P E O P L E  &  P U B L I S H I N G / 8

Notes on marriages, awards, books sold, etc., with news this issue on Bob Eggleton, Esther M. Friesner, Peter Hamilton, Sheri S. Tepper, Anne McCaffrey, and many others.

M A I N    S T O R I E S / 11

Ron Walotsky (1943-2002)  •  Gemmell Wins the Prix Tour Eiffel Award  •  2001 World Fantasy Awards Nominations  •  Harper Children's Launches Eos YA Line  •  Bertelsmann Shake-Up  •  AOLTW Under Federal Scrutiny

T H E    D A T A    F I L E / 13

Houghton Mifflin on Block (Again)  •  Gibson SF Collection Donated  •  Secret Agent Ransome  •  Graphic Novels Grow  •  Shadowmarch Dies  •  Worldcons Updates  •  Announcements  •  Awards News  •  Magazine News  •  POD News  •  Online News  •  Legal News  •  Financial News  •  International Rights

L O C U S    C E L E B R A T I O N    500 / 40

With material by Gary K. Wolfe, John Clute, Neil Gaiman, David G. Hartwell, Gardner Dozois, Connie Willis, Frederik Pohl, Robert Silverberg, plus congratulations, commiserations, & sundry comments on Issue 500 and Charles N. Brown's ''retirement'' from many others.

F O R T H C O M I N G    B O O K S
Forthcoming Books / 46    British Forthcoming Books / 56

L I S T I N G S

Magazines Received: July / 60    Books Received: July / 61    British Books Received: June / 73    Bestsellers / 76

O B I T U A R I E S

Ron Walotsky / 11  •  Appreciations by Bob Eggleton, Jane & Howard Frank, and Joe Haldeman / 11  •  Donald L. Franson / 86  •  Franco Lucentini / 86  •  William L. Pierce / 86

E D I T O R I A L    M A T T E R S / 81

F&SF 9/02; Sci Fiction 8/02; Asimov's 8/02; Interzone 6-7/02; Realms of Fantasy 8/02; Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 6/02.

The Silver Web 1/02; The Third Alternative Spring '02; Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 6/02; Black Gate Summer '02; Challenging Destiny 6/02; Interzone 5/02; Sci Fiction 8/02; Strange Horizons 7/1/02, 7/15/02; F&SF 9/02; Stories of Your Life and Others, Ted Chiang.

White Apples, Jonathan Carroll; If Lions Could Speak, Paul Park; Strange But Not a Stranger, James Patrick Kelly; Shadow Puppets, Orson Scott Card.

Summerland, Michael Chabon; The Woad to Wuin, Peter David; The Iron Grail, Robert Holdstock; A Bed of Earth, Tanith Lee; Across the Nightingale Floor, Lian Hearn; Sisters of the Raven, Barbara Hambly.

Coraline, Neil Gaiman; The Darker Side, John Pelan, ed.; ...Doomed to Repeat It, d.g.k. goldberg; SHORT TAKE: Spider Moon, John Shirley

Phase Space, Stephen Baxter; Toast and Other Rusted Futures, Charles Stross; Castles Made of Sand, Gwyneth Jones; Lost in a Good Book, Jasper Fforde; SHORT TAKES: V.A.O., Geoff Ryman; Turquoise Days, Alastair Reynolds.

Redemption Ark, Alastair Reynolds; Turquoise Days, Alastair Reynolds; A Scattering of Jades, Alexander C. Irvine; Imagined Slights, James Lovegrove; SHORT TAKE: Black Gods and Scarlet Dreams, C.L. Moore.

Tithe, Holly Black; The Angel Factory, Terence Blacker; The Fathomless Caves, Kate Forsyth; Nightmare, Steve Harper; Sorcerers of the Nightwing, Geoffrey Huntington; Wolf's Head, Wolf's Heart, Jane Lindskold; Night Watch, Terry Pratchett; A School for Sorcery, E. Rose Sabin; War of Honor, David Weber.

Solitaire, Kelley Eskridge; Last Things, David Searcy; Breed, Owl Goingback.

GOAD: The Many Moods of Phil Hale, Phil Hale; Paper Tiger Fantasy Art Gallery, Paul Barnett, ed.; Coraline, Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Dave McKean; SHORT TAKES: A Fairy's Child, Ann Dahlgren & Douglas Foulke; The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds.; Murder Mysteries, Neil Gaiman, adapted and illustrated by P. Craig Russell; Vampires, anon.; Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color, Philip Ball; GroBoto, Darrel Anderson (www.grobotto.com, www.braid.com).