Locus Online

TOC Thread
<< prev | next >>

JUNE ISSUE

Profile
Complete ToC
McAuley Interview
Hoffman Interview
Locus Bestsellers
New & Notable

June Issue Thread
<< prev | next >>

Mailing Date:
30 May 2002

ABOUT LOCUS

Overview
FAQ

Subscribe/Renew
Change Address Form
Order Back Issues
E-mail Locus
Contact Information

Indexes to the Magazine:
Book Reviews
Interviews

Related Pages
The Locus Index to Science Fiction
 Site Directory

The Locus Index to Science Fiction Awards


 
External Links

Links Portal

 


THE NEWSPAPER OF THE SCIENCE FICTION FIELD


Table of Contents

June 2002   Issue 497   Vol. 48 No. 6
35th Year of Publication   23-Time Hugo Winner
Cover, Interviews, and Interior Color Design: Arnie Fenner

Main Stories
Hershey Joins Putnam/12   Jones Wins 2002 Clarke Award/12
2001 Asimov’s/Analog Awards/12   Heinlein Award Announced/12
2001 Chesley Awards Nominations/12   2001 PW Bestsellers/13

The Data File
SFWA Election Results/13   Andromeda Lives/13   Ellison Saves (Money)/13
New Booker Sponsor/13   NASA Forages for Parts/13   SF Tax to Fund NASA?/13
Dracula Sells After Auction/89   Dracula Kingdom/89   Star Wars at 25/89
Attack of the Tie-Ins/90   Amazon Discontinues Special Orders/90   HH Buys John Murray/90   Worldcons Updates/90   Big Brother RFID/90   King Update/90    Legal News/90   Awards/90   Publishing News/91   Bestseller Notes/91   Audio News/91 Magazine News/91   POD News/91   Williamson Birthday/91   Online News/91
Financial News/91    International Rights/92   Other Rights/92

Interviews
Paul McAuley: Pinball Zeitgeist/6   Nina Kiriki Hoffman: One Step Away/10

Conventions
2002 World Horror Convention/42   2002 Nebula Awards Weekend/46

Obituaries
George Alec Effinger/82   Appreciations by Barbara Hambly, Gardner Dozois, Pamela Sargent/82
Richard Cowper/84
Joan Harrison/85   Appreciations by Brian Aldiss, Sam J. Lundwall/85
Mary Scott/85   Betsy Curtis/85   Denis McLoughlin/85
Bruce Pelz/85   Tom Sutton/86   Bill Peet/86   Robert Kanigher/86
R.A. Lafferty Appreciation by Michael Swanwick/86
Damon Knight Appreciations by Kitte Knight, Gardner Dozois, Joe Haldeman/87

Listings
Forthcoming Books/51   British Forthcoming Books/58
Magazines Received: April/62   Books Received: April/63   British Books: March/77
Bestsellers/80   Photo Listing/93   Index to Ads/93

Columns & Departments
People & Publishing/14   Editorial Matters/88


Locus Looks at Books

Short Fiction Reviews by Nick Gevers / 16
Asimov’s 5/02; Realms of Fantasy 4/02; The Silver Web 1/02; ...is this a cat? ; Sci Fiction 5/02; F&SF 6/02; The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction, Mike Ashley, ed.

Short Fiction Reviews by Richard Horton / 17
Interzone 2/02; Interzone 3/02; The Infinite Matrix 4/3/02; Analog 6/02; Asimov’s 6/02; The Birthday of the World and Other Stories, Ursula K. Le Guin; Future Orbits 4-5/02; Sci Fiction 5/02; F&SF 6/02.

Locus Looks at Books
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe / 19
Stories of Your Life and Others, Ted Chiang; A Scattering of Jades, Alexander C. Irvine; Coraline, Neil Gaiman; Effendi: The Second Arabesk, Jon Courtenay Grimwood; The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction, Justine Larbalestier.

Reviews by Faren Miller / 23
Spaceland, Rudy Rucker; Evening’s Empire, David Herter; The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, Jeffrey Ford; The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds.; Piper in the Night, Dave Smeds; SHORT TAKE: The Martian Child, David Gerrold.

Reviews by Russell Letson/ 27
The Golden Age, John C. Wright; Light Music, Kathleen Ann Goonan.

Reviews by Edward Bryant / 29
The Mermaid That Came Between Them, Carol Anne Sima; A Walking Tour of the Shambles, Gene Wolfe & Neil Gaiman; SHORT TAKES: A Golden Anniversary Bibliography of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Henry Hardy Heins; True Tales of the Scarlet Sponge, Wayne Allen Sallee; Swedish Lutheran Vampires of Brainerd, Anne Waltz.
Reviews by Nick Gevers / 31
Permanence, Karl Schroeder; Contacting Aliens: An Illustrated Guide to David Brin’s Uplift Universe, David Brin & Kevin Lenagh; Mars Probes, Peter Crowther, ed.; SHORT TAKE: The Emperor of Dreams, Clark Ashton Smith.

Reviews by Bill Sheehan/ 33
Clive Barker: The Dark Fantastic, Douglas E. Winter; Hunted Past Reason, Richard Matheson; Chindi, Jack McDevitt.

Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 35
The Eye of Night, Pauline J. Alama; Hunted, N.M. Brown; To Trade the Stars, Julie E. Czerneda; The Curse of Arkady, Emily Drake; Sabrina Fludde (In the US as The Secret of Sabrina Fludde), Pauline Fisk; Outlaw Sword, J. Ardian Lee; Top 10: Book 2, Alan Moore; The Circle Opens: Cold Fire, Tamora Pierce; The Isle of Battle, Sean Russell.

Divers Hands: Reviews by Alyx Dellamonica and Tim Pratt / 37
American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold, Harry Turtledove; Argonaut, Stanley Schmidt; Hannibal’s Children, John Maddox Roberts; Slain in the Spirit, Melanie Tem; Caliban and Other Tales, Robert Devereaux.

Locus Looks at Art Books: Reviews by Karen Haber / 39
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, Lewis Carroll, illustrated by Mervyn Peake; The Science Fiction Art of Vincent Di Fate, Vincent Di Fate; Perceptualistics, art by Jael, text by John Grant; Masters of Animation, John Grant; SHORT TAKES: The Adventures of Pinocchio: The Story of a Puppet, Carlo Collodi, illustrated by Iassen Ghiuselev; What Pete Ate from A-Z (Really!), Maira Kalman; The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins, Barbara Kerley, illustrated by Brian Selznick; Frida, Jonah Winter, illustrated by Ana Juan.



TOP  

© 2002 by Locus Publications. All rights reserved. | Subscribe | E-mail Locus | Privacy