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April 2012 Posts: This Week's BestsellersMonday 30 April 2012 | Monitor
Karen Russell's Swamplandia! is back on a couple lists.
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, late AprilSunday 29 April 2012 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of F&SF, Bull Spec, Tor.com, and new 'zine Fireside Magazine
Periodicals: late AprilSaturday 28 April 2012 | Monitor
What's in new issues of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Black Static, Bull Spec, SF Site, and The New York Review of Science Fiction
Classic Reprints: AprilFriday 27 April 2012 | Monitor
Library of America does Edgar Rice Burroughs, plus new editions of titles by A. Bertram Chandler, Philip K. Dick, Henry Kuttner, Melissa Scott & Lisa A. Barnett, John Shirley, and Robert Silverberg
Paul Di Filippo reviews Henry Kuttner's Thunder in the VoidThursday 26 April 2012 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
These stories remind me of those hour-long B movies from the Golden Age of Hollywood, films that swept viewers up instantly and carried them to the exciting climax with no time to stop and ponder any gaps in logic or continuity. Adrienne Martini reviews A.S. ByattWednesday 25 April 2012 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's April 2012 issue
While Byatt explores the experience of being a kid during a war, she also retells the story of the Ring Cycle, deftly interweaving the two. Neither story would have much impact if forced to stand alone. Together, however, they echo and howl. New Books : 24 AprilTuesday 24 April 2012 | Monitor
Released today: Stephen King’s The Wind Through the Keyhole, The Mongoliad by Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear, and friends, the first US edition of Ken MacLeod’s The Night Sessions, and titles by Benedict, Bennett, Black, Chadbourn, Douglas, Frater, Gustainis, Haley, Hearne, Hoffman, Mills, Pehov, Weis & Hickman, Wellington, and Wendig; earlier, titles by Brooks, Mickelsen, Morrissey, and Parsons
This Week's BestsellersMonday 23 April 2012 | Monitor
Seth Grahame-Smith’s Unholy Night debuts on two lists.
Paul Di Filippo reviews Samuel R. Delany's Through the Valley of the Nest of SpidersSunday 22 April 2012 | Reviews
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Samuel R. "Chip" Delany wants to push your buttons — I mean that in a good way — and really knows how to do so in the most esthetically magnificent, narratologically adroit, intellectually rich, and filthily transgressive fashion. Periodicals: mid-AprilSaturday 21 April 2012 | Monitor
What's in new issues of Abyss & Apex, Flurb, Ideomancer, Intergalactic Medicine Show, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Mythic Delirium, new YA e-zine Scape, Star*Line, and Subterranean
Notable New UK Books : March - AprilFriday 20 April 2012 | Monitor
Ken MacLeod's Intrusion, Iain Banks' Stonemouth, Russell Hoban's Soonchild, and titles by Brooke, Chadbourn, Harte, Kearney, and Scott
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, mid-AprilThursday 19 April 2012 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of Asimov's, Analog, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Russell Letson reviews Karl SchroederWednesday 18 April 2012 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's April 2012 issue
This is still a grand flying-pirate-ship-chases-and-escapes-and-meetings-with-monsters adventure, and it ends not with a debate or a seminar but with a gigantic zero-gee battle around Candesce, a climactic unmasking and showdown, just desserts, and other satisfying stuff. New Books : 17 AprilTuesday 17 April 2012 | Monitor
New today and in recent weeks: John Barnes' Losers in Space, Elizabeth Hand's Radiant Days, Nalo Hopkinson's The Chaos, and other YA novels by Black, Harland, Hathaway, and Myers; also, Nancy Kress' After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, Elizabeth Bear's ad eternum, Steve Rasnic Tem's Deadfall Hotel, and titles by Dillon, Marques, McMahon, Ore, and Zito
This Week's BestsellersMonday 16 April 2012 | Monitor
Christopher Moore's Sacre Bleu and Anne Tyler's The Beginner's Goodbye debut.
