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L O C U S    M A G A Z I N E
November 1999
edited by Charles N. Brown
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    mailing date: 28 October 1999

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The November issue has an obituary of Marion Zimmer Bradley, with appreciations by Betsy Wollheim, Diana L. Paxson, Jennifer Roberson, Cherry Wilder, and Poul Anderson.

Also: reports on Aussiecon Three by Marianne S. Jablon, Chris Lawson, Robin Pen, and Mark R. Kelly.

The issue's interview is with Catherine Asaro.

News stories are about Günter Grass's Nobel Prize, the Hubbard Awards, and Fandom, Inc.

Also: obituaries of Charles D. Hornig, José J. Veiga, Eddie Jones, Frank B. Bryning, Joe Mayhar, and Tad Dembinski.

To be posted online from this issue:

  • Catherine Asaro interview excerpts
  • Bestsellers
  • New and Notable Books

    Reviews in the November issue:

    Distillations: Short Fiction Reviews by Mark R. Kelly

  • F&SF 10-11/99
  • Asimov's 10-11/99

    Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe

  • Bios, Robert Charles Wilson
  • The Conqueror's Child, Suzy McKee Charnas
    SHORT TAKES:
  • Deconstructing the Starships: Science, Fiction and Reality, Gwyneth Jones
  • Demand My Writing: Joanna Russ/Feminism/Science Fiction, Jeanne Cortiel
  • The Great War with Germany, 1890-1914, I.F. Clarke, ed.
  • Back in the Spaceship Again: Juvenile Science Fiction Series Since 1945, Karen Sands & Marietta Frank
  • Young Adult Science Fiction, C.W. Sullivan III
  • No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock, Marina Warner
  • Immortal Monster: The Mythological Evolution of the Fantastic Beast in Modern Fiction and Film, Joseph D. Andriano
  • The Robert Heinlein Interview and Other Heinleiniana, J. Neil Schulman
  • A Chesley Bonestell Space Art Chronology, Melvin H. Schuetz

    Reviews by Faren Miller

  • There and Back Again, by Max Merriwell, Pat Murphy
  • The Twist, Richard Calder
  • Saint Fire, Tanith Lee
  • The Stars Compel, Michaela Rossner
  • Memoranda, Jeffrey Ford
  • Indigo, Graham Joyce
    SHORT TAKES:
  • Leningrad Nights, Graham Joyce.

    Reviews by Russell Letson

  • All Tomorrow's Parties, William Gibson
  • Starfire, Charles Sheffield.

    Reviews by Edward Bryant

  • The Descent, Jeff Long
  • Nightmare's Disciple, Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.
    SHORT TAKES:
  • Hannibal, Thomas Harris
  • Noontide Night, Andrew Burt
  • Dragon's Fin Soup, S.P. Somtow
  • Black Oak: Winter Knight, Charles L. Grant
  • Old Fears, John Wooley & Ron Wolfe
  • The X-Files: Skin, Ben Mezrich.

    Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman

  • The Keep of Fire, Mark Anthony
  • Dragon and Phoenix, Joanne Bertin
  • Cauldron of Iniquity, Anne Lesley Groell
  • The River's Gift, Mercedes Lackey
  • Star Split, Kathryn Lasky
  • A Shadow on the Glass, Ian Levine
  • Vengeance of Dragons, Holly Lisle
  • Change of Command, Elizabeth Moon
  • Double Contact, James White.

    Not-So-Short Reviews by Jonathan Strahan

  • A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
  • End of Days, Dennis Danvers
  • Foreign Bodies, Stephen Dedman
  • All Tomorrow's Parties, William Gibson
  • A Red Heart of Memories, Nina Kiriki Hoffman
  • Say Goodbye, Lewis Shiner.

    Locus Looks at Art Books -- Reviews by Karen Haber

  • Fantasy Art of the New Millennium, The Best in Fantasy and SF Art Worldwide, Dick Jude
  • Transluminal: the Paintings of Jim Burns, Jim Burns
  • Apollo, An Eyewitness Account by Astronaut/Explorer Artist/Moonwalker Alan Bean, Alan Bean with Andrew Chaikin
    SHORT TAKES:
  • Five Children and It, E. Nesbit
  • Galerie Morpheus Fantastic Art Calendar 2000
  • H.R. Giger Calendar 2000.


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