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 Tuesday 6 December 2005• Future History: Forthcoming BooksSelected US and UK titles scheduled for December 2005 through September 2006, from Locus Magazine's December issue, are listed here by month Wednesday 7 September 2005• Future History: Forthcoming BooksSelected US and UK titles scheduled for September 2005 through June 2006, from Locus Magazine's September 2005 issue, are listed here by month Friday 26 August 2005• Locus Magazine: Janis Ian Interview Excerpts
I think of science fiction as the prose equivalent of jazz: they're both outsider forms, they both stand on the legacy of that which went before, and they both tend to cultivate an audience that is much more knowledgeable about the form than the regular pop or folk audience has to be.
• Locus Magazine: Judith Berman Interview Excerpts
Fantasy is in some ways about a person's internal nonrealistic life, and science fiction is about the external. Life is getting less and less realistic all the time, as we move into the future. In fact, realism has had kind of a short shelf life, in the larger scheme of things.
Thursday 28 July 2005• Locus Magazine: August Issue
Locus Magazine's August issue, mailing yesterday to subscribers, has interviews with Janis Ian and Judith Berman, complete Locus Survey results, reviews of 38 books and of short fiction, and much more
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• Locus Magazine: Locus Bestsellers
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Friday 22 July 2005• Locus Magazine: Lois McMaster Bujold Interview Excerpts
Both historical fantasy and futuristic science fiction have the appeal of being very far away from here, that escapist element. 'Escapist' is one of those terms that gets used with a sneer, but I'm getting to be more and more of the opinion that it has a value in its own right that isn't being properly appreciated.
• Locus Magazine: Mark Budz Interview Excerpts
Five years ago, I thought I would never sell a book. The best writing advice I ever got came from a statement made by Bruce Sterling: 'Follow your weird.' Just do your thing -- don't worry about what anybody else thinks. That's what I'm trying to do.
Thursday 30 June 2005• Locus Magazine: July Issue
Locus Magazine's July issue, mailing today to subscribers, has interviews with Lois McMaster Bujold and Mark Budz, complete Locus Poll results and winners, reviews of 29 books and of short fiction, and much more
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• Locus Magazine: Locus Bestsellers
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Monday 27 June 2005• Locus Magazine: Margo Lanagan Interview Excerpts
Short stories are a very different way of writing from novels. For me these are serious forms of escape, momentary but intense forms of escape. They take me right away from the world! I have a nice long commute to my day job, and I wrote all the stories in Black Juice on the train.
• Locus Magazine: Cecelia Holland Interview Excerpts
People don't read for the right reasons, or they don't read well any more. If they're not immediately amused, they think you've done a bad job and they discard it. The serious reader reads in order to enter into worlds that he could not enter into otherwise, and expand himself and grow and find new parts of himself.
Wednesday 1 June 2005• Locus Magazine: Forthcoming BooksSelected US and UK titles scheduled for June 2005 through March 2006, from Locus Magazine's June 2005 issue Tuesday 31 May 2005• Locus Magazine: June Issue
Locus Magazine's June issue, mailing today to subscribers, has interviews with Margo Lanagan and Cecelia Holland, forthcoming books listings through March 2006, awards news, reviews of 26 books and of short fiction, and much more
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• Locus Magazine: Locus Bestsellers
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Friday 27 May 2005• Locus Magazine: Sean Stewart Interview Excerpts
The technical term for those of us running the show is 'puppet master.' We were trying to do a kind of science fiction story/radio/flash-mob-experience narrative. Over two million people got onto the website, and on an average week when we did updates we'd get maybe 150,000 hits and many, many terabytes of download.
• Locus Magazine: Rosemary Kirstein Interview Excerpts
I had always written and always been interested in writing even while I was trying to make it as a folksinger, so it's not like writing came out of the blue. In turning from folk music to science fiction, I just went from one ghettoized art form to another. I couldn't make it as a famous folksinger, so now I'm a midlist writer!
