Table of Contents, July 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 Projects
BETH GWINN
Photographer
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
July 2000 Issue 474 Vol. 45 No.1
33rd Year of Publication 2 1-Time Hugo Winner
MAIN STORIES
King Touts Online Honesty/10 Time Warner Joins E-Publishing/10
Online Sales Thriving/10 Microsoft SF Promotion/10
Asimov’s/Analog Awards /10 Potter Rampant/11
THE DATA FILE
Beast Bests Potter/11 Gophers Threatened/11 Worldcon Updates/11
Announcements/11 POD Publishing/11 Awards News/11 Legal News/74
Readings & Signings/74 Financial News/74 Book News/75
International Rights/75 Publications Received/75
Multi-Media Received/75 Catalogs Received/75
INTERVIEWS
Nancy Kress: Juggling Realities/6
David Marusek: Starship Alaska/8
CONVENTIONS
2000 Nebula Banquet/38
2000 World Horror Convention/Stoker Banquet/44
OBITUARIES
David R. Bunch/70 Joe Mayhew/70
Joe and Me by Gene Wolfe/70 Joe Mayhew: An Appreciation by Andy Duncan/71
Rex Vinson/71 Pat Graverson/71 Charlotte B. Hensley/71
LISTINGS
Conventions/48 Magazines Received: May/50
Books Received: May/51 British Books: April/64
Bestsellers/68 Photo Listing/78 Index to Ads/78
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People & Publishing/12 Locus Letters/71 Editorial Matters/72
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Distillations: Short Fiction
Reviews by Mark R. Kelly / 17
Sci Fiction 5/2000; Asimov’s 5/2000, 6/2000; SF Age
1/2000.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe / 21
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from
the African Diaspora, Sheree R. Thomas; Vanishing
Acts, Ellen Datlow, ed.; First Contract, Greg Costikyan;
Magic Terror, Peter Straub; At the Foot of the Story
Tree: An Inquiry into the Fiction of Peter Straub,
Bill Sheehan; Man of Two Worlds: My Life in Science
Fiction and Comics, Julius Schwartz with Brian M.
Thomsen .
Reviews by Faren Miller / 25
Perdido Street Station, China Mieville; Daemonomania,
John Crowley; Wild Angel, by Mary
Merriwell, by Max Merriwell, Pat Murphy; Jack Vance:
Critical Appreciation and a Bibliography, A.E.
Cunningham, ed.; SHORTTAKE: Sold Down the River,
Barbara Hambly.
Reviews by Russell Letson / 27
The Jazz, Melissa Scott; Probability Moon, Nancy
Kress; Skylife: Space Habitats in Story and Science,
Gregory Benford & George Zebrowski, eds.
Reviews by Edward Bryant / 29
The Man on the Ceiling, Steve Rasnic Tem & Melanie
Tem; Katastrophe, Randall Boyle; The Poker Club,
Ed Gorman.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 33
Changing Vision, Julie E. Czerneda; A Wolf at the
Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales, Ellen Datlow &
Terri Windling, eds.; Animist, Eve Forward; A Kiss of
Shadows, Laurell K. Hamilton; The Snow Queen,
Eileen Kernaghan; K ing Kelson’s Bride, Katherine
Kurtz; Law of the Wolf Tower, Tanith Lee; The
Gnomewrench in the Peopleworks, Nick O’Donohoe;
The Proof House, K.J. Parker; Flightless Falcon,
Mickey Zucker Reichert; The Queen of Attolia, Megan
Whalen Turner.
Not-So-Short Reviews by Jonathan Strahan / 35
Forests of the Heart, Charles de Lint; Blackwater
Days, Terry Dowling; Beluthahatchie and Other Stories,
Andy Duncan; Perdido Street Station, China
Mieville; Declare, Tim Powers.
LOCUS July 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 Projects
BETH GWINN
Photographer
Locus, The N ewspaper of the S cience 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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$75.00 for 12 issues, $125.00 for 24 issues. Individual
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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 o r completely new. British Subscription
Agent: Fantast (Medway) Ltd. P.O. 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. B ookseller discounts
available. Display advertising rates on request. ©2000 by
Locus Publications. We take no responsibility for unsolicited
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1999: www.Locusmag.com/index/; The Locus Index
to Science Fiction Awards is at www.Locusmag.com/
SFAwards/.
