cool;
Helm, Steven Gould.
Reviews by Faren Miller / 21
The Night We Buried Road Dog, Jack Cady; Black
Glass, Karen Joy Fowler; Nebula Awards 32, Jack
Dann, ed.; Days, James Lovegrove; One of Us, Michael
Marshall Smith; Homebody, Orson Scott Card; SHORT
TAKE: The Alleluia Files, Sharon Shinn.
Reviews by Edward Bryant / 25
Dark Terrors 3, Stephen Jones & David Sutton, eds.;
Hitler’s Angel, Kris Rusch; Painted in Blood, Lucy
Taylor; SHORT TAKES: Red Right Hand, Norman
Partridge; Fugue on a G-String, Peter Crowther; Nice
Guys Finish Last, Gary Jonas.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 29
Zones, Damien Broderick & Rory Barnes, Juniper,
Gentian, & Rosemary, Pamela Dean; Godheads,
Emily Devenport; Met By Moonlight, Rosemary
Edghill; Summon the Keeper, Tanya Huff; Freedom’s
Challenge, Anne McCaffrey; Fire Angels, Jane
Routley; Warrior Princesses, Elizabeth Ann
Scarborough & Martin H. Greenberg, eds.; Manjinn
Moon, Denise Vitola.
LOCUS April 1 9 9 8 /3
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
Contributing Editors
WILLIAM G. CONTENTO
Special Projects
BETH GWINN
Photographer
Locus, The Newspaper of the S cience Fiction Field (ISSN
0047-4959), is published monthly, at $4.95 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 -9 19 8 . FAX (510) 339-8144. E-mail:
Locus@Locusmag.bom. 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, or A frica
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 d irectly 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
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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
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. B ritish 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.PO. Box2708X, Melbourne,
Victoria, 3001, Australia. Bookseller discounts available.
Display advertising rates on request. ©1998 by Locus Publications.
We take no responsibility for unsolicited submissions.
Printed in the United States. Periodical postage
paid at Oakland, California. 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 Locus Web Sites. Locus Web Page: h ttp://
w w w .L o c u sm a g .c om ; L o c u s P o ll 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
Locus?s book reviews, interviews and obituaries from
4/87 to 6/96: 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
April 1998 Issue 447 Vol. 40 No. 4
31 st Year of Publication 19-Time Hugo Winner
MAIN STORIES
Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot/8
1997 Tiptree Awards/8
1998 Philip K. Dick Award Judges/8
Bertelsmann to Sell Books Online/8
Pooh Causes Diplomatic Flap/8
Asimov’s Son Arrested/8
Lauriat’s Files for Bankruptcy/8
THE DATA FILE
Announcements/9 Readings & Signings/9
Awards News/9 Contest News/9
Book News/9 Legal News/9 Financial News/9
Bookstore News/9 Magazine News/72 Rights & Options/72
Online News/72 Publications Received/72
Multi-Media Received/74 Catalogs Received/74
INTERVIEWS
Tanith Lee: Love & Death & Publishers/4
Robert Reed: Beneath Nebraska Skies/6
INTERNATIONAL
SF in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan/32
SF in the Czech Republic/34
SF in Russian/35 SF in Canada/36
SF in Japan/37 SF in Poland/37 SF in Sweden/38
OBITUARIES
Sean A. Moore/70 Sean Moore: An Appreciation by Edward Bryant/70
Peter Nilson/70 Ernst Junger/70
Archie Goodwin/70 Marie-Louise von Franz/70
LISTINGS
International Books and Magazines Received/39
Magazines Received: February/42
Books Received: February/43 British Books: January/63
Bestsellers/68 Photo Listing/78 Index to Ads/78
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People & Publishing/10 Locus Letters/70 Editorial Matters/71
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Distillations: Short Fiction
Reviews by Mark R. Kelly / 13
Asimov’s 5/98; SF Age 3/98; Interzone 2/98; Interzone
3/98; F&SF 3/98; Analog 5/98.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe /1 7
Nebula Awards 32, Jack Dann, ed.; Slippage, Harlan
Ellison; 253, Geoff Ryman; Secret Realms, Tom Cool;
Helm, Steven Gould.
Reviews by Faren Miller / 21
The Night We Buried Road Dog, Jack Cady; Black
Glass, Karen Joy Fowler; Nebula Awards 32, Jack
Dann, ed.; Days, James Lovegrove; One of Us, Michael
Marshall Smith; Homebody, Orson Scott Card; SHORT
TAKE: The Alleluia Files, Sharon Shinn.
Reviews by Edward Bryant / 25
Dark Terrors 3, Stephen Jones & David Sutton, eds.;
Hitler’s Angel, Kris Rusch; Painted in Blood, Lucy
Taylor; SHORT TAKES: Red Right Hand, Norman
Partridge; Fugue on a G-String, Peter Crowther; Nice
Guys Finish Last, Gary Jonas.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 29
Zones, Damien Broderick & Rory Barnes, Juniper,
Gentian, & Rosemary, Pamela Dean; Godheads,
Emily Devenport; Met By Moonlight, Rosemary
Edghill; Summon the Keeper, Tanya Huff; Freedom’s
Challenge, Anne McCaffrey; Fire Angels, Jane
Routley; Warrior Princesses, Elizabeth Ann
Scarborough & Martin H. Greenberg, eds.; Manjinn
Moon, Denise Vitola.
LOCUS April 1 9 9 8 /3