• Locus Magazine: Chris Roberson Interview Excerpts
If I didn't have the opportunity to channel my obsessive tendencies into something fairly constructive like writing, I'm sure I'd be obsessed with some crazy conspiracy theory and papering the walls of my house with articles I'd cut out of The Weekly World News and The Wall Street Journal, with pen mark notations all over them.
Thursday 28 April 2005• Locus Magazine: May Issue
Locus Magazine's May issue, mailing today to subscribers, has interviews with Sean Stewart, Rosemary Kirstein, and Chris Roberson, awards news, international reports, reviews of 24 books and of short fiction, and much more
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• Locus Magazine: Locus Bestsellers
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Monday 25 April 2005• Locus Magazine: Susanna Clarke Interview Excerpts
I wanted to explore my ideas of the fantastic, as well as my ideas of England and my attachment to English landscape. From an English person's point of view, you look across at America and you get the impression there is a sort of fable, a myth of America: an ideal of what America really is. Sometimes it feels to me as though we don't have a fable of England, of Britain, something strong and idealized and romantic.
• Locus Magazine: Beth Meacham Interview Excerpts
The problem with science fiction today is that it has become two extremes. There's the extreme of the mimetic novel (a real-life mainstream book) which has a little bit of a science-fictional element thrown into it ... At the other extreme there is the rarified, almost decadent science fiction.
• Locus Magazine: Laurel Winter Interview Excerpts
Being a misfit when I was a kid was the best thing that ever happened to me. Every bit of teenage unpopularity, all the boys I liked who liked my younger sister -- all of that.
Thursday 31 March 2005• Locus Magazine: April Issue
Locus Magazine's April issue, mailing today to subscribers, has interviews with Susanna Clarke, Laurel Winter, and Beth Meacham, an obituary and appreciations of Andre Norton, reviews of 30 books and of short fiction, and much more
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• Locus Magazine: Locus Bestsellers
• Locus Magazine: New & Notable Books
Friday 25 March 2005• Locus Magazine: Clive Barker Interview Excerpts
As a Brit, to some extent I'm an outsider (though less than I used to be). As a gay man, I'm an outsider on another level. My husband is black and our daughter -- David's daughter, but I'm Dad #2 -- is half black, half Mexican, so I get other visions of outsiderdom.
• Locus Magazine: Malcolm Edwards Interview Excerpts
There has always been an audience for big-idea SF in Britain -- there just hadn't been the books, or the short fiction. I was there at the beginnings of Interzone (I paid for the stories in the third issue myself!), and when we started out it was almost not an SF magazine.
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Issues Archive
DECEMBER
Wed 21 Dec 05 —
December issue's interview with Paul McAuley is excerpted...
All the tropes we're using now come from science fiction's deep history. Since cyberspace, I don't think there's been a brand-new trope, with the possible exception of the singularity. But the problem with the singularity is that it is the end of science fiction.
Mon 19 Dec 05 —
December issue's interview with Robin Hobb is excerpted...
It's not magic if everybody can do it. If you write a novel where everybody could snap their fingers and light a fire, it becomes the commonplace technology. The inversion of 'any sufficiently advanced technology is magic' would be 'any sufficiently common magic is technology.'
