Table of Contents, February 2000
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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 Assistant
EDWARD BRYANT
KAREN HABER
MARIANNE JABLON
RUSSELL LETSON
JONATHAN STRAHAN
GARY K. WOLFE
Contributing Editors
WILLIAM G. CONTENTO
Computer Projec ts
BETH GWINN
Photographer
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
February 2000 Issue 469 Vol. 44 No. 2
33rd Year of Publication 2 1-Time Hugo Winner
MAIN STORIES
AOL and Time-Warner to Merge/8 2000 Philip K. Dick Award Nominees/8
1999 Preliminary Nebula Ballot/8 Nebula Awards Weekend 2000/8
THE DATA FILE
Hugo Nomination Form Issued/9 Mars Gets Its Own Flag/9
Microsoft and bn.com: E-Book Partners/9 Genie SFRTs Close/9
SF/Fantasy on Children’s “Best” List/9 Announcements/9 Contest News/68
Legal News/68 Awards News/68 International Awards News/68
Readings & Signing/69 Book News/69 International Book News/69
Financial News/69 International Rights/69
Publications Received/69 Catalogs Received/69
INTERVIEWS
Greg Bear: Continuing the Dialog/4
PHOTO STORIES
Pohl Breaks 80/9 Arthur C. Clarke at 82/73
1 9 9 9 : THE YEAR IN REVIEW
Recommended Reading
Charles N. Brown/28 Gary K. Wolfe/30
Faren Miller/31 Russell Letson/32 Edward Bryant/33
Carolyn Cushman/34 Jonathan Strahan/35 Karen Haber/36
Gardner Dozois/37 Mark R. Kelly/37 Michael Swanwick/39
1999 Recommended Reading List/40
1999 Magazine Summary/43
1999 Book Summary/46
OBITUARIES
David Duncan/72 David Duncan by Dave Duncan/72
Michael McDowell/72 Claude Vauziere/72 Keith [Forbes] Scott/72
Patrick O’Brian/72 Stephen Edward Poe/73
LISTINGS
Magazines Received: December/52
Books Received: December/53 British Books: November/64
Bestsellers/70 Photo Listing/78 Index to Ads/78
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People & Publishing/10 Locus Letters/73 Editorial Matters/74
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Distillations: Short Fiction
Reviews by Mark R. Kelly / 13
Asimov’s 1/2000; Playboy 1/2000; Interzone 11/99; Interzone
12/99.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe / 17
Galveston, Sean Stewart; Blind Waves, Steven Gould;
Candle, John Barnes; Midnight Robber, Nalo
Hopkinson.
Reviews by Faren Miller / 19
Midnight Robber, Nalo Hopkinson; Galveston, Sean
Stewart; Andy Warhol’s Dracula, Kim Newman;
SHORT TAKE: The Vaccinator, Michael Marshall
Smith.
Reviews by Russell Letson / 21
Foreign Bodies, Stephen Dedman; Candle, John
Barnes; Precursor, C.J. Cherryh.
Reviews by Edward Bryant / 23
Northern Frights 5, Don Hutchison, ed.; The
Wishmaster, Peter Atkins; Eternal Hearts, Lucy Taylor
& John Bolton; SHORT TAKES: The Sound of His
Horn and The King of the Lake, Sarban; The Sandman:
The Dream Hunters, Neil Gaiman & Yoshitaka
Amano; Waltz of Shadows, Joe R. Lansdale.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 25
Hader and the Colonel, Donna Barr; Sir Stalwart:
Book One of the King’s Daggers, Dave Duncan; The
Way Between the Worlds, Ian Irvine; Avalanch Soldier,
Susan R. Matthews; The Circle Opens: Magic
Steps, Tamora Pierce; The Taker’s Stone, Barbara
Timberlake Russell; Code of Conduct, Kristine Smith;
The Garden of the Stone, Victoria Strauss.
Not-So-Short Reviews by Jonathan Strahan / 27
Interstate Dreams, Neal Barrett, Jr.; Perpetuity Blues
and Other Stories, Neal Barrett, Jr.; The Robot’s
Twilight Companion, Tony Daniel; The Fourth World,
Dennis Danvers; Oceanspace, Allen Steele;
Galveston, Sean Stewart.
