Table of Contents, December 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 GONG-WONG
Editors
EDWARD BRYANT
RUSSELL LETSON
GARY K. WOLFE
Contribut ing Editors
WILLIAM G. CONTENTO
Special Project s
BETH GWINN
Photographer
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
December 1998 Issue 455 Vol. 41 No. 6
31 st Year of Publication 20-Time Hugo Winner
MAIN STORIES
World Fantasy Awards Winners/7
Barnes & Noble Buys Ingram/8 Jordan Hits #1/8
Greenberg Hits a Thousand/8 Orion Buys Cassell/8
Tor E-Books/9 E-Book Market Expands/9
THE DATA FILE
SFWA Reinstates Dramatic Nebula; Other Changes/9
Publishers Change Pub Dates/9 Other 20th-Century Bests Lists/9
Publishers Weekly ’98 Bests/9 Rushdie Update/9 Announcements/70
Calls for Papers/70 Worldcon News/70 Readings & Signings/70
International Awards News/70 Other Awards News/71 Publishing News/71
Book News/71 Financial News/71 Magazine News/71
International Rights/71 Publications Received/71 Catalogs Received/72
INTERVIEWS
Peter Straub: Seeing Double/4
Charles L. Harness: I Did It For The Money/6
OBITUARIES
Rachel Cosgrove Payes/68 Jose Paulo Paes/68
Ted Hughes/68 Eric Ambler/68 Robert Lewis Taylor/68
Bob Kane/68 Michael D. Weaver/68 Walter Kendrick/68
Ian Gunn/68 Lewis B. Martin/68
Frank D. McSherry Jr.: An Appreciation by Martin H. Greenberg/68
LISTINGS
Forthcoming Books/28 British Forthcoming Books/40
Magazines Received: October/46
Books Received: October/47 British Books: September/59
International Books and Magazines Received/61
Bestsellers/66 Photo Listing/74 Index to Ads/74
COMMENTARY
Will the Real Dodo Please Stand Up? by Steve Perry/25
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People & Publishing/10 Locus Letters/69 Editorial Matters/69
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Distillations: Short Fiction
Reviews by Mark Ft. Kelly /1 3
Leviathan Volume Two, Jeff VanderMeer & Rose
Secrest, eds., Asimov’s 10-11/98, Interzone 10/98; SF
Age 11/98; Analog 10/98.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe /1 5
Distraction, Bruce Sterling; Parable of the Talents,
Octavia E. Butler; Noir, K.W. Jeter; Blindness, Jose
Saramago; First Contacts: The Essential Murray
Leinster, Joe Rico, ed.
Reviews by Faren Miller /1 7
Parable of the Talents, Octavia E. Butler; The Castle
of the Winds, Michael Scott Rohan; Stardust, Neil
Gaiman; The Witching Time, Jean Stubbs; The One-
Armed Queen, Jane Yolen.
Reviews by Russell Letson / 19
Brute Orbits, George Zebrowski; Tea from an Empty
Cup, Pat Cadigan; The Invisible Country, Paul J.
McAuley.
Reviews by Edward Bryant / 21
Stardust, Neil Gaiman; Wildest Dreams, Norman
Partridge; Hot Blood X, Jeff Gelb & Michael Garrett,
eds.; SHORT TAKES: The Keys to D’Esperance, Chaz
Brenchley; The Night in Fog, David B. Silva.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 23
Beyond the Pale, Mark Anthony; The Gilded Chain,
Dave Duncan; This Alien Shore, C.S. Friedman; The
Path of Daggers, Robert Jordan; Five Alien Elves,
Gregory Maguire; Hour of Judgment, Susan R.
Matthews; Circle of Magic: Daja’s Book, Tamora
Pierce; Spirit Fox, Mickey Zucker Reichert & Jennifer
Wingert; Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone,
J.K. Rowling; The Face in the Mirror, Stephanie S.
Tolan.
LOCUS December 1998 / 3
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
MARIANNE S. JABLON
Managing Editor
MARK R. KELLY
Electronic Editor
FAREN C. MILLER
CAROLYN F. CUSHMAN
KIRSTEN GONG-WONG
Editors
EDWARD BRYANT
RUSSELL LETSON
GARY K. WOLFE
Contribut ing Editors
WILLIAM G. CONTENTO
Special Project s
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) 339-9198. 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 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
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British Subscription Agent: Fantast (Medway) Ltd. P.O. Box
23, Upwell Wisbech, CAMBS PE14 9BU, UK. Japanese
Subscription Agent: Yoshio Kobayashi, 3 -3 4-14-301,
Kitasenzoku, O hta-ku, Tokyo, 145, Japan; Australian Subscription
Agent: Justin Ackroyd, Slow G lass Books G.P.O.
