Table of Contents, January 1999
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CHARLES N. BROWN
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
MARIANNE S. JABLON
Managing Editor
MARK R. KELLY
Electroni c Editor
FAREN C. MILLER
CAROLYN F. CUSHMAN
KIRSTEN GONG-WONG
Editors
EDWARD BRYANT
RUSSELL LETSON
GARY K. WOLFE
Contributing Editors
WILLIAM G. CONTENTO
Special Project s
BETH GWINN
Photographer
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
January 1999 Issue 456 Vol. 42 No. 1
32nd Year of Publication 20-Time Hugo Winner
MAIN STORIES
Moorcock Returns to Elric/10 Gollancz and Millennium SF Merged/10
Carroll & Graf Sold/10 Sawyer Wins Second UPC Prize/10
THE DATA FILE
FTC To Review B&N and Bertelsmann Deals/11 Four Kings Over Three Nines/11
Alice Goes for $ 1.54 Million/11 DNA Expands/11
Yet More 1998 Recommended Lists/11 Announcements/11
Readings & Signings/11 International Awards News/72
Other Awards News/72 Publishing News/72 Online News/72
Legal News/72 Book News/73 Financial News/73 Bookstore News/74
International Rights/73 Multi-Media Update/73
Publications Received/74 Multi-Media Received/74
INTERVIEWS
Melissa Scott: Of Masks & Metaphors/6
Nalo Hopkinson: Many Perspectives/8
PHOTO STORIES
Happy Pentabirthday!/13 An Amazing Coincidence/73 Love & Awards/73
CONVENTIONS
1998 World Fantasy Convention/38
INTERNATIONAL
SF in Portugal: Frontiers/30 SF in Spain: Hispacon/32
SF in France: Utopia ’9 8 /3 4 SF in Israel: Icon98/35
OBITUARIES
Ian Wallace/70 Wayland Drew/70
Vincent Clarke/70 John L. Millard/70
LISTINGS
Convention Listings/46 Magazines Received: November/50
Books Received: November/51 British Books: October/63
Bestsellers/68 Photo Listing/78 Index to Ads/78
COMMENTARY
A Course in Life, A Foot in Two Worlds, Brian W.Aldiss/27
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People & Publishing/12 Locus Letters/70 Editorial Matters/71
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Distillations: Short Fiction
Reviews by Mark R. Kelly /1 5
Lamps on the Brow, James Cahill, ed., Interzone 11/
98, Amazing Stories Fall/98, F&SF 12/98, Asimov’s 12/
98, Analog 11/98.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe /1 7
The Crook Factory, Dan Simmons; Waiting, Frank M.
Robinson; When the Wind Blows, James Patterson.
Reviews by Faren Miller /1 9
Tower of Dreams, Jamil Nasir; King Rat, China
Mieville; Octoberland, A.A. Attanasio; Flesh Guitar,
Geoff Nicholson; Carpe Jugulum, Terry Pratchett;
SHORT TAKE; Suspicion, Barbara Rogan.
Reviews by Russell Letson / 21
The Golden Globe, John Varley; The Good Old Stuff,
Gardner Dozois, ed.; The Good New Stuff, Gardner
Dozois, ed.
Reviews by Edward Bryant / 23
Seize the Night, Dean Koontz; Imagination Fully Dilated,
Alan M. Clark & Elizabeth Engstrom, eds.; Angels
on Fire, Nancy A. Collins; SHORT TAKE: Thong
the Barbarian Meets the Cycle Sluts of Saturn, Steve
Perry & Michael Reaves.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 25
Tower of the King’s Daughter, Chaz Brenchley; The
Border, Marina Fitch; Vigilant, James Alan Gardner;
Out of Their Minds, Carol Matas & Perry Nodelman;
Carpe Jugulum, Terry Pratchett; The Lady in the
Loch, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough; The Divided, Katie
Waitman; Worlds of Honor, David Weber, ed.
LOCUS January 1999/3
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
MARIANNE S. JABLON
Managing Editor
MARK R. KELLY
Electroni c Editor
FAREN C. MILLER
CAROLYN F. CUSHMAN
KIRSTEN GONG-WONG
Editors
EDWARD BRYANT
RUSSELL LETSON
GARY K. WOLFE
Contributing Editors
WILLIAM G. CONTENTO
Special Project s
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
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 tor 24 issues via periodical
mail. In Canada: $48.00 tor 12 issues, $90.00 for
24 issues via periodical mail. First class individual subscriptions
in the US or Canada are $53.00 tor 12 issues,
$95.00 tor 24 issues. Individual overseas subscriptions
are $48.00 tor 12 issues, $90.00 for 24 issues via sea
mail. Individual subscriptions to Europe or South America
via air mail are $70.00 for 12 issues, $120.00 for 24 issues.
