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June 2004 • Issue 521 • Vol. 52 No. 6
37th Year of Publication • 25-Time Hugo Winner
Cover and Interviews Design by Arnie Fenner
M A I N S T O R I E S / 5
2004 Nebula Awards Weekend and SF Museum Preview • 2003 Analog/Asimov’s Awards • Sheila Williams Named Asimov’s Editor • Prometheus Launches Pyr SF/F Imprint • Arthur C. Clarke Award 2004 • More Specialty Bookstore Woes
I N T E R V I E W S
Michael Swanwick: Dinosaur Dreams / 6
Sean Williams: The Sweet Sound of SF / 84
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 Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Salman Rushdie, Anne McCaffrey, Larry Niven, and many others
T H E D A T A F I L E / 11
Bradbury on Mars • Auctions to Benefit Charles L. Grant • SFWA Election Results • WH Smith Shakeup • Avalon Acquires 4W8W • Campbell Conference Expanding • Clarion South 2005 • Argosy Update • More New Magazines • Announcements • Awards News • Small-Press Publishing News • Online News • Financial News • International Rights
F O R T H C O M I N G B O O K S
US Forthcoming Books / 32
British Forthcoming Books / 40
C O N V E N T I O N S / 48
World Horror Convention
L I S T I N G S
Magazines Received: April / 50
Books Received: April / 51
British Books Received: March / 65
Bestsellers / 68
O B I T U A R I E S / 77
Robyn Herrington • Basil Wells • Shirley Maiewski • Jerry Burge • Virgil Wilhite
E D I T O R I A L M A T T E R S / 78
Skittling in Seattle • Production Changes • Staff Update • Bookstore Problems • Life in Oakland
L O C U S L E T T E R S / 79
Harry Turtledove • Dave Mattingly • Andrew I. Porter
L O C U S L O O K S A T B O O K S
Short Fiction Reviews by Nick Gevers / 12
Conqueror Fantastic, Pamela Sargent, ed.; Asimov’s 6/04; F&SF 7/04; Sci Fiction 5/04; The Third Alternative Spring ’04; Analog 6/04.
Short Fiction Reviews by Richard Horton / 13
F&SF 6/04; Analog 6/04; The New Yorker 4/19/04; Realms of Fantasy 6/04; The Third Alternative Spring ’04; Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 2-3/04; Continuum Science Fiction Winter ’04; Sci Fiction 5/04; Strange Horizons 4/26/04; Ideomancer 4/04; Abyss and Apex 4-5/04; Fortean Bureau 3/04; Mother Aegypt and Other Stories, Kage Baker.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe / 15
Mortal Love, Elizabeth Hand; Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy, Al Sarrantonio, ed.; x,y,z,t: Dimensions of Science Fantasy, Damien Broderick; The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination, Ursula K. Le Guin; The Twentieth Century, Albert Robida.
Reviews by Faren Miller / 19
The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah, Stephen King; Perfect Circle, Sean Stewart; Trash Sex Magic, Jennifer Stevenson; Firethorn, Sarah Micklem; Secret Life, Jeff VanderMeer.
Reviews by Nick Gevers / 23
Innocents Aboard, Gene Wolfe; Secret Life, Jeff VanderMeer; Breathmoss and Other Exhalations, Ian R. MacLeod; Spondulix: A Romance of Hoboken, Paul Di Filippo.
Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 27
Heat Stroke, Rachel Caine; Survival, Julie E. Czerneda; The Silken Shroud, ElizaBeth Gilligan; Seraphim, Michele Hauf; Troll Fell, Katherine Langrish; The Buried Pyramid, Jane Lindskold; An Earthly Knight, Janet McNaughton; Heart Duel, Robin D. Owens; Scarlet Moon, Debbie Viguié.
Divers Hands: Reviews by Rich Horton, Farah Mendlesohn, and Tim Pratt / 29
Take No Prisoners, John Grant; Unexpected Magic: Collected Stories, Diana Wynne Jones; The Fourth Circle, Zoran Živkovic.
Terry Bisson: This Month in History / 12, 17, 21, 25
Quoted Without Comment / 27, 29, 36, 56
