M A I N    S T O R I E S / 5

2004 Hugo Awards Winners • 1954 Retro Hugo Awards Winners • 2004 Locus Awards • Noreascon 4 • Clarke Accepts Heinlein Award • Doctorow Wins 2004 Sunburst • 2004 Chesley Awards Winners • Kid-Lit Trumps Chick-Lit

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 Gardner Dozois, Jack Williamson, Esther Friesner, Tad Williams, Poppy Z. Brite, Neil Gaiman, and many others

T H E    D A T A    F I L E / 11

SF Cruising • Basilisk Dreams Closes • Marvel Joins Diamond • Potter Notes • Announcements • Awards • Worldcons Updates • Publishing News • Book News • Online News • Financial News • International Rights • Other Rights • Other Media Received • Publications Received

S P E C I A L

Complete 1954 Retro Hugo Voting / 35    Complete 2004 Hugo Voting / 36    2004 Hugo Awards Ceremony / 38

L I S T I N G S

Conventions / 46    Magazines Received: August / 47    Books Received: August / 64   
British Books Received: July / 66    Bestsellers / 70

O B I T U A R I E S / 74

Alfred Coppel • Harvey Wheeler • George Flynn • Fred Whipple • Charles Rome Smith • Appreciation by Ray Bradbury • Peter Graham

L O C U S    L E T T E R S / 72

Stephen Jones • Cory Doctorow • Gordon Van Gelder • Richard Simms

E D I T O R I A L    M A T T E R S / 75

Noreascon 4 • Hugo • Locus Awards • Museums, Etc. • Corrections • Next Issue

Asimov’s 10-11/04; Sci Fiction 9/04; Mere, Robert Reed; Amazing 9/04; Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 6/04.

F&SF 10-11/04; Asimov’s 9/04; Asimov’s 10-11/04; Analog 10/04; Sci Fiction 9/04; Strange Horizons 8/04; Talebones Summer ’04; Synergy SF, George Zebrowski, ed.

The System of the World, Neal Stephenson; Stable Strategies and Others, Eileen Gunn; The Dry Salvages, Caitlνn R. Kiernan.

The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower, Stephen King; The Road to the Dark Tower, Bev Vincent, Her Name Was Lola, Russell Hoban; Going Postal, Terry Pratchett; Circus of the Grand Design, Robert Freeman Wexler; The Jaguar Knights, Dave Duncan.

Crucible, Nancy Kress; The Boy Who Would Live Forever, Frederik Pohl.

Exultant, Stephen Baxter; The Last Guardian of Everness, John C. Wright; The Snow, Adam Roberts; White Rose, R. Garcia y Robertson; Neutrino Drag, Paul Di Filippo.

The Algebraist, Iain M. Banks; Gaudeamus, John Barnes; The Banquet of the Lords of Night & Other Stories, Liz Williams.

The Runes of the Earth, Stephen R. Donaldson; Thumbprints, Pamela Sargent; Breathe, Christopher Fowler.