This magazine is printed on recycled paper
using soy-based inks.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
July 2000 Issue 474 Vol. 45 No.1
33rd Year of Publication 2 1-Time Hugo Winner
MAIN STORIES
King Touts Online Honesty/10 Time Warner Joins E-Publishing/10
Online Sales Thriving/10 Microsoft SF Promotion/10
Asimov’s/Analog Awards /10 Potter Rampant/11
THE DATA FILE
Beast Bests Potter/11 Gophers Threatened/11 Worldcon Updates/11
Announcements/11 POD Publishing/11 Awards News/11 Legal News/74
Readings & Signings/74 Financial News/74 Book News/75
International Rights/75 Publications Received/75
Multi-Media Received/75 Catalogs Received/75
INTERVIEWS
Nancy Kress: Juggling Realities/6
David Marusek: Starship Alaska/8
CONVENTIONS
2000 Nebula Banquet/38
2000 World Horror Convention/Stoker Banquet/44
OBITUARIES
David R. Bunch/70 Joe Mayhew/70
Joe and Me by Gene Wolfe/70 Joe Mayhew: An Appreciation by Andy Duncan/71
Rex Vinson/71 Pat Graverson/71 Charlotte B. Hensley/71
LISTINGS
Conventions/48 Magazines Received: May/50
Books Received: May/51 British Books: April/64
Bestsellers/68 Photo Listing/78 Index to Ads/78
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People & Publishing/12 Locus Letters/71 Editorial Matters/72
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Distillations: Short Fiction
Reviews by Mark R. Kelly / 17
Sci Fiction 5/2000; Asimov’s 5/2000, 6/2000; SF Age
1/2000.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe / 21
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from
the African Diaspora, Sheree R. Thomas; Vanishing
Acts, Ellen Datlow, ed.; First Contract, Greg Costikyan;
Magic Terror, Peter Straub; At the Foot of the Story
Tree: An Inquiry into the Fiction of Peter Straub,
Bill Sheehan; Man of Two Worlds: My Life in Science
Fiction and Comics, Julius Schwartz with Brian M.
Thomsen .
Reviews by Faren Miller / 25
Perdido Street Station, China Mieville; Daemonomania,
John Crowley; Wild Angel, by Mary
Merriwell, by Max Merriwell, Pat Murphy; Jack Vance:
Critical Appreciation and a Bibliography, A.E.
Cunningham, ed.; SHORTTAKE: Sold Down the River,
Barbara Hambly.
Reviews by Russell Letson / 27
The Jazz, Melissa Scott; Probability Moon, Nancy
Kress; Skylife: Space Habitats in Story and Science,
Gregory Benford & George Zebrowski, eds.
Reviews by Edward Bryant / 29
The Man on the Ceiling, Steve Rasnic Tem & Melanie
Tem; Katastrophe, Randall Boyle; The Poker Club,
Ed Gorman.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 33
Changing Vision, Julie E. Czerneda; A Wolf at the
Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales, Ellen Datlow &
Terri Windling, eds.; Animist, Eve Forward; A Kiss of
Shadows, Laurell K. Hamilton; The Snow Queen,
Eileen Kernaghan; K ing Kelson’s Bride, Katherine
Kurtz; Law of the Wolf Tower, Tanith Lee; The
Gnomewrench in the Peopleworks, Nick O’Donohoe;
The Proof House, K.J. Parker; Flightless Falcon,
Mickey Zucker Reichert; The Queen of Attolia, Megan
Whalen Turner.
Not-So-Short Reviews by Jonathan Strahan / 35
Forests of the Heart, Charles de Lint; Blackwater
Days, Terry Dowling; Beluthahatchie and Other Stories,
Andy Duncan; Perdido Street Station, China
Mieville; Declare, Tim Powers.
LOCUS July 2000 / 3
