James Patrick Kelly: Explorer / 6
Ken MacLeod: Politics & SF / 85

2005 World Fantasy Awards Nominations • Farmercon • Changes at Orbit USA • Dorchester Forms SF Line with Wildside • Emerald City Folds • Clarion & Clarion West 2006

Notes on marriages, awards, books sold, etc., with news this issue about Spider & Jeanne Robinson, Frederik Pohl, Lois McMaster Bujold, Greg Bear, Thomas Pynchon, Orson Scott Card, and many others

Night Shade Moves • Grass in the SS • Earthsea Beats Pirates • Masters of Science Fiction Series Line-Up • The Robert E. Howard Franchise • Superhero Stamps • Browse Inside HarperCollins • Expensive Shortlists • Book Group Expo • Espresso Book Machine • Private Equity Rumors • Brick Lane Battle • POD Pays Out • Science Foo Camp • Bram Sesquicentennial Show • Google to Scan UC • Legal News • Potter News • Worldcons News • Awards News • Book News • Bookstore News • Financial News • International Rights • Other Rights • Publications Received • Catalogs Received

Cory Doctorow: How Copyright Broke

US Forthcoming Books / 38    British Forthcoming Books / 52

Readercon / 42

Magazines Received: July / 56    Books Received: July / 57   
British Books Received: June / 73    Bestsellers / 74

David Gemmell • Appreciations by John Jarrold, Stan Nicholls, Anne Gay, and Steve Saffel • Bob Leman • Appreciation by John DeChancie • Philip E. High • Appreciations by Philip Harbottle and Marion & Richard van der Voort • William M.S. Russell • Martin Last • Appreciation by Alice K. Turner • Susan E. Michaud

Dennis Lien

A Confusing Issue • Hugo Handicapping • My Surgery • Books Read • This Issue • Next Issue

F&SF 10-11/06; Asimov’s 10-11/06; Forbidden Planets, Marvin Kaye, ed.; Electric Velocipede 10; Analog 9/06.

Asimov’s 10-11/06; F&SF 9/06; Interzone 6/06; Subterranean #4; Weird Tales 6/06; Fantasy Magazine #4; On Spec Summer ’06; Forbidden Planets, Marvin Kaye, ed.

The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, & Gavin Grant, eds.; The Year’s Best Fantasy 6, David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, eds.: Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2006 Edition, Rich Horton, ed.; Fantasy: The Very Best of 2005, Jonathan Strahan, ed.

Forest Mage, Robin Hobb; Voices, Ursula K. Le Guin; The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch; The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, Gordon Dahlquist; The Blade Itself, Joe Abercrombie; SHORT TAKE: Benighted, Kit Whitfield.

Variable Star, Robert A. Heinlein & Spider Robinson; Heinlein’s Children: The Juveniles, Joseph T. Major; Recursion, Tony Ballantyne.

The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, Gordon Dahlquist; Horror: The Best of the Year: 2006 Edition, John Betancourt & Sean Wallace, eds.; Shelter, L.A. Maynard & M.P.N. Sims.

Soldier of Sidon, Gene Wolfe; The Machine’s Child, Kage Baker; The Line Between, Peter S. Beagle; The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch; SHORT TAKES: Paragaea: A Planetary Romance, Chris Roberson; The Man from the Diogenes Club, Kim Newman.

The Oracle’s Queen, Lynn Flewelling; Girl Genius Book Five: Agatha Heterodyne and the Clockwork Princess, Phil & Kaja Foglio; Hounding the Moon, P.R. Frost; Bring It On, Laura Anne Gilman; Horns & Wrinkles, Joseph Helgerson; The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, Diana Wynne Jones; The Fog Mound, Book 1: The Travels of Thelonious, Book 1, Susan Schade & Jon Buller; Kitty Goes to Washington, Carrie Vaughn; PS238: No Child Left Behind!, Aaron Williams.