Graham Sleight's Yesterday's Tomorrows: John M. FordSunday 15 April 2012 | Reviews
From the April 2012 issue of Locus Magazine
John M. Ford is one of the easiest writers for the critic to provide a recommendation on: start anywhere, and read. New in Paperback: AprilSaturday 14 April 2012 | Monitor
John Scalzi's Fuzzy Nation, Robert J. Sawyer's WWW: Wonder, Black & Larbalesteir's Zombies vs. Unicorns, and titles by Brust, Buckell, Canavan, Flint, Harris, Jemisin, Modesitt, Patton, Well, and Yolen & Snyder
John Picacio: MultidimensionalFriday 13 April 2012 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's April Issue interview.
Anything can be used to tell a story, not just the limited set of media that I experienced growing up. Those guys completely opened up the gates for me: I realized you can tell stories in a more multidimensional way. Locus Bestsellers, AprilThursday 12 April 2012 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson's Sisterhood of Dune, George R.R. Martin's A Clash of Kings, Jo Walton's Among Others, James Luceno's Star Wars: Darth Plagueis, and Greg Bear's Halo: Primordium.
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Nancy KressWednesday 11 April 2012 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's April 2012 issue
The chief engine of suspense in After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, other than the mystery surrounding the Tesslies themselves, consists of seeing how the three narrative lines eventually converge and complement each other, and Kress handles this with her usual superior craftsmanship and efficiency. New Books : 10 AprilTuesday 10 April 2012 | Monitor
New this week: Samuel R. Delany's Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders, Seth Grahame-Smith's Unholy Night, and titles by Armstrong, Birmingham, Dellamonica, Evenson, Gilman, Johnson, Johnson, Kowal, Maberry, Nicholls, Slattery, and Youers
This Week's BestsellersMonday 9 April 2012 | Monitor
The mass market edition of Charlaine Harris' Dead Reckoning debuts.
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early AprilSunday 8 April 2012 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of Weird Tales, Clarkesworld, Redstone SF, Apex Magazine, Kaleidotrope, and GigaNotoSaurus
Periodicals: late-March to early-AprilSaturday 7 April 2012 | Monitor
What's in new issues of Analog, Apex, Arc, Asimov's, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, Focus, GigaNotoSaurus, Interzone, Lightspeed, The New York Review of SF, Redstone, SF Site, Strange Horizons, and Vector
Brom: Drawn to DarknessFriday 6 April 2012 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's April Issue interview.
As for actual learning to draw, I think it's like most arts: it's in you. You don't even think, 'Can I or can't I do this?' You just jump in and start doing it, and nobody can make you stop. Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, AprilThursday 5 April 2012 | Magazine
April New and Notable books include Jonathan Strahan's latest Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year anthology, and novels and novellas by Ahmed, Bennett, Brandon, Buckell, Cooper, Deas, Kosmatka, Leicht, Novik, Rawn, Renner, Schroeder, Straub, Williams, and Willis.
Faren Miller reviews Melanie RawnWednesday 4 April 2012 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's March 2012 issue
In Touchstone, Melanie Rawn chronicles the formation and wayward path to success of the title group of players, whose form of theater could only exist in a world where the creatures of our fairytale and fantasy have survived to become part of human life and culture... New Books : 3 AprilTuesday 3 April 2012 | Monitor
Released today: Robert J. Sawyer's Triggers, Christopher Moore's Sacre Bleu, Anne Tyler's The Beginner's Goodbye, and singletons by Little and Sigler; series openers by Irvine, Shinn, Viguié, and Wolf; and series sequels by Aguirre, Beaulieu, Drake, Foglio & Foglio, Freer, Grant, Koch, Monk, Smith, Stover, and Zettel. Released earlier: titles by Adams and Wilhelm
This Week's BestsellersMonday 2 April 2012 | Monitor
Suzanne Brockmann's Born to Darkness debuts.
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