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Lifetime subscriptions are ten times the one-year
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Make checks payable to Locus Publications. All subscriptions
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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, 3-34-14-301,
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. ©1999 by Locus Publications. We take no responsibility
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United States. Periodical postage paid at Oakland, California.
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Publications, P.O. Box 13305, Oakland CA 94661.
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w w w .s ff.ne t/locu s /po ll/in d ex .h tm l; Locus index to
Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror 1984-1996: http:/
/w w w .s ff.ne t/locu s /. Unofficial Web Site: Index to
Locus’s book reviews, interviews and obituaries from
4/87 to 6 /9 6 : 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
January 1999 Issue 456 Vol. 42 No. 1
32nd Year of Publication 20-Time Hugo Winner
MAIN STORIES
Moorcock Returns to Elric/10 Gollancz and Millennium SF Merged/10
Carroll & Graf Sold/10 Sawyer Wins Second UPC Prize/10
THE DATA FILE
FTC To Review B&N and Bertelsmann Deals/11 Four Kings Over Three Nines/11
Alice Goes for $ 1.54 Million/11 DNA Expands/11
Yet More 1998 Recommended Lists/11 Announcements/11
Readings & Signings/11 International Awards News/72
Other Awards News/72 Publishing News/72 Online News/72
Legal News/72 Book News/73 Financial News/73 Bookstore News/74
International Rights/73 Multi-Media Update/73
Publications Received/74 Multi-Media Received/74
INTERVIEWS
Melissa Scott: Of Masks & Metaphors/6
Nalo Hopkinson: Many Perspectives/8
PHOTO STORIES
Happy Pentabirthday!/13 An Amazing Coincidence/73 Love & Awards/73
CONVENTIONS
1998 World Fantasy Convention/38
INTERNATIONAL
SF in Portugal: Frontiers/30 SF in Spain: Hispacon/32
SF in France: Utopia ’9 8 /3 4 SF in Israel: Icon98/35
OBITUARIES
Ian Wallace/70 Wayland Drew/70
Vincent Clarke/70 John L. Millard/70
LISTINGS
Convention Listings/46 Magazines Received: November/50
Books Received: November/51 British Books: October/63
Bestsellers/68 Photo Listing/78 Index to Ads/78
COMMENTARY
A Course in Life, A Foot in Two Worlds, Brian W.Aldiss/27
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People & Publishing/12 Locus Letters/70 Editorial Matters/71
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Distillations: Short Fiction
Reviews by Mark R. Kelly /1 5
Lamps on the Brow, James Cahill, ed., Interzone 11/
98, Amazing Stories Fall/98, F&SF 12/98, Asimov’s 12/
98, Analog 11/98.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe /1 7
The Crook Factory, Dan Simmons; Waiting, Frank M.
Robinson; When the Wind Blows, James Patterson.
Reviews by Faren Miller /1 9
Tower of Dreams, Jamil Nasir; King Rat, China
Mieville; Octoberland, A.A. Attanasio; Flesh Guitar,
Geoff Nicholson; Carpe Jugulum, Terry Pratchett;
SHORT TAKE; Suspicion, Barbara Rogan.
Reviews by Russell Letson / 21
The Golden Globe, John Varley; The Good Old Stuff,
Gardner Dozois, ed.; The Good New Stuff, Gardner
Dozois, ed.
Reviews by Edward Bryant / 23
Seize the Night, Dean Koontz; Imagination Fully Dilated,
Alan M. Clark & Elizabeth Engstrom, eds.; Angels
on Fire, Nancy A. Collins; SHORT TAKE: Thong
the Barbarian Meets the Cycle Sluts of Saturn, Steve
Perry & Michael Reaves.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 25
Tower of the King’s Daughter, Chaz Brenchley; The
Border, Marina Fitch; Vigilant, James Alan Gardner;
Out of Their Minds, Carol Matas & Perry Nodelman;
Carpe Jugulum, Terry Pratchett; The Lady in the
Loch, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough; The Divided, Katie
Waitman; Worlds of Honor, David Weber, ed.
LOCUS January 1999/3