 Tue 29 Nov 05 —
The December issue, mailed today to subscribers, has interviews with Robin Hobb and Paul McAuley, lists of forthcoming books through September '06, reviews of 30 books and of short fiction, and more
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Locus Bestsellers -- compiled from specialty stores -- are by Neil Gaiman, S.M. Stirling, Neal Stephenson, Keith R.A. DeCandido, and R.A. Salvatore
• New & Notable Books are by Terry Bisson, Steven Erikson, Matthew Hughes, Robert Jordan, George R.R. Martin, David Marusek, Kim Stanley Robinson, Gary Westfahl, and others  Fri 28 Oct 05 —
The November issue, mailed October 27th to subscribers, has interviews with George R.R. Martin and Tim Pratt, coverage of Spectrum Exhibition, reviews of 38 books and of short fiction, and more
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• Locus Bestsellers -- compiled from specialty stores -- are by J.K. Rowling, Kim Stanley Robinson, Iain M. Banks, Troy Denning, and Philip Athans • New & Notable Books are by Clive Barker, Octavia E. Butler, Hal Duncan, Neil Gaiman, Ken MacLeod, Susan Palwick, Terry Pratchett, Gary Westfahl, and others  Wed 19 Oct 05 —
October issue's interviews with Jack McDevitt and Benjamin Rosenbaum are excerpted...
"I like science fiction because I can put my characters in these odd situations. For me, the moment comes when you recognize that next step beyond the world we're accustomed to, when you first encounter the alien. That's where the magic is."
"I like alienation. Part of what I like about science fiction is reading a text and going, 'Wow! This will be different!' "
Wed 28 Sep 05 —
The October issue, mailing September 29th to subscribers, has interviews with Jack McDevitt and Benjamin Rosenbaum, coverage of InterAction, reviews of 20 books and of short fiction, and more
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• Locus Bestsellers -- compiled from specialty stores -- are by J.K. Rowling, Dan Simmons, Neal Stephenson, Troy Denning, and Margaret Weis • New & Notable Books are by Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Michael Cunningham, Thomas M. Disch, Jeffrey Ford, China Miéville, Lucius Shepard, Kate Wilhelm, and others  Fri 23 Sep 05 —
September issue's interviews with Rudy Rucker and Damien Broderick are excerpted...
"'Gnarl' is not so much a form as it is a process that's behaving in an intricate and unpredictable fashion. If I had a coat-of-arms, or for that matter a tombstone, I would put 'Seek the Gnarl' on it!"
"The Singularity is a kind of perspective on unspeakable changes that we can't specify yet. We don't know -- that's the point."
Wed 31 Aug 05 —
The September issue, mailed August 30th to subscribers, has Hugo Awards coverage and results,
interviews with Rudy Rucker and Damien Broderick, listings of forthcoming books through June 2006, reviews of 28 books and of short fiction, and more
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• Locus Bestsellers -- compiled from specialty stores -- are by Lois McMaster Bujold, Kelley Armstrong, Neal Stephenson, Matthew Stover, and Ed Greenwood • New & Notable Books are by Michael Blumlein, Kelly Link, Ian R. MacLeod, Robert Sheckley, Charles Stross, Gene Wolfe, and others  Interviews with Janis Ian Judith Berman Table of Contents Locus Bestsellers New & Notable Books Mailing date: July 28  Interviews with Lois McMaster Bujold Mark Budz Table of Contents Locus Bestsellers New & Notable Books Mailing date: June 30  Interviews with Margo Lanagan Cecelia Holland Table of Contents Locus Bestsellers New & Notable Books Mailing date: May 31  Interviews with Sean Stewart Rosemary Kirstein Chris Roberson Table of Contents Locus Bestsellers New & Notable Books Mailing date: April 28  Interviews with Susanna Clarke Beth Meacham Laurel Winter Remembrances of Andre Norton Table of Contents Locus Bestsellers New & Notable Books Mailing date: March 31
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MARCH 2005  Interviews with Clive Barker Malcolm Edwards Table of Contents Locus Bestsellers New & Notable Books Mailing date: February 24
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Locus Magazine's February issue is our annual Year in Review, with essays about the year's best books and stories, and articles about the year's developments in publishing
• Plus, an interview with Neil Gaiman, appreciations of Will Eisner and Frank Kelly Freas, and much more •
Locus Magazine's January issue features interviews with Charles Stross and Cory Doctorow, an article by Ursula K. Le Guin about the "Earthsea" TV adaptation, photos from the World Fantasy Convention, and much more •
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