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TABLE OF CONTENTS
May 1999 Issue 460 Vol. 42 No.5
32nd Year of Publication 20-Time Hugo Winner
MAIN STORIES
1999 Hugo Awards Nominations/9
1998 Stoker Awards Nominations/10
Geoff Ryman Wins Philip K. Dick Award/10
Harrison Wins First EvansAward/10
1999 Sturgeon Award Semi-Finalists/10 1999 BSFA Awards/10
1998 Publishers Weekly Bestsellers/11
Harry Comes Early; So Does Hannibal/11
1999 World Fantasy Awards Judge s/ll
THE DATA FILE
George Tu rner Fiction Prize Shortlist/11 Nebula Nominees Online/11
Announcements/11 Awards News/11 Worldcon News/73
Call for Papers/73 Readings & Signings/73 Publishing News/74
Bookstore News/74 Legal News/74 Financial News/74
INTERVIEWS
Lisa Goldstein: Underground Connections/6
Jack Dann & Janeen Webb: Gold Down-Under/8
CONVENTIONS
1999 World Horror Convention/37
1999 International Conference on the Fantastic/38
OBITUARIES
Jim Turner/68
James Turner: An Appreciation by Michael Swanwick/68
Jim Turner: An Appreciation by James Patrick Kelly/68
Jim Turner: An Appreciation by John KesseI/68
Appreciation of Jim Turner by Bob Eggleton/68
Adolfo Bioy Casares/69 Terry Hodel/69 Del Close/69
An Appreciation of Del Close by Nancy A. Collins/69
Nieson Himmel/69 Gary Louie/70
A Tribute to Buck Coulson by Jean Lamb/70
LISTINGS
Conventions/46 Magazines Received: March/48 Books Received: March/49
British Books: February/61 Bestsellers/66 Photo Listing/78 Index to Ads/78
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
SF Age 3/99; Asimov’s 3/99; F&S F 4/99; F&S F 5/99;
Amazing Spring ’99; Event Horizon 3/99.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe /1 9
Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson; Far Horizons,
Robert Silverberg, ed.; The SFWA Grand Masters: Volume
One, Frederik Pohl, ed.; Gray Heroes: Elder Tales
from Around the World, Jane Yolen, ed.
Reviews by Faren Miller / 23
Wrapt in Crystal, Sharon Shinn; Violent Stars, Phyllis
Gotlieb; Pangaea, Book I: Imperium Without End,
Lisa Mason; SHORT TAKE: The Marriage of Sticks,
Jonathan Carroll.
Reviews by Russell Letson / 25
Crytonomicon, Neal Stephenson; The Silicon Dagger,
Jack Williamson.
Reviews by Edward Bryant / 27
Choice of Evil, Andrew Vachss; Shadow of the Beast,
Margaret L. Carter; Storytellers, Julie Anne Parks;
The Kiss of Death, Anonymous, ed.; SHORTTAKES:
Seductions, Ray Garton; Red Range, Joe R. Lansdale.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 31
The Stars Asunder, Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald;
The Burning Stone, Kate Elliott; Patriarch’s
Hope, David Feintuch; The Quartered Sea, Tanya Huff;
The Wild Swans, Peg Kerr; Waterdance, Anne
Logston; The Queen of Denial, Selina Rosen; Refugees
from an Imaginary Country, Darrell Schweitzer;
Fearful Symmetries, S. Andrew Swann; Before &
After, Matthew Thomas.
Locus Looks at Art Books by Karen Haber / 33
Odd Nerdrum, Storyteller and Self-Revealer, Jan Ake
Pettersson; Graven Images, Paul Fleischman; The
Rabbits, John Marsden & Shaun Tan; Alice’s Adventures
in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll; SHORT
TAKES: Hansel and Gretel, Rika Lesser; Michael
Moorcock’s Elric: Stormbringer, P. Craig Russell;
Amazing Stories, Spring ’99.