LOCUS February 2000 / 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 Assistant
EDWARD BRYANT
KAREN HABER
MARIANNE JABLON
RUSSELL LETSON
JONATHAN STRAHAN
GARY K. WOLFE
Contributing Editors
WILLIAM G. CONTENTO
Computer Projec ts
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: $46.00 for 12 issues, $85.00 for 24 issues via periodical
mail. In Canada: $50.00 for 12 issues, $95.00 for
24 issues via periodical mail. First class individual subscriptions
in the US: $56.00 for 12 issues, $100.00 for 24
issues. In Canada: $58.00 for 12 issues, $105.00 for 24
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us immediately. Periodical mail is not forwarded; it is either
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your subscription for each returned copy. We keep expired
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is a renewal or completely new. British Subscription
Agent: Fantast (Medway) Ltd. PO. 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 Glass Books G.P.O. Box 2708X,
Melbourne, Victoria, 3001, Australia. Bookseller discounts
available. Display advertising rates on request. ©2000 by
Locus Publications. We take no responsibility for unsolicited
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www.sff.net/locus/.
This magazine is printed on recycled paper
using soy-based inks.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
February 2000 Issue 469 Vol. 44 No. 2
33rd Year of Publication 2 1-Time Hugo Winner
MAIN STORIES
AOL and Time-Warner to Merge/8 2000 Philip K. Dick Award Nominees/8
1999 Preliminary Nebula Ballot/8 Nebula Awards Weekend 2000/8
THE DATA FILE
Hugo Nomination Form Issued/9 Mars Gets Its Own Flag/9
Microsoft and bn.com: E-Book Partners/9 Genie SFRTs Close/9
SF/Fantasy on Children’s “Best” List/9 Announcements/9 Contest News/68
Legal News/68 Awards News/68 International Awards News/68
Readings & Signing/69 Book News/69 International Book News/69
Financial News/69 International Rights/69
Publications Received/69 Catalogs Received/69
INTERVIEWS
Greg Bear: Continuing the Dialog/4
PHOTO STORIES
Pohl Breaks 80/9 Arthur C. Clarke at 82/73
1 9 9 9 : THE YEAR IN REVIEW
Recommended Reading
Charles N. Brown/28 Gary K. Wolfe/30
Faren Miller/31 Russell Letson/32 Edward Bryant/33
Carolyn Cushman/34 Jonathan Strahan/35 Karen Haber/36
Gardner Dozois/37 Mark R. Kelly/37 Michael Swanwick/39
1999 Recommended Reading List/40
1999 Magazine Summary/43
1999 Book Summary/46
OBITUARIES
David Duncan/72 David Duncan by Dave Duncan/72
Michael McDowell/72 Claude Vauziere/72 Keith [Forbes] Scott/72
Patrick O’Brian/72 Stephen Edward Poe/73
LISTINGS
Magazines Received: December/52
Books Received: December/53 British Books: November/64
Bestsellers/70 Photo Listing/78 Index to Ads/78
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People & Publishing/10 Locus Letters/73 Editorial Matters/74
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Distillations: Short Fiction
Reviews by Mark R. Kelly / 13
Asimov’s 1/2000; Playboy 1/2000; Interzone 11/99; Interzone
12/99.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe / 17
Galveston, Sean Stewart; Blind Waves, Steven Gould;
Candle, John Barnes; Midnight Robber, Nalo
Hopkinson.
Reviews by Faren Miller / 19
Midnight Robber, Nalo Hopkinson; Galveston, Sean
Stewart; Andy Warhol’s Dracula, Kim Newman;
SHORT TAKE: The Vaccinator, Michael Marshall
Smith.
Reviews by Russell Letson / 21
Foreign Bodies, Stephen Dedman; Candle, John
Barnes; Precursor, C.J. Cherryh.
Reviews by Edward Bryant / 23
Northern Frights 5, Don Hutchison, ed.; The
Wishmaster, Peter Atkins; Eternal Hearts, Lucy Taylor
& John Bolton; SHORT TAKES: The Sound of His
Horn and The King of the Lake, Sarban; The Sandman:
The Dream Hunters, Neil Gaiman & Yoshitaka
Amano; Waltz of Shadows, Joe R. Lansdale.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 25
Hader and the Colonel, Donna Barr; Sir Stalwart:
Book One of the King’s Daggers, Dave Duncan; The
Way Between the Worlds, Ian Irvine; Avalanch Soldier,
Susan R. Matthews; The Circle Opens: Magic
Steps, Tamora Pierce; The Taker’s Stone, Barbara
Timberlake Russell; Code of Conduct, Kristine Smith;
The Garden of the Stone, Victoria Strauss.
Not-So-Short Reviews by Jonathan Strahan / 27
Interstate Dreams, Neal Barrett, Jr.; Perpetuity Blues
and Other Stories, Neal Barrett, Jr.; The Robot’s
Twilight Companion, Tony Daniel; The Fourth World,
Dennis Danvers; Oceanspace, Allen Steele;
Galveston, Sean Stewart.
LOCUS February 2000 / 3
