Table of Contents, February 1999
This is the scanned Table of Contents for the issue, embedded as a PDF. It is searchable and includes all of the titles reviewed in the month. These issues are not available digitally yet, but most can be ordered by contacting the Locus offices. Locus-ToC-1999-02
CHARLES N. BROWN
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
MARK R. KELLY
Electronic Editor-in-Chief
KIRSTEN GONG-WONG
Managing Editor
FAREN C. MILLER
CAROLYN F. CUSHMAN
Editors
EDWARD BRYANT
RUSSELL LETSON
GARY K. WOLFE
Contributing Editors
WILLIAM G. CONTENTO
Special 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
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 or South America
via air mail are $70.00 for 12 issues, $120.00 for 24 issues.
Individual subscriptions to Australia, Asia, o r 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 directly in US funds only. Overseas checks
-m ust 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
issues on your present subscription ($1.00 per
issue). The later date on the mailing label is that of the
last issue on your present subscription. If you change your
address, please notify us immediately. Periodical mail is
not forwarded; it is either returned o r destroyed. We subt
r a c t 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 o r completely new.
British Subscription Agent: Fantast (Medway) Ltd. PO. Box
23, Upwell Wisbech, CAMBS PE14 9BU, UK. Japanese
Subscription Agent: Yoshio Kobayashi, 3-34-14-301,
Kitasenzoku, O hta-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.
©1999 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. Subscriptions by phone are
available at 510-339-9198; 9:30AM to 5:00PM PST,
Monday – Friday.
Official Locus Web Sites. Locus Web Page: http://
w w w .L o c u sm a g .c om ; L o c u s Poll D a ta b a s e :
w w w .s ff.n e t/lo cu s /p o ll/in d e x .h tm l; Locus index to
Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror 1984-1996: http:/
/www.sff.net/locus/.
This magazine is printed on recycled paper
using soy-based inks.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
February 1999 Issue 457 Vol. 42 No. 2
32nd Year of Publication 20-Time Hugo Winner
MAIN STORIES
SFWA President Sawyer Resigns/8 1999 Philip K. Dick Award Nominees/8
1998 Preliminary Nebula Ballot/8 1999 Nebula Fiction Judges/8
THE DATA FILE
Hugo Nomination Ballot Available/9 Starlight 3 Open/9
Bookstores Protest B&N Sales Advantages/9
Richard Curtis Starts Online Service/9 Announcements/9
Call for Papers/9 Readings & Signings/9 Publishing News/73
International Awards News/73 Other Awards News/74
Contest News/74 Legal News/74 Financial News/74
Magazine News/74 International Rights/74
Market News/74 Publications Received/75
INTERVIEWS
Norman Spinrad: The Transformation Crisis/4
1998: THE YEAR IN REVIEW
Recommended Reading by: Charles N. Brown/30 Gary K. Wolfe/31
Faren Miller/33 Russell Letson/34 Edward Bryant/34
Carolyn Cushman/35 Karen Haber/36 Gardner Dozois/37
Michael Swanwick/37 Mark R. Kelly/38
1998 Recommended Reading List/40
1998 Book Summary/43
1998 Magazine Summary/47
OBITUARIES
Naomi Mitchison/72 Brian Moore/72 Robert Marasco/72
Jean-Claude Forest/72 Ron Turner/72 Richard Wright/72
LISTINGS
Magazines Received: December/49
Books Received: December/52 British Books: November/64
Bestsellers/70 Photo Listing/77 Index to Ads/77
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People & Publishing/10 Locus Letters/72 Editorial Matters/73
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Distillations: Short Fiction
Reviews by Mark R. Kelly / 13
The New Yorker Oct 26/Nov 2 ’98; North American
Review Nov/Dec ’98; Event Horizon 10/98; Event Horizon
11/98; Event Horizon 12/98; Crank! Number 8;
Analog 12/98; Interzone 12/98; L. Ron Hubbard Presents
Writers of the Future Volume XIV, Dave
Wolverton, ed.; Tesseracts6, Robert J. Sawyer & Carol
Clink, eds.; Starlight 2, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, ed.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe / 17
The Extremes, Christopher Priest; Finity, John Barnes;
Nanotech, Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois, eds.; Writer
at Large, Richard A. Lupoff; SHORT TAKE: The Far
North and Beyond: An Index to Canadian Science
Fiction and Fantasy in Genre Magazines and Other
Selected Periodicals of the Pulp Era, 1896-1955,
John Bell.
Reviews by Faren Miller / 21
A Clash of Kings, George R.R. Martin; Tower of the
King’s Daughter, Chaz Brenchley; A Cavern of Black
Ice, J.V. Jones.
Reviews by Russell Letson / 23
Luminous, Greg Egan; Apostrophes and Apocalypses,
John Barnes.
Reviews by Edward Bryant / 25
Dark Terrors 4, Stephen Jones & David Sutton, eds.;
Waiting, Frank M. Robinson; The Crow: Clash by
Night, Chet Williamson; Black Oak #2: The Hush of
Dark Wings, Charles Grant; Santa Steps Out, Robert
Devereaux; SHORT TAKE: Link, Walt Becker.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 29
T ra ito r ’s Sun, Marion Z im m e r Bradley; The
Dragonslayer’s Apprentice, David Calder; Fortress
of Owls, C.J. Cherryh; The Fabulous Fantoras, Book
1: Family Files, Adele Geras; Marlfox, Brian Jacques;
Changer, Jane Lindskold; Nimisha’s Ship, Anne
McCaffrey; The First Casualty, Mike Moscoe; The
Blood Jaguar, Michael H. Payne; Godshome, Robert
Sheckley.