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
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May 1999 Issue 460 Vol. 42 No.5
32nd Year of Publication 20-Time Hugo Winner
MAIN STORIES
1999 Hugo Awards Nominations/9
1998 Stoker Awards Nominations/10
Geoff Ryman Wins Philip K. Dick Award/10
Harrison Wins First EvansAward/10
1999 Sturgeon Award Semi-Finalists/10 1999 BSFA Awards/10
1998 Publishers Weekly Bestsellers/11
Harry Comes Early; So Does Hannibal/11
1999 World Fantasy Awards Judge s/ll
THE DATA FILE
George Tu rner Fiction Prize Shortlist/11 Nebula Nominees Online/11
Announcements/11 Awards News/11 Worldcon News/73
Call for Papers/73 Readings & Signings/73 Publishing News/74
Bookstore News/74 Legal News/74 Financial News/74
INTERVIEWS
Lisa Goldstein: Underground Connections/6
Jack Dann & Janeen Webb: Gold Down-Under/8
CONVENTIONS
1999 World Horror Convention/37
1999 International Conference on the Fantastic/38
OBITUARIES
Jim Turner/68
James Turner: An Appreciation by Michael Swanwick/68
Jim Turner: An Appreciation by James Patrick Kelly/68
Jim Turner: An Appreciation by John KesseI/68
Appreciation of Jim Turner by Bob Eggleton/68
Adolfo Bioy Casares/69 Terry Hodel/69 Del Close/69
An Appreciation of Del Close by Nancy A. Collins/69
Nieson Himmel/69 Gary Louie/70
A Tribute to Buck Coulson by Jean Lamb/70
LISTINGS
Conventions/46 Magazines Received: March/48 Books Received: March/49
British Books: February/61 Bestsellers/66 Photo Listing/78 Index to Ads/78
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
SF Age 3/99; Asimov’s 3/99; F&S F 4/99; F&S F 5/99;
Amazing Spring ’99; Event Horizon 3/99.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe /1 9
Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson; Far Horizons,
Robert Silverberg, ed.; The SFWA Grand Masters: Volume
One, Frederik Pohl, ed.; Gray Heroes: Elder Tales
from Around the World, Jane Yolen, ed.
Reviews by Faren Miller / 23
Wrapt in Crystal, Sharon Shinn; Violent Stars, Phyllis
Gotlieb; Pangaea, Book I: Imperium Without End,
Lisa Mason; SHORT TAKE: The Marriage of Sticks,
Jonathan Carroll.
Reviews by Russell Letson / 25
Crytonomicon, Neal Stephenson; The Silicon Dagger,
Jack Williamson.
Reviews by Edward Bryant / 27
Choice of Evil, Andrew Vachss; Shadow of the Beast,
Margaret L. Carter; Storytellers, Julie Anne Parks;
The Kiss of Death, Anonymous, ed.; SHORTTAKES:
Seductions, Ray Garton; Red Range, Joe R. Lansdale.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 31
The Stars Asunder, Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald;
The Burning Stone, Kate Elliott; Patriarch’s
Hope, David Feintuch; The Quartered Sea, Tanya Huff;
The Wild Swans, Peg Kerr; Waterdance, Anne
Logston; The Queen of Denial, Selina Rosen; Refugees
from an Imaginary Country, Darrell Schweitzer;
Fearful Symmetries, S. Andrew Swann; Before &
After, Matthew Thomas.
Locus Looks at Art Books by Karen Haber / 33
Odd Nerdrum, Storyteller and Self-Revealer, Jan Ake
Pettersson; Graven Images, Paul Fleischman; The
Rabbits, John Marsden & Shaun Tan; Alice’s Adventures
in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll; SHORT
TAKES: Hansel and Gretel, Rika Lesser; Michael
Moorcock’s Elric: Stormbringer, P. Craig Russell;
Amazing Stories, Spring ’99.
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,
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 or South America
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Lifetime subscriptions are ten times the one-year
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Subscription Agent: Yoshio Kobayashi, 3 -34-14-301,
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.
©1999 by Locus Publications. We take no responsibility
for unsolicited submissions. Printed in the United
States. Periodical postage paid at Oakland, California.
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Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror 1984-1996: http:/
/www.sff.net/locus/.
This magazine is printed on recycled paper
using soy-based inks.
LOCUS May 1 9 99 /3
