Table of Contents, May 1999

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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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