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November 2003 • Issue 514 • Vol. 51 No. 5
36th Year of Publication • 25-Time Hugo Winner
Cover and Interviews Design by Arnie Fenner
I N T E R V I E W S
Howard Waldrop: Fly Fishing for Stories / 6
Ian R. MacLeod: Not Quite Rock ’n’ Roll / 76
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 about Jack Chalker, Anne McCaffrey, Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean, China Miéville, Steven Barnes, Harlan Ellison, Robert Jordan, Laurell K. Hamilton, William Gibson, and many others
M A I N S T O R I E S / 11
Hopkinson Wins 2003 Sunburst • Sonoma County Book Fair • Changes at Orion’s Top
Heinlein Estate Donates $800,000 / 13
W O R L D C O N R E P O R T
Torcon 3 / 11
Photos / 69
T H E D A T A F I L E / 13
PS postscripts • Clarke Award Loses Some Funding • Random Heyne Merger Modified • NBC Acquires Vivendi Entertainment Assets • Forbidden Planet Moves and Expands • MacArthur Genius Grants Announced • Worldcons Updates • SFWA Increases Qualifying Rate • Time Warner Drops AOL from Moniker • WHSmith Leaves US • Palm Prudery • Doctor Who Revival • French Pulp and SF in English • D4EO Agency Splits • Pitter Potter • Announcements • Awards News • Publishing News • Book News • Print-on-Demand News • Online News • Financial News • International Rights • Other Rights • Other Media Received • Publications Received • Catalogs Received
L I S T I N G S
Magazines Received: September / 38
Books Received: September / 39
British Books Received: August / 56
Bestsellers / 58
L O C U S L E T T E R S / 63
Alastair Reynolds • Rob Gerrand • Stephen Jones
O B I T U A R I E S / 75
William Steig
E D I T O R I A L M A T T E R S / 75
The Big Apple • This Issue • Next Issue • World Fantasy Con
L O C U S L O O K S A T B O O K S
Short Fiction Reviews by Nick Gevers / 14
Asimov’s 10-11/03; F&SF 10-11/03; Analog 10/03; Sci Fiction 9/03; The Dark, Ellen Datlow, ed.; Legends II, Robert Silverberg, ed.; Realms of Fantasy 10/03; The Third Alternative Summer ’03; Interzone 7-8/03.
Short Fiction Reviews by Richard Horton / 15
Asimov’s 10-11/03; Analog 11/03; Sci Fiction 10/03; The New Yorker 9/8/03; Hitting the Skids in Pixeltown, Orson Scott Card, Keith Olexa, & Christian O’Toole, eds.; Agog! Terrific Tales, Cat Sparks, ed.; In Springdale Town, Robert Freeman Wexler; Jupiter Magnified, Adam Roberts
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe / 17
The Salt Roads, Nalo Hopkinson; Dark Matter: Reading the Bones, Sheree R. Thomas, ed.; Coalescent, Stephen Baxter; Time’s Eye: A Time Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter.
Reviews by Faren Miller / 21
Crawlers, John Shirley; The Crystal City, Orson Scott Card; Venus Preserved, Tanith Lee; Any Man So Daring, Sarah A. Hoyt; Mortal Engines, Philip Reeve; IN & OZ, Steve Tomasula.
Reviews by Russell Letson / 25
The Sundering, Walter Jon Williams; The Killing of Worlds, Scott Westerfeld; The Golden Transcendence, John C. Wright.
Reviews by Jonathan Strahan / 27
¡Limekiller!, Avram Davidson; Little Gods, Tim Pratt.
Reviews by Nick Gevers / 29
The Golden Transcendence, John C. Wright; Coalescent, Stephen Baxter; The Anvil of the World, Kage Baker; Maul, Tricia Sullivan.
Reviews by Bill Sheehan / 33
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla, Stephen King; The Dark Tower 1: The Gunslinger (Revised), Stephen King; Stephen King’s The Dark Tower: A Concordance: Volume I, Robin Furth.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman & Tim Pratt / 35
The Tears of the Salamander, Peter Dickinson; Threshold, Sara Douglass; Path of Fate, Diana Pharaoh Francis; Exile’s Valor, Mercedes Lackey; The Time Twister (in the US as Charlie Bone and the Time Twister), Jenny Nimmo; Firebirds, Sharyn November, ed.; Trickster’s Choice, Tamora Pierce; Point of Honour, Madeleine E. Robins; Tinker, Wen Spencer; Cigar-Box Faust and Other Miniatures, Michael Swanwick.
