August 2012 Table of Contents
The August issue features interviews with Jack Vance and with Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer, results of this year’s Locus Survey, more appreciations of the late Ray Bradbury, reports and photos from Locus Awards Weekend and Readercon, and reviews of short fiction and new books by Kij Johnson, Paula Brandon, Gregory Benford & Larry Niven, John Barnes, and many others.
August 2012 • Issue 619 • Vol. 69 No. 2
45th Year of Publication • 29-Time Hugo Winner
Cover and Interview Designs by Francesca Myman
Ann & Jeff VanderMeer: The Weird / 7
Locus Survey / 28
Readercon / 34
Books Received: June / 37
British Books Received: May / 49
Bestsellers / 50
International Books and Magazines Received / 54
17,19,21,23
Magazine Issues reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer) —
Analog September 2012 (Rich Horton)
Asimov’s April/May 2012 (Gardner Dozois)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies May 2012 (Rich Horton)
Clarkesworld June 2012 (Rich Horton)
Intergalactic Medicine Show March 2012 (Rich Horton)
Interzone May-Jun 2012 (Rich Horton)
Lightspeed June 2012 (Rich Horton)
New Yorker June 4 & 11 2012 (Gardner Dozois)
New Yorker June 4 & 11 2012 (Rich Horton)
Strange Horizons June 2012 (Rich Horton)
Tor.com June 2012 (Rich Horton)
Books reviewed in this issue, listed by author (indicating reviewer) —
Ashby, Madeline • vN (Adrienne Martini)
Barnes, John • Raise the Glass (Adrienne Martini)
Benford, Gregory, & Larry Niven • Bowl of Heaven (Russell Letson)
Blaylock, James P. • Zeuglodon (Faren Miller)
Bond, Gwenda • Blackwood (Faren Miller)
Brandon, Paula • The Wanderers (Faren Miller)
Brin, David • Existence (Adrienne Martini)
Broderick, Damien, & Paul Di Filippo • Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010 (Gary K. Wolfe)
Duncan, Andy • The Pottawatomie Giant and Other Stories (Rich Horton)
Hoffman, Nina Kiriki • Permeable Borders (Faren Miller)
Johnson, Kij • At the Mouth of the River of Bees (Gary K. Wolfe)
Jones, Jeffrey • Jeffrey Jones: A Life in Art (Karen Haber)
Kaluta, Michael William • Michael Wm. Kaluta: Sketchbook Series 1: Sketchbook (Karen Haber)
Lanagan, Margo • Cracklespace (Gary K. Wolfe)
McDonald, Ian • Be My Enemy (Gary K. Wolfe)
Reed, Robert • Eater-of-Bone and Other Novellas (Gardner Dozois)
Stauber, Katy • Spin the Sky (Adrienne Martini)
Stross, Charles • The Apocalypse Codex (Russell Letson)
Williams, Liz • Worldsoul (Faren Miller)
Wilshire, Patrick, & David Spurlock, eds. • The Art of the Dragon: The Definitive Collection of Contemporary Dragon Paintings (Karen Haber)