Table of Contents, January 2000

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CHARLES N. BROWN
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
TABLE OF CONTENTS
January 2000 Issue 468 Vol. 44 No.l
33rd Year of Publication 2 1-Time Hugo Winner
MAIN STORIES
MARK R. KELLY
Elect roni c Editor-in-Chief
KIRSTEN GONG-WONG
Managing Editor
FAREN C. MILLER
CAROLYN F. CUSHMAN
Edi tors
CYNTHIA RUSCZYK
Editorial Assistant
EDWARD BRYANT
KAREN HABER
RUSSELL LETSON
JONATHAN STRAHAN
GARY K. WOLFE
Contributing Editors
WILLIAM G. CONTENTO
Computer Project s
BETH GWINN
Photographer
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1999 UPC Award/10
Best SF for the Millennium/10
Best SF for 1999/10
BOMC and Literary Guild Partnership/10
Galaxy Online/11
Babbage Press Formed/11
THE DATA FILE
Borders Discounts Change/11 Sci Fi Radio Coming/11
Publishing News/11 Announcements/11 Legal News/11
Readings & Signings/72 Call for Papers/72 Market News/72
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International Rights/73 Online News/73 Publications Received/73
INTERVIEWS
Gregory Benford: Measuring the Future/6
Geoffrey A. Landis: Hands-On Science/8
CONVENTIONS
1999 World Fantasy Convention/38
OBITUARIES
Art Saha/68 Arthur Saha, My Father by Heidi Elizabeth Saha/68
Ludek Pesek/68 Joseph Heller/68 Paul Bowles/68 Quentin Crisp/68
Frank MacShane/68 George V. Higgins/68 Clarissa Luard/68
Death Announced: Ignacio Romeo Perez/69
Howard Browne Remembered by Robert Silverberg/69
LISTINGS
Magazines Received: November/44
Books Received: November/45 British Books: October/60
Bestsellers/66 Photo Listing/78 Index to Ads/78
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People & Publishing/12 Editorial Matters/70
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Pelan, ed.; Mojo Hand, Greg Kihn; The Crow:Temple
of the Night, S.P. Somtow; SHORT TAKES: Forever
Azathoth and Other Horrors, Peter Cannon.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 33
Sultan of the Moon and Stars, Tom Arden; Typhon’s
Children, Toni Anzetti; Learning Fear, B.A. Chepaitis;
The Truthsayer’s Apprentice, Deborah Christian; Cold
Iron, Sophie Masson; Clementine, Sophie Masson;
Crazy Jack, Donna Jo Napoli; The Fifth Elephant,
Terry Pratchett; Sky Rider, Nancy Springer.
Locus Looks at Art Books
Reviews by Karen Haber / 35
Spirit Country: Contemporary Australian Aboriginal
Art, Jennifer Isaacs; Spectrum 6: The Best in
Contemporary Fantastic Art, Cathy Fenner & Arnie
Fenner, eds.; Science Fiction of the 20th Century:
An Illustrated History, Frank M. Robinson; Sandman:
The Dream Hunters, Neil Gaiman; SHORT TAKES: A
Midsummer Night’s Faery Tale, Wendy Fro ud & Terri
Windling; Opus: Volume One: 1999, Barry Windsor-
Smith; Legacy: Selected Paintings & Drawings by
the Grand Master of Fantastic Art, Frank Frazetta; A
Boy Named Giotto, Paolo Guarnieri; Jack and the
Beanstalk, Ann Keay Beneduce.
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Distillations: Short Fiction
Reviews by Mark R. Kelly / 17
Asimov’s 12/99; Analog 10/99; Analog 11/99; Analog
12/99; Interzone 9/99; Interzone 10/99; Amazing Stories
Fall ’99; Century #5, Winter 2000; F&SF 12/99.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe / 21
Crescent City Rhapsody, Kathleen Ann Goonan; Foreign
Bodies, Stephen Dedman; Timeline, Michael
Crichton; Algernon, Charlie and I: A Writer’s Journey,
Daniel Keyes; Science Fiction of the 20th Century:
An Illustrated History, Frank M. Robinson.
Reviews by Faren Miller / 25
Strange Travelers, Gene Wolfe; Enchanted Night,
Steven Millhauser; The Book of Ash #1: A Secret History,
Mary Gentle; The Book of Ash #2: Carthage
Ascendant, Mary Gentle; The Quiet Invasion, Sarah
Zettel; Knight of the Demon Queen, Barbara Hambly;
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Reviews by Russell Letson / 29
Forever Free, Joe Haldeman; The Memory of Fire,
George Foy; SHORT TAKE: In the Beginning…Was
the Command Line, Neal Stephenson.
Reviews by Edward Bryant / 31
The Last Continent: New Tales of Zothique; John
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