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March 2004 • Issue 518 • Vol. 52 No. 3
37th Year of Publication • 25-Time Hugo Winner
Cover and Interviews Design by Arnie Fenner
I N T E R V I E W S
Robert Silverberg: One Word at a Time / 6
Elizabeth Moon: Explorations / 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 James Patrick Kelly, Terry Pratchett, Stephen King & Everett F. Bleiler, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Nalo Hopkinson, Michael Chabon, Brian Aldiss, Dean Koontz, and many others
M A I N S T O R I E S / 11
2003 Nebula Awards Final Ballot • 2003 British Book Summary • 2004 Clarke Award Nominees • 2003 BSFA Awards Nominees • Heddle Leaves Roc • Ellison vs. AOL to Go to Trial • Atwood Confesses
T H E D A T A F I L E / 13
2004 Philip K. Dick Award Judges • 2004 Nebula Awards Weekend • 2004 World Horror Convention • Penguin Does Direct Online Book Sales • Random House Continues to Consolidate • Bookpeople to Close • Teenagers on Top • WotC Closes Retail Stores • Worldcons News • SFWA E-voting Test • Pooh Legal Bother • Dressed by Barker • Potter Reprint Plethora • Announcements • Awards News • Publishing News • Magazine News • Online News • Financial News • International Rights • Other Rights • Other Media Received • Publications Received
F O R T H C O M I N G B O O K S
US Forthcoming Books / 36
British Forthcoming Books / 44
L I S T I N G S
Magazines Received: January / 48
Books Received: January / 49
British Books Received: December / 59
Bestsellers / 62
O B I T U A R I E S / 70
Julius Schwartz • Appreciations by Ray Bradbury, Jack Williamson, and Harlan Ellison
William Relling, Jr. • Donald Barr • M.M. Kaye
L O C U S L E T T E R S / 74
Gordon Van Gelder • Simon Taylor
E D I T O R I A L M A T T E R S / 74
New Writers’ Party • This Issue • Next Issue • Julie Schwartz • Poll & Survey
L O C U S L O O K S A T B O O K S
Short Fiction Reviews by Nick Gevers / 14
Argosy 1-2/04; Asimov’s 3/04; F&SF 3/04; Sci Fiction 2/04.
Short Fiction Reviews by Richard Horton / 15
Asimov’s 2/04; Asimov’s 3/04; Analog 3/04; F&SF 3/04; Realms of Fantasy 2/04; Sci Fiction 2/04; Strange Horizons 1/04; Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 12/03-1/04; Polyphony 3, Deborah Layne & Jay Lake, eds.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe / 17
The Zenith Angle, Bruce Sterling; The Confusion, Neal Stephenson; Market Forces, Richard Morgan.
Reviews by Faren Miller / 21
Last Light of the Sun, Guy Gavriel Kay; Frek and the Elixir, Rudy Rucker; The Caves of Buda, Leah R. Cutter; Eastern Standard Tribe, Cory Doctorow; Heat of Fusion and Other Stories, John M. Ford.
Reviews by Russell Letson / 25
City of Pearl, Karen Traviss; Cowl, Neal Asher.
Reviews by Jonathan Strahan / 27
Midnight Lamp, Gwyneth Jones; Alphabet of Thorn, Patricia A. McKillip; Eastern Standard Tribe, Cory Doctorow.
Reviews by Nick Gevers / 29
Glass Dragons, Sean McMullen; The Affinity Trap, Martin Sketchley; The Fourth Circle, Zoran Zivkovic.
Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 31
Irresistable Forces, Catherine Asaro, ed.; The Stone of the Stars, Alison Baird; A Great and Terrible Beauty, Libba Bray; Absolutely Captivated, Kristine Grayson; Dead Witch Walking, Kim Harrison; Smoke and Shadows, Tanya Huff; Alta, Mercedes Lackey; A Hat Full of Sky, Terry Pratchett; Love Bites, Lynsay Sands; A Scholar of Magics, Caroline Stevermer; Storyteller, Amy Thomson.
Divers Hands: Reviews by Rich Horton, Tim Pratt, and Farah Mendlesohn / 33
Island Dreams, Claude Lalumière; More Tomorrow & Other Stories, Michael Marshall Smith; The Seagull Drovers, Steve Cockayne.
