The March issue is the most popular Locus of the year -- with its lengthy list of Forthcoming Books for the next nine months. (Some selected forthcoming books are listed online.) The issue also has interviews with Gahan Wilson and Sean Stewart, a commentary piece by Jay Russell, news about Stephen King's next, unscheduled new book (in April), lots of awards news, and all the usual reviews and listings, including Bestsellers and New and Notable Books.

Locus Looks at Books

Distillations: Short Fiction Reviews by Mark R. Kelly

Amazing Stories Winter '99; Interzone 1/99; F&SF 1/99; SF Age 1/99; Asimov's 1/99; The New Yorker Feb 1 '99; Playboy 2/99.

Dreaming Down-Under, Jack Dann & Janeen Webb, eds.; The Dragons of Springplace, Robert Reed; Dakota Dreamin', Bill Johnson; reMix, Jon Courtenay Grimwood.

Cavalcade, Alison Sinclair; Dragonshadow, Barbara Hambly; Climb the Wind, Pamela Sargent; Dog Eat Dog, Jerry Jay Carroll; Minions of the Moon, Richard Bowes.

Tower of Dreams, Jamil Nasir; Hour of Judgment, Susan R. Matthews; Finity, John Barnes.

Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds.; Storm of the Century, Stephen King; Biofire, Ray Garton; Lynch: A Gothik Western, Nancy A. Collins; SHORT TAKE: Day of the Dead: An Annotated Babylon 5 Script, Neil Gaiman.

Angels Turn Their Backs, Margaret Buffie; Dark Nadir, Lisanne Norman; The Shadow of Albion, Andre Norton & Rosemary Edghill; The Sterkarm Handshake, Susan Price; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J.K.Rowling; Of Swords and Spells, Delia Marshall Turner; Never Trust a Dead Man, Vivian Vande Velde; Black on Black, K.D. Wentworth.