Box2708X, Melbourne, Victoria, 3001, Australia. Bookseller
discounts available. Display advertising rates on
request. ©1998 by Locus Publications. We take no responsibility
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United States. Periodical postage paid at Oakland, California.
POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Locus
Publications, P.O. Box 13305, Oakland CA 94661.
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can be sent by e-mail to L ocus@Locusmag.com or
by fax to 510-339-8144. Subscriptions by phone are
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Monday – Friday.
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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 :
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Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror 1984-1996: http:/
/www.sff.net/locus/. Unoffic ia l 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 oth e r places.
This magazine is printed on recycled paper
using soy-based inks.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
December 1998 Issue 455 Vol. 41 No. 6
31 st Year of Publication 20-Time Hugo Winner
MAIN STORIES
World Fantasy Awards Winners/7
Barnes & Noble Buys Ingram/8 Jordan Hits #1/8
Greenberg Hits a Thousand/8 Orion Buys Cassell/8
Tor E-Books/9 E-Book Market Expands/9
THE DATA FILE
SFWA Reinstates Dramatic Nebula; Other Changes/9
Publishers Change Pub Dates/9 Other 20th-Century Bests Lists/9
Publishers Weekly ’98 Bests/9 Rushdie Update/9 Announcements/70
Calls for Papers/70 Worldcon News/70 Readings & Signings/70
International Awards News/70 Other Awards News/71 Publishing News/71
Book News/71 Financial News/71 Magazine News/71
International Rights/71 Publications Received/71 Catalogs Received/72
INTERVIEWS
Peter Straub: Seeing Double/4
Charles L. Harness: I Did It For The Money/6
OBITUARIES
Rachel Cosgrove Payes/68 Jose Paulo Paes/68
Ted Hughes/68 Eric Ambler/68 Robert Lewis Taylor/68
Bob Kane/68 Michael D. Weaver/68 Walter Kendrick/68
Ian Gunn/68 Lewis B. Martin/68
Frank D. McSherry Jr.: An Appreciation by Martin H. Greenberg/68
LISTINGS
Forthcoming Books/28 British Forthcoming Books/40
Magazines Received: October/46
Books Received: October/47 British Books: September/59
International Books and Magazines Received/61
Bestsellers/66 Photo Listing/74 Index to Ads/74
COMMENTARY
Will the Real Dodo Please Stand Up? by Steve Perry/25
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People & Publishing/10 Locus Letters/69 Editorial Matters/69
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Distillations: Short Fiction
Reviews by Mark Ft. Kelly /1 3
Leviathan Volume Two, Jeff VanderMeer & Rose
Secrest, eds., Asimov’s 10-11/98, Interzone 10/98; SF
Age 11/98; Analog 10/98.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe /1 5
Distraction, Bruce Sterling; Parable of the Talents,
Octavia E. Butler; Noir, K.W. Jeter; Blindness, Jose
Saramago; First Contacts: The Essential Murray
Leinster, Joe Rico, ed.
Reviews by Faren Miller /1 7
Parable of the Talents, Octavia E. Butler; The Castle
of the Winds, Michael Scott Rohan; Stardust, Neil
Gaiman; The Witching Time, Jean Stubbs; The One-
Armed Queen, Jane Yolen.
Reviews by Russell Letson / 19
Brute Orbits, George Zebrowski; Tea from an Empty
Cup, Pat Cadigan; The Invisible Country, Paul J.
McAuley.
Reviews by Edward Bryant / 21
Stardust, Neil Gaiman; Wildest Dreams, Norman
Partridge; Hot Blood X, Jeff Gelb & Michael Garrett,
eds.; SHORT TAKES: The Keys to D’Esperance, Chaz
Brenchley; The Night in Fog, David B. Silva.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 23
Beyond the Pale, Mark Anthony; The Gilded Chain,
Dave Duncan; This Alien Shore, C.S. Friedman; The
Path of Daggers, Robert Jordan; Five Alien Elves,
Gregory Maguire; Hour of Judgment, Susan R.
Matthews; Circle of Magic: Daja’s Book, Tamora
Pierce; Spirit Fox, Mickey Zucker Reichert & Jennifer
Wingert; Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone,
J.K. Rowling; The Face in the Mirror, Stephanie S.
Tolan.
LOCUS December 1998 / 3
