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May 1999
edited by Charles N. Brown
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    mailing date: 29 April 1999

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The May issue features interviews with Jack Dann & Janeen Webb and Lisa Goldstein. News focuses on awards nominations (Hugo, Stoker, Sturgeon) and winners (BSFA, Philip K. Dick). There's also coverage of the 1999 World Horror Convention and the 1999 International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, both with lots of photos, including the traditional gather-round-the-pool shot at the Florida site of the ICFA.

Also, an obituary of Arkham House/Golden Gryphon editor and publisher Jim Turner, with appreciations by Michael Swanwick, James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel, and Bob Eggleton.

Plus the usual news, reviews, and listings -- including a new column of art book reviews by Karen Haber.

Also posted online from this issue:
  • Bestsellers
  • New and Notable Books
    Reviews in this issue:

    Distillations: Short Fiction Reviews by Mark R. Kelly
    SF Age 3/99; Asimov’s 3/99; F&SF 4/99; F&SF 5/99; Amazing Spring ’99; Event Horizon 3/99.

    Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe
    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
    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
    Crytonomicon    , Neal Stephenson; The Silicon Dagger, Jack Williamson.

    Reviews by Edward Bryant
    Choice of Evil    , Andrew Vachss; Shadow of the Beast, Margaret L. Carter; Storytellers, Julie Anne Parks; The Kiss of Death, Anonymous, ed.; SHORT TAKES: Seductions, Ray Garton; Red Range, Joe R. Lansdale.

    Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman
    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
    Odd Nerdrum, Storyteller and Self-Revealer    , Jan Åke 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.

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