LOCUS February 1999/3
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
MARK R. KELLY
Electronic Editor-in-Chief
KIRSTEN GONG-WONG
Managing Editor
FAREN C. MILLER
CAROLYN F. CUSHMAN
Editors
EDWARD BRYANT
RUSSELL LETSON
GARY K. WOLFE
Contributing Editors
WILLIAM G. CONTENTO
Special 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
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 or South America
via air mail are $70.00 for 12 issues, $120.00 for 24 issues.
Individual subscriptions to Australia, Asia, o r 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 directly in US funds only. Overseas checks
-m ust 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
issues on your present subscription ($1.00 per
issue). The later date on the mailing label is that of the
last issue on your present subscription. If you change your
address, please notify us immediately. Periodical mail is
not forwarded; it is either returned o r destroyed. We subt
r a c t 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 o r completely new.
British Subscription Agent: Fantast (Medway) Ltd. PO. Box
23, Upwell Wisbech, CAMBS PE14 9BU, UK. Japanese
Subscription Agent: Yoshio Kobayashi, 3-34-14-301,
Kitasenzoku, O hta-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.
©1999 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. Subscriptions by phone are
available at 510-339-9198; 9:30AM to 5:00PM PST,
Monday – Friday.
Official Locus Web Sites. Locus Web Page: http://
w w w .L o c u sm a g .c om ; L o c u s Poll D a ta b a s e :
w w w .s ff.n e t/lo cu s /p o ll/in d e x .h tm l; Locus index to
Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror 1984-1996: http:/
/www.sff.net/locus/.
This magazine is printed on recycled paper
using soy-based inks.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
February 1999 Issue 457 Vol. 42 No. 2
32nd Year of Publication 20-Time Hugo Winner
MAIN STORIES
SFWA President Sawyer Resigns/8 1999 Philip K. Dick Award Nominees/8
1998 Preliminary Nebula Ballot/8 1999 Nebula Fiction Judges/8
THE DATA FILE
Hugo Nomination Ballot Available/9 Starlight 3 Open/9
Bookstores Protest B&N Sales Advantages/9
Richard Curtis Starts Online Service/9 Announcements/9
Call for Papers/9 Readings & Signings/9 Publishing News/73
International Awards News/73 Other Awards News/74
Contest News/74 Legal News/74 Financial News/74
Magazine News/74 International Rights/74
Market News/74 Publications Received/75
INTERVIEWS
Norman Spinrad: The Transformation Crisis/4
1998: THE YEAR IN REVIEW
Recommended Reading by: Charles N. Brown/30 Gary K. Wolfe/31
Faren Miller/33 Russell Letson/34 Edward Bryant/34
Carolyn Cushman/35 Karen Haber/36 Gardner Dozois/37
Michael Swanwick/37 Mark R. Kelly/38
1998 Recommended Reading List/40
1998 Book Summary/43
1998 Magazine Summary/47
OBITUARIES
Naomi Mitchison/72 Brian Moore/72 Robert Marasco/72
Jean-Claude Forest/72 Ron Turner/72 Richard Wright/72
LISTINGS
Magazines Received: December/49
Books Received: December/52 British Books: November/64
Bestsellers/70 Photo Listing/77 Index to Ads/77
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People & Publishing/10 Locus Letters/72 Editorial Matters/73
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Distillations: Short Fiction
Reviews by Mark R. Kelly / 13
The New Yorker Oct 26/Nov 2 ’98; North American
Review Nov/Dec ’98; Event Horizon 10/98; Event Horizon
11/98; Event Horizon 12/98; Crank! Number 8;
Analog 12/98; Interzone 12/98; L. Ron Hubbard Presents
Writers of the Future Volume XIV, Dave
Wolverton, ed.; Tesseracts6, Robert J. Sawyer & Carol
Clink, eds.; Starlight 2, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, ed.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe / 17
The Extremes, Christopher Priest; Finity, John Barnes;
Nanotech, Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois, eds.; Writer
at Large, Richard A. Lupoff; SHORT TAKE: The Far
North and Beyond: An Index to Canadian Science
Fiction and Fantasy in Genre Magazines and Other
Selected Periodicals of the Pulp Era, 1896-1955,
John Bell.
Reviews by Faren Miller / 21
A Clash of Kings, George R.R. Martin; Tower of the
King’s Daughter, Chaz Brenchley; A Cavern of Black
Ice, J.V. Jones.
Reviews by Russell Letson / 23
Luminous, Greg Egan; Apostrophes and Apocalypses,
John Barnes.
Reviews by Edward Bryant / 25
Dark Terrors 4, Stephen Jones & David Sutton, eds.;
Waiting, Frank M. Robinson; The Crow: Clash by
Night, Chet Williamson; Black Oak #2: The Hush of
Dark Wings, Charles Grant; Santa Steps Out, Robert
Devereaux; SHORT TAKE: Link, Walt Becker.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 29
T ra ito r ’s Sun, Marion Z im m e r Bradley; The
Dragonslayer’s Apprentice, David Calder; Fortress
of Owls, C.J. Cherryh; The Fabulous Fantoras, Book
1: Family Files, Adele Geras; Marlfox, Brian Jacques;
Changer, Jane Lindskold; Nimisha’s Ship, Anne
McCaffrey; The First Casualty, Mike Moscoe; The
Blood Jaguar, Michael H. Payne; Godshome, Robert
Sheckley.
LOCUS February 1999/3
