Table of Contents, June 1999
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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
CYNTHIA RUSCZYK
Editorial Trainee
EDWARD BRYANT
RUSSELL LETSON
GARY K. WOLFE
Contributing Editors
WILLIAM G. CONTENTO
Special Projects
BETH GWINN
Photographer
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
June 1999 Issue 461 Vol. 42 No.6
32nd Year of Publication 20-Time Hugo Winner
MAIN STORIES
1998 Nebula Awards Winners/9
HarperPrism list Slashed Again/10 Aural Ellison Show/10
Pulpless Adds Pulp/10 ibooks/10
Analog and Asimov’s Readers Awards/10
1998 Chesley Awards Nominations/10
BEA ’99: Show Us the Celebrities!/11
THE DATA FILE
Carroll in Poland/11 LPC to Buy Carol Publishing/11
Canadian Mass Wholesaler Announced/11
Online Booksellers: Discounts,Investments on the Rise/11
New Electronic Consumer Website/11 Announcements/11
Awards News/11 International Awards News/73 Worldcons Update/73
Readings & Signings/74 Financial News/74 Book News/74
Rights/74 Magazine News/74 Publications Received/74
INTERVIEWS
Frank M. Robinson: Preserver of Pulp/4
Howard V Hendrix: Secular Mystic/6
CONVENTIONS
1999 Nebula Awards Banquet/9
OBITUARIES
Stephen Becker/68 Stephen Becker: An Appreciation by Joe Haldeman/68
Shel Silverstein/68 Carl Johan Holzhausen/68
Deaths Discovered: Paul J. Willis, Ralph Noyes/68
Jim Turner: An Appreciation by Greg Bear/68
A Tribute to Jim Turner by Robert Reed/69
LISTINGS
Forthcoming Boooks/32 British Forthcoming Books/44
Magazines Received: April/50 Books Received: April/51
British Books: March/61 Bestsellers/66
Photo Listing/78 Index to Ads/78
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People & Publishing/12 Locus Letters/69 Editorial Matters/69
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Distillations: Short Fiction
Reviews by Mark R. Kelly /1 5
Asimov’s 5/99; Asimov’s 4/99; SF Age 5/99; Interzone
4/99.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe /1 9
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual
Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed.; Year’s Best SF 4,
David G. Hartwell, ed.; Dark Cities Underground, Lisa
Goldstein; Seven for the Apocalypse, Kit Reed; The
Dictionary of Science Fiction Places, Brian
Stableford.
Reviews by Faren Miller / 23
The Shadow of Ararat, Thomas Harlan; The Sea
Came In at Midnight, Steve Erickson; Dark Cities
Underground, Lisa Goldstein; The Sub: A Study in
Witchcraft, Thomas M. Disch; ThiGMOO, Eugene
Byrne.
Reviews by Russell Letson / 25
Down There in Darkness, George Turner; Operation
Luna, Poul Anderson; SHORT TAKE: Deep Time,
Gregory Benford.
Reviews by Edward Bryant / 27
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Stephen King;
Brass, Robert J. Conley; Voodoo Child, Michael
Reaves; Wild Horses, Brian Hodge; SHORT TAKE:
The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made, Chris Gore.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 31
Crystal Sage, Kara Dalkey; The Vampire Files: The
Dark Sleep, P.N. Elrod; Teek, Steven Krane; The Black
Swan, Mercedes Lackey; The Terrorists of Irustan,
Louise Marley; The Gnomewrench in the
Dwarfworks, Nick O’Donohoe; The Granite Shield,
Fiona Patton; Circle of Magic: Briar’s Book, Tamora
Pierce; News from the Edge: Vampires of Vermont,
Mark Sumner.
LOCUS June 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
CYNTHIA RUSCZYK
Editorial Trainee
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 p eriodical
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 o r South America
via air mail are $70.00 for 12 issues, $120.00 for 24 issues.
Individual subscriptions to A ustralia, 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
rate. Institutional subscriptions are $3.00 extra per year.
Make checks payable to Locus Publications. All subscriptions
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British Subscription Agent: Fantast (Medway) Ltd. RO. 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 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 tn the United
States. Periodical postage paid at Oakland, California.
POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Locus Publications,
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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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
June 1999 Issue 461 Vol. 42 No.6
32nd Year of Publication 20-Time Hugo Winner
MAIN STORIES
1998 Nebula Awards Winners/9
HarperPrism list Slashed Again/10 Aural Ellison Show/10
Pulpless Adds Pulp/10 ibooks/10
Analog and Asimov’s Readers Awards/10
1998 Chesley Awards Nominations/10
BEA ’99: Show Us the Celebrities!/11
THE DATA FILE
Carroll in Poland/11 LPC to Buy Carol Publishing/11
Canadian Mass Wholesaler Announced/11
Online Booksellers: Discounts,Investments on the Rise/11
New Electronic Consumer Website/11 Announcements/11
Awards News/11 International Awards News/73 Worldcons Update/73
Readings & Signings/74 Financial News/74 Book News/74
Rights/74 Magazine News/74 Publications Received/74
INTERVIEWS
Frank M. Robinson: Preserver of Pulp/4
Howard V Hendrix: Secular Mystic/6
CONVENTIONS
1999 Nebula Awards Banquet/9
OBITUARIES
Stephen Becker/68 Stephen Becker: An Appreciation by Joe Haldeman/68
Shel Silverstein/68 Carl Johan Holzhausen/68
Deaths Discovered: Paul J. Willis, Ralph Noyes/68
Jim Turner: An Appreciation by Greg Bear/68
A Tribute to Jim Turner by Robert Reed/69
LISTINGS
Forthcoming Boooks/32 British Forthcoming Books/44
Magazines Received: April/50 Books Received: April/51
British Books: March/61 Bestsellers/66
Photo Listing/78 Index to Ads/78
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People & Publishing/12 Locus Letters/69 Editorial Matters/69
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Distillations: Short Fiction
Reviews by Mark R. Kelly /1 5
Asimov’s 5/99; Asimov’s 4/99; SF Age 5/99; Interzone
4/99.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe /1 9
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual
Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed.; Year’s Best SF 4,
David G. Hartwell, ed.; Dark Cities Underground, Lisa
Goldstein; Seven for the Apocalypse, Kit Reed; The
Dictionary of Science Fiction Places, Brian
Stableford.
Reviews by Faren Miller / 23
The Shadow of Ararat, Thomas Harlan; The Sea
Came In at Midnight, Steve Erickson; Dark Cities
Underground, Lisa Goldstein; The Sub: A Study in
Witchcraft, Thomas M. Disch; ThiGMOO, Eugene
Byrne.
Reviews by Russell Letson / 25
Down There in Darkness, George Turner; Operation
Luna, Poul Anderson; SHORT TAKE: Deep Time,
Gregory Benford.
Reviews by Edward Bryant / 27
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Stephen King;
Brass, Robert J. Conley; Voodoo Child, Michael
Reaves; Wild Horses, Brian Hodge; SHORT TAKE:
The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made, Chris Gore.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 31
Crystal Sage, Kara Dalkey; The Vampire Files: The
Dark Sleep, P.N. Elrod; Teek, Steven Krane; The Black
Swan, Mercedes Lackey; The Terrorists of Irustan,
Louise Marley; The Gnomewrench in the
Dwarfworks, Nick O’Donohoe; The Granite Shield,
Fiona Patton; Circle of Magic: Briar’s Book, Tamora
Pierce; News from the Edge: Vampires of Vermont,
Mark Sumner.
LOCUS June 1999/3
