Table of Contents, August 1998
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CHARLES N. BROWN
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
MARIANNE S. JABLON
Managing Editor
MARK R. KELLY
Electronic Editor
FAREN C. MILLER
CAROLYN F. CUSHMAN
KIRSTEN GO NG -WO NG
Editors
JEFFREY PRUCHER
Editorial Assistant
EDWARD BRYANT
RUSSELL LETSON
GARY K. WOLFE
Contributing Editors
WILLIAM G. CONTENTO
Special Projec ts
BETH GW IN N
Photographer
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
August 1998 Issue 451 Vol. 41 No. 2
31 st Year of Publication 19-Time Hugo Winner
MAIN STORIES
1998 Locus Awards Winners/7
Haldeman, Flynn Win Campbell, Sturgeon Memorial Awards/8
Bertelsmann-Random Deal Completed/8
Crown Files for Bankruptcy/8
HarperEntertainment Formed/8
First Turner Award Presented/8
THE DATA FILE
Alison Spedding Follow-up/9 Moskowitz Collection to be Auctioned/9
Commonwealth Sued Again/9 Italian Server Seized/9 Announcements/9
Readings & Signings/9 Awards News/9 Contest News/63
Publishing News/63 Legal News/63 Financial News/63
Magazine News/63 Online News/63 Market News/63
Multi-Media News/63 Multi-Media Received/63 Publications Received/63
INTERVIEWS
James Morrow: Having it Both Ways/4
Paul J. McAuley: Recreating the Future/6
LOCUS AWARDS
Locus Awards Banquet/7
Locus Poll Results/30
Best All-Time Novels/33
CONVENTIONS
1998 Bram Stoker Awards Weekend/38
OBITUARIES
Robert A.W. “Doc” Lowndes/62
Ralph Arnote/62
Paul G. Herkart/62
Ann Lyman Chancellor/62
LISTINGS
Magazines Received: June/42
Books Received: June/43 British Books: May/54
Bestsellers/60 Photo Listing/70 Index to Ads/70
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People & Publishing/10 Editorial Matters/62
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Distillations: Short Fiction
Reviews by Mark R. Kelly / 13
F&SF 7/98; Asimov’s 7/98; SF Age 7/98; Interzone 6/
98; The New Yorker 6/22 & 29/98.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe /1 7
Moonseed, Stephen Baxter; Traces, Stephen Baxter;
The Alien Years, Robert Silverberg; Dreaming in
Smoke, Tricia Sullivan; The Playboy Book of Science
Fiction, Alice K. Turner, ed.
Reviews by Faren Miller / 21
Heartfire, Orson Scott Card; Mockingbird, Sean
Stewart; Faces Under Water, Tanith Lee; The Knife
Thrower and other stories, Steven Millhauser; The
Best of Crank!, Brian Cholfin, ed.; Beaker’s Dozen,
Nancy Kress.
Reviews by Russell Letson / 23
Deepdrive, Alexander Jablokov; The Shapes of Their
Hearts, Melissa Scott; Proxies, Laura J. Mixon.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 25
The Wild Hunt: Vengeance Moon, Jocelin Foxe; Fire
Arrow, Edith Pattou; Monsters and My One True Love,
Dian Curtis Regan; A Tremor in the Bitter Earth, Katya
Reimann; Timeless, Shelly Thacker; Nameless
Magery, Delia Marshall Turner; The Uncrowned King,
Michelle West; Otherland: River of Blue Fire, Tad Williams.
Short Reviews by Preston Grassman / 27
The Alien Years, Robert Silverberg; Bloom, Wil
McCarthy; Shiva in Steel, Fred Saberhagen; Galilee,
Clive Barker; The Iron Lance, Stephen Lawhead; Fine
Prey, Scott Westerfeld.
LOCUS August 1998/3
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
MARIANNE S. JABLON
Managing Editor
MARK R. KELLY
Electronic Editor
FAREN C. MILLER
CAROLYN F. CUSHMAN
KIRSTEN GO NG -WO NG
Editors
JEFFREY PRUCHER
Editorial Assistant
EDWARD BRYANT
RUSSELL LETSON
GARY K. WOLFE
Contributing Editors
WILLIAM G. CONTENTO
Special Projec ts
BETH GW IN N
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
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 -8 14 4 . E-mail:
Locus@Locusmag.com. Individual subscriptions in the
i 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 o r Canada are $53.00 for 12 issues,
S95.00 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 A ustralia, 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
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must be drawn on a US bank and include computer encoding
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last issue on your present subscription. If you change your
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British Subscription Agent: Fantast (Medway) Ltd. RO. Box
23, Upwell Wisbech, CAMBS PE14 9BU, UK. Japanese
Subscription Agent: Yoshio Kobayashi, 3-3 4-1 4 -3 01 ,
Kitasenzoku,Ohta-ku, Tokyo, 145, Japan; Australian Subscription
Agent: Justin Ackroyd, Slow G lass Books G.P.O.
Box 2708X, 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 L ocus@Locusmag.com or
by fax to 510-339-8144.
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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 6/96: 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 oth e r places.
This magazine is printed on recycled paper
using soy-based inks.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
August 1998 Issue 451 Vol. 41 No. 2
31 st Year of Publication 19-Time Hugo Winner
MAIN STORIES
1998 Locus Awards Winners/7
Haldeman, Flynn Win Campbell, Sturgeon Memorial Awards/8
Bertelsmann-Random Deal Completed/8
Crown Files for Bankruptcy/8
HarperEntertainment Formed/8
First Turner Award Presented/8
THE DATA FILE
Alison Spedding Follow-up/9 Moskowitz Collection to be Auctioned/9
Commonwealth Sued Again/9 Italian Server Seized/9 Announcements/9
Readings & Signings/9 Awards News/9 Contest News/63
Publishing News/63 Legal News/63 Financial News/63
Magazine News/63 Online News/63 Market News/63
Multi-Media News/63 Multi-Media Received/63 Publications Received/63
INTERVIEWS
James Morrow: Having it Both Ways/4
Paul J. McAuley: Recreating the Future/6
LOCUS AWARDS
Locus Awards Banquet/7
Locus Poll Results/30
Best All-Time Novels/33
CONVENTIONS
1998 Bram Stoker Awards Weekend/38
OBITUARIES
Robert A.W. “Doc” Lowndes/62
Ralph Arnote/62
Paul G. Herkart/62
Ann Lyman Chancellor/62
LISTINGS
Magazines Received: June/42
Books Received: June/43 British Books: May/54
Bestsellers/60 Photo Listing/70 Index to Ads/70
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People & Publishing/10 Editorial Matters/62
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Distillations: Short Fiction
Reviews by Mark R. Kelly / 13
F&SF 7/98; Asimov’s 7/98; SF Age 7/98; Interzone 6/
98; The New Yorker 6/22 & 29/98.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe /1 7
Moonseed, Stephen Baxter; Traces, Stephen Baxter;
The Alien Years, Robert Silverberg; Dreaming in
Smoke, Tricia Sullivan; The Playboy Book of Science
Fiction, Alice K. Turner, ed.
Reviews by Faren Miller / 21
Heartfire, Orson Scott Card; Mockingbird, Sean
Stewart; Faces Under Water, Tanith Lee; The Knife
Thrower and other stories, Steven Millhauser; The
Best of Crank!, Brian Cholfin, ed.; Beaker’s Dozen,
Nancy Kress.
Reviews by Russell Letson / 23
Deepdrive, Alexander Jablokov; The Shapes of Their
Hearts, Melissa Scott; Proxies, Laura J. Mixon.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 25
The Wild Hunt: Vengeance Moon, Jocelin Foxe; Fire
Arrow, Edith Pattou; Monsters and My One True Love,
Dian Curtis Regan; A Tremor in the Bitter Earth, Katya
Reimann; Timeless, Shelly Thacker; Nameless
Magery, Delia Marshall Turner; The Uncrowned King,
Michelle West; Otherland: River of Blue Fire, Tad Williams.
Short Reviews by Preston Grassman / 27
The Alien Years, Robert Silverberg; Bloom, Wil
McCarthy; Shiva in Steel, Fred Saberhagen; Galilee,
Clive Barker; The Iron Lance, Stephen Lawhead; Fine
Prey, Scott Westerfeld.
LOCUS August 1998/3
