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May 2008 • Issue 568 • Vol. 60 No. 5
41st Year of Publication • 28-Time Hugo Winner
Cover and Interview Design by Arnie Fenner

I N T E R V I E W S
Theodora Goss: Shifting Ground / 6
Catherynne M. Valente: Playing in the Garden / 68
A R T H U R    C .    C L A R K E :    I N    M E M O R I A M / 5
Gregory Benford • Stephen Baxter • Frederik Pohl • John Varley • Ben Bova • Alan Dean Foster • Greg Bear • Paul Preuss • Will Ludwigsen • Mike Resnick • David Gerrold • Preston Grassmann • Charles N. Brown • Egogram 2007
M A I N    S T O R I E S / 5 & 10
ICFA • 2007 Nebula Awards • Díaz Wins Pulitzer Prize • Hall Wins Tiptree • 2007 BSFA Awards • 2007 Stoker Awards • 32nd Annual Williamson Lectureship
P E O P L E   &   P U B L I S H I N G / 8
Notes on milestones, awards, books sold, etc., with news this issue about Charles Stross, Kim Harrison, David Marusek, Elizabeth Hand, Ken Scholes, and many others
T H E    D A T A    F I L E / 11
New York Tries Internet Sales Tax Enforcement • Amazon Muscles POD Publishers • Sharing Superman • Match It for Pratchett • High Hobbit • Book Clubs Bomb for Bertelsmann • Nix’s Package Deal • Borders for Sale • Virgin Horror • Daily Doctorow • Bestselling SF • 85 Weirdest Storytellers • Favorite Book Poll • Movie Memorabilia Sale • Potter Persists – A Weekend with the Bard • Awards News • Publishing News • Worldcons News • Announcements • Financial News • International Rights
C O M M E N T A R Y / 29
Cory Doctorow: Think Like a Dandelion
C O N V E N T I O N S
Do the Guests Know?: The 2008 World Horror Convention by Edward Bryant / 30    The International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts: ICFA Moves to Orlando by Gary K. Wolfe / 34
L I S T I N G S
Magazines Received: March / 48    Books Received: March / 49   
British Books Received: February / 58    Bestsellers / 60
E D I T O R I A L    M A T T E R S / 66
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O B I T U A R I E S / 67
Norma VanceJohnny Byrne Robert FaglesDEATH DISCOVERED: Lewis Kornbluth • Appreciations by Mark Rich



L O C U S    L O O K S    A T    B O O K S
Short Fiction Reviews by Nick Gevers / 12
Asimov’s 6/08; F&SF 6/08; Sideways in Crime, Lou Anders, ed.; Pump Six and Other Stories, Paolo Bacigalupi.
Short Fiction Reviews by Richard Horton / 13
Celebration: 50 Years of the British Science Fiction Association, Ian Whates, ed.; Myth-Understandings, Ian Whates, ed.; The Starry Rift, Jonathan Strahan, ed.; 2012, Alisa Krasnostein & Ben Payne, eds.; Asimov’s 6/08; F&SF 5/08; On Spec Winter ’07/’08; Realms of Fantasy 4/08; Shimmer v. 2 no. 4; Black Static 2/08; Fantasy 3/08; Clarkesworld 3/08
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe / 15
Implied Spaces, Walter Jon Williams; Superpowers, David J. Schwartz; Wit’s End, Karen Joy Fowler; Odd and the Frost Giants, Neil Gaiman.
Reviews by Faren Miller / 19
Escapement, Jay Lake; Cosmos Incorporated, Maurice G. Dantec; The Adoration of Jenna Fox, Mary E. Pearson; Duma Key, Stephen King; Where Angels Fear: The Collected Short Fiction, Volume One, Ken Rand.
Reviews by Russell Letson / 23
Dust, Elizabeth Bear; Matter, Iain M. Banks.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 25
Aunt Dimity: Vampire Hunter, Nancy Atherton; Wings: A Fairy Tale, E.D. Baker; Free Fall, Laura Anne Gilman; Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing with Fire, Derek Landy; Demons Are a Ghoul’s Best Friend, Victoria Laurie; Ghost of a Chance, Kate Marsh; Mad Kestrel, Misty Massey; The Lost Art, Simon Morden; Steward of Song, Adam Stemple.
Reviews by Divers Hands: Rich Horton & Graham Sleight / 27
Sideways in Crime, Lou Anders, ed.; The Somnambulist, Jonathan Barnes.
Terry Bisson: This Month in History / 13, 15, 19, 